I played Elevator Action on a couple platforms, from the original arcade to the NES and... I think there was an Atari 7800 port of it too.
Nothing was ever quite as good as the arcade but there was something magical about it back in the day regardless of how you were playing it.
Maybe it was just the conceit of going down floors instead of up them like most games have you do.
Thanks for the comment. Sorry for the late reply. Yes, the arcade was always better.