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Midway Arcade Treasures Announced 57

Posted by simoniker from the much-much-retro-goodness dept.
Thanks to an anonymous reader for pointing to The Magic Box's item indicating that Midway are publishing a PS2/Xbox/GameCube title called Midway Arcade Treasures this fall. According to the site, "..the compilation will contain the following classic arcade games: Spy Hunter, Defender II, Gauntlet, Joust, Paperboy, Rampage, Marble Madness, Robotron 2084, Smash TV, Joust 2, Bubbles, Road Blasters, Rampart, Sinistar, Super Sprint, 720, Toobin', Klax, Splat!, Satan's Hollow and Vindicators. In addition, the compilation will include interviews with the creators and developers of these games."
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  • Controller problems (Score:4, Insightful)

    by GreatDrok ( 684119 ) on Thursday July 03, 2003 @03:19AM (#6356549) Journal
    I bought the Atari Anniversary playstation disc a while back thinking it would be great to be able to play the games included such as Missile Command. However, the PS controller is simply not suited to these games and made them all but unplayable. I hope in these conversions they do a better job. I expect you really need an arcade style controller to play these games properly.
    • My problems with the Atari anniversery edition (drem cast)were two fold.

      1) the resolution change caused most games to be unplayable (I could not see the lines well enough). I was playing through a TV card on a monitor, so that could have been some of it.

      2) The technology was just too old. Only a few of the games were playable at all.

      Of course I am a youngun so I had no nastalga for these games.

      That said, I have Midway volumes 1 and 2 for the Dreamcast, and they are great. I still play them often, and
    • Yeah, it'll be interesting to see how Marble Madness makes the transition; I remember that game as being pretty challenging with the trackball. I can't imagine what it will be like without it.
    • However, the PS controller is simply not suited to these games and made them all but unplayable. I hope in these conversions they do a better job

      Some of these games do not translate well to the Ps style controllers but some, Robotron 2084 in particular will translate especially well I think, using each of the analog controllers to simulate the 2 joysticks from the machine version.

      Other like SpyHunter and RoadBlaster will probably translate well, provided they are set up for them, to steering control
      • Agreed -- I'm getting this BECAUSE of the PS2 controller. MAME is good and all, but it's really difficult to play a game like Roadblasters with the arrow keys or your mouse, and dual analog control of Robotron sounds too sweet for words. (It'd also mean less frenetic wear 'n tear on my X-Arcade.) They're offering more than the usual four or five games, done properly on a real game controller, and with bonus materials. As long as it's not fifty bucks, I'm sold. This sounds as groovy as the Activision Anthol

        • Re:Controller problems (Score:2, Informative)

          by iainl ( 136759 )
          Get yourself to Lik-Sang or an equivalent sharpish, if thats why you're interested. Lots of online places do PS2 to USB converters; there are even ones that will allow you to use up to four PS2 pads as four joysticks on the PC.

          The enhancement this brings to playing the likes of Gauntlet are pretty immense, obviously.
  • This is excellent! Finally a good compilation that is worth spending money on. Most others only include a few games. Midway has done a good job of providing a variety of games from the early 80's to 1990. Smash TV on the PS2 DualShock controller will be so much fun!
  • I want 200 on a CD dammit. Otherwise I'll be paying for copies of the same shit on different CDs. Or I'll have to buy 7 discs just to get one game from each that I want.

    Since when is the game industry as stupid as the recording industry?
  • I'm thinking that Rampart alone will justify the purchase of this one... Mmmmm...Castles...
    • Oh my god.

      I have played *EVERY* home version of Rampart ever produced. They are:

      * NES (surprisingly good, though the sound could be better)
      * Famicom (second NES-hardware version, by Konami, Japan only!, strange version without ships. In one whole difficulty level your "castle" is freakin' Little Red Riding Hood!)
      * Gameboy (Also strange in that Japanese way. No ships. You choose a character at the start and fire your cannons at knights and "siege towers.")
      * Gameboy Color (different version) (Reasonably

  • It's about time... (Score:5, Interesting)

    by neostorm ( 462848 ) on Thursday July 03, 2003 @04:27AM (#6356736)
    Someone mentioned this not having enough games on it to warrant a purchase, but I have to point out that the majority of these useless "classics" CDs have usually been equipped with no more than 5-8 games, tops. This is a huge improvment over that.

    I'll just go back to my 3000+ MAME collection now...

    Now that I think about it. Maybe classic game publishers should try setting up a central game portal where old ROMs cam be downloaded for $1 each or some-such. They would probably make a bit more profit, and they woulnd't have to screw people over continuously with these repeated re-releases of 10-20 year old games.

    It worked somewhat for the music biz... Somewhat.

    • Uhmm.. (Score:1)

      by Kwil ( 53679 )
      ..how are they screwing people over?

      You don't want it, don't buy it.
      You want it, well hey, they certainly should be allowed to profit off of that by providing it.

      Personally, I won't be purchasing this but only because I don't have a console system. Now if they released it for PC, I'd be dropping my money on this collection in a heartbeat.

      Yeah, I can get all the MAME's, but that's not the point. The point is using your dollar to encourage quality.

  • Thank Activision Anthology (Score:3, Insightful)

    by Kris_J ( 10111 ) on Thursday July 03, 2003 @04:42AM (#6356772) Homepage Journal
    Before that classics were released in "sets" of maybe four or five. Now we're seeing collections of 20 to 40. Mind you, most of the titles listed have been [gamefaqs.com] made [gamefaqs.com] available [gamefaqs.com] in recent [gamefaqs.com] compilations
    • C'mon though, 21 games is good, except when you consider that they are likely to be about 1Mb each, and a DVD can typically hold 5Gb. I'm being quite serious here, I want the compilation to have 5000 games on it (essentially every game for the old old school platforms). I'd pay, I dunno, US$250? for a compilation like this. Think about it. 1DVD with ALL of your old favourites on it. These 21 game are old and cool, but not really worth getting when you consider that there are other means of acquiring them (
  • Didn't they also make Dig Dug and Mr. Do? I think they should offer a complete set of games instead of this (although I would be very happy to play these anyway).

  • Best comp. ever. (Score:3, Interesting)

    by CashCarSTAR ( 548853 ) on Thursday July 03, 2003 @08:10AM (#6357284)
    Seriously. That is too much old-school goodness in one package. Everything from Gauntlet to Rampart to Smash TV.

    Hell, I'd buy it for those games alone.

    Now, 20 games in one package. I'm glad that someone got serious about re-relesing their games. With any luck, this will bring on a storm of quality packages of older games, rather than the 4 game stupidness.

    • Smash TV, on a GameCube, where you have one stick to move and the small C-stick to fire... Where do I sign up? That alone makes me want it.
      • Agreed, provided that you can pump in as many "quarters" as you please. If you only get a certain number of continues, I'll never even get past the first boss...

        That's what these reissues are really for, so you can finally beat all the games you would've needed a US Mint's worth of quarters to beat when you were a kid...
  • what we need is a smash tv mod for Quake / HL / Unreal. same top view camera, same gameplay, same everything that made the original a classic, just updated with a new graphics engine.

    i hate it when companies ruin classic games by changing the fundamentals of what made them work, this is especially evident in 2d - 3d 'transitions'. certain games were just better suited to 2d, like platformers. a big part of mario died when it went to 3d. but zelda on the otherhand was enhanced (since it was really a 2.5

  • Gauntlet ought to be fun especially multi-player, but c'mon, where's StarGate?
  • Until I can get around to building a MAME cab., this is the next best thing.

    By the way, if you're looking for more great retro gaming on your PS2, get the Activision Anthology [activision.com] (go to that site and you'll have "The Safety Dance" stuck in your head all day). Plus, I think it's dirt cheap now. Over 45 games, classic commercials. Tons o' fun.

  • On second thought... (Score:2, Interesting)

    by Tink2000 ( 524407 )
    Unfortunately, the cynic in me makes me wonder if this revival is not just an attempt to make more money off of something that is ~20 years old, but also to discredit the abandonware theory, and also to crimp the style (and sharpen the legal axe) of MAMErs...
    • But it is not appropriate that since this is being distributed commercially, it reaffirms that these particular games are again viable commercial products and should be respected as such?

      I'm not saying that their emulation needs to be ripped out of MAME, but it would seem appropriate to discontinue distributing these ROMs. As long as the copyright holder is distributing them, it is improper for others to do so.

      I can think of no reasonable justification for continuing to infringe on the copyrights of thes
  • I will so definitely be picking this up for my Gamecube! I bought the original Midway Arcade Classics for the PC back when it came out, with the 6 games it has on it, and played it a lot.

    This does so much better, with so many more games, and the Gamecube control should work wonders with most of these. Even Marble Madness should be decent, since we've already seen what can be done in that vein with Super Monkey Ball.

    Absolutely lovely - I look forward to an evening of Robotron on a 27 inch TV with the ste
  • Who cares about those game? They've been sitting on Marble Madness II (Marble Man) since 1991.

    Why don't they release *that* ROM on the disc?

    http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?game_id=8619 &l etter=M
  • I'd much rather have these games for my Gameboy Advance rather than for a sit-at-home console. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy my PS2 and GC, but I'd rather have a cool collection of arcade games for a mobile form factor.
  • This is an excellent collection, but I wish Midway would/could include "Tron" and/or "Discs of Tron".
  • 1942, the best arcade airplane shooter ever... It was Midway right?
  • Oh, wow! This is probably the first "museumware" disc I've ever really wanted - The big names are all there...Joust, Robotron2084, Defender 2 (uh...isn't that...Stargate?) and little known classics like Toobin' (loved it in HS) and Roadblasters and Vindicators! Bring it on!

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