JAKKS Licenses Midway Classics For TV Game

Thanks to Yahoo for reprinting a press release revealing JAKKS Pacific has signed a deal with Midway to produce a standalone 'TV game' based on classic Midway titles. We've recently covered other newly announced titles in the JAKKS TV Games series, including Namco, Activision, and Atari models, and this title "...will feature top-selling Midway games, including Mortal Kombat, Spy Hunter, Rampage, Joust, Defender I & II, Robotron:2084, Marble Madness, Smash TV, Super Sprint and Paperboy", although it's unclear how exactly faithful the conversions will be.

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Re:If they're as crappy as the others...

[Blakey Rat]

Uh. You need to play longer.

I have the Atari stick in my house, and I agree the emulation isn't perfect, but the sound and speed of it are pretty exact to the Atari's. (And yes, I also have an Atari 2600 sitting right next to it. I can put the same game in both and compare.)

The problem is that some of the programs were edited before they were inserted into the emulator. The most mutilated is Adventure, which suffered numerous color changes (one of the dragons is a different color from the original), and the famous 'first easter-egg ever' is completely wrong. (The 'invisible' pixel is quite visible on the screen, and the message has been changed to the word 'text'... as if they forgot to type it in!)

Then again, I can cart this over to a friends house and play in no time at all. The original Atari, *if* they even have an antenna connector, is a pain in the butt to haul around. And it won't plug into my TV without a quality-reducing adaptor because of the antenna connector issue.