It's a nice idea, and overall I think it has value...
...Except I think your catagory of graphics is kind of unfair. Defender is the perfect example, it would appear on many people's top 10 arcade games ever lists, and at one time it was revolutionary for it's graphics, but your scoring system doesn't reflect it as such.
This is going to be true of many titles, some of the greatest gameplay examples ever released in Arcades are going to fall short in your list because they were early age games.
To be honest, if we were to aggregate a "Top 10 arcade games ever" list, by the scoring system you're using, most of those titles would fall in the middle because of their dated graphics.
I respectfully suggest you might want to consider removing the catagory, or removing it from the overall score of the game to a secondary column with a different scoring method. The latter would still let those concerned with flash pick games by flash, and those concerned with gameplay pick the games that are just downright fun to play even if they're very dated.
Plus, your rating system will fail over time. At some point, the graphics you give 5's to now will be regarded as 1's because technology has surpassed them as it did Defender. Graphics in this relation is very arbitrary and eventually time will give every game in the list a 1 for that catagory.
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