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Midway Arcade Treasures 2 Line-up Confirmed

Posted by simoniker on from the please-commence-drool dept.

Thanks to GameSpot for its news story confirming the final line-up for multi-platform retro compilation Midway Arcade Treasures 2. According to the piece: "the compilation will feature 21 ports from the venerable publisher's arcade catalog on a single disc, including A.P.B., Arch Rivals, Championship Sprint, Cyberball 2072, Gauntlet 2, Hard Drivin', Mortal Kombat, Mortal Kombat II, Mortal Kombat III, NARC, Pit Fighter, Primal Rage, Rampage World Tour, Spy Hunter 2, Steel Talons, STUN Runner, Timber, Total Carnage, Wizard of Wor, Xenophobe, Xybots." The compilation, a follow-up to last year's first Treasures compilation, is "priced at $19.99... [and] is scheduled for a fall 2004 release on the Xbox, PlayStation 2, and GameCube."

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  1. Wow, Very Nice by Babbster · · Score: 4, Insightful
    This collection really "does it for me." Not only are there some games here that I loved in the arcade, but some can still chug in MAME today (S.T.U.N. Runner, for example). I'll be particularly interested to see what kind of control scheme they've designed for Steel Talons, given that the arcade version had fancy helicopter controls.

    Of course, what would be super-cool would be if games like Steel Talon and Cyberball 2072 supported either Internet or [Xbox] System Link play. It's obviously not going to happen. It's amazing enough that they're going to be doing high scores on Xbox Live. Adding in actual Internet play would be too costly for games that aren't going to have the huge audience that a fancy newer game would.

    Short version: I'm salivating for these Atari...uhhhhh...Midway classics. :D

  2. Ahh the memories by fr0dicus · · Score: 3, Funny

    This list reminds me very strongly of my old Atari Lynx. Now I just need to power my PS2 with a small inadequate battery to get the full experience.

  3. Hope the game selection menu doesnt suck this time by lightspawn · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The first volume's was horrible. The icons for the games were hieroglyphics and you couldn't tell which game they were for until you moved the cursor to them and waited for a second for the thing to display a title screen where the title would finally be readable.

    Does anybody know which company is developing this? According to the article it's "N/A" which isn't terribly helpful.

  4. Re:Too little, too late. by Mike+Hawk · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Slashdotter c.2002: We are justified in downloading retro games for free because they are not available at market! We should pass the Public Domain Enhancement Act!

    Retro games start to be released at very low prices as parts of nice compilations...

    Slashdotter c.2004: We need to pass the Public Domain Enhancement Act IMMEDIATELY to stop these tyrants from selling their products! My rationalizations for infringing other people's copyrights are slowly dwindling and my sense of entitlement has grown too strong to rethink my position! I demand everything for free, boohoo.