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.

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.