Midway Arcade Treasures Announced

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."

Comments

Controller problems

[GreatDrok]

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.

Re:Controller problems

[iainl]

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.

Lord, no I don't want a stack of oldies CDs

[Rares Marian]

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?

It's about time...

[neostorm]

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.

Thank Activision Anthology

[Kris_J]

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 made available in recent compilations

Best comp. ever.

[CashCarSTAR]

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.

Re:Warrior needs food -- BADLY!

[Mogomra]

It's there. Stargate's name was changed to Defender II for home versions. The KLOV entry is here.

On second thought...

[Tink2000]

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...