[.ca] Midway Arcade Treasures

Arcade Freaks Rejoice!:
Midway Arcade Treasures Rated T: Blood and gore, Violence Price: $19.95 Just Listen! In Midway Arcade Treasures, play all your favorites including: 720 Degrees (Root) Beer Tapper Joust I & II Defender I & II SpyHunter Klax Toobin The PaperBoy Satan's Hollow Smash TV and over 10 more! How did Midway get all this crammed into 1 package? Developer Digtal Eclipse has a technology called Arcade Eclipse that makes arcade games come in a package. Oh, I love the DVD content and I love to see top-secret documents, including sell sheets and operation manuals (Atari gaames only). This is your piece of arcade in your own room. You will still have room for furniture, and you won't spend megabucks on arcade machines. Oh, and with the price on this baby, you will be saving quarters by the millions. (That T rating? It comes from the gore in Smash TV only.)

Ahh, memories...:
This is an awesome collection of classic games, 24 in all. Midway has rounded up some of the best arcade games from the 1980s and packaged them together in this spectacular collection. The great thing about this pack is that there is something that appeals to almost everyone here, and, even if you don't really care about all of the games, the price is low enough to justify gettting the collection for just a few of them! Some of these games have a great deal of memories for me. I remember playing Rampage, Rampart, and Smash TV at the arcades for hours on end. The games I was most addicted to were probably Gauntlet and Spy Hunter. These 4 games are still a lot of fun, and with the multiplayer capabilities are a blast. I played many of the others as well--720, Toobin', Marble Madness--in the arcades, but these games have lost much of their appeal to me now. Some of these games aren't really that fun anymore (like the last three I named), but I'm still glad I have them. Every time one of my buddies comes over, we play many of the games, laugh, and reminisce. In fact, I don't know that I'll really be spending hours on end with ANY of these games (even Gauntlet can't hold my attention forever anymore), but they are nevertheless entertaining for a few minutes or even an hour. Again, having 24 games makes it all worth it. The one complaint--Joust. I absolutely loved the two player "deathmatches" in the original Nintendo release, but I can't get that to work on this version. What a shame. Despite this, though, this is a great collection of games which, though it may not be the smash hit of 2003, is nevertheless very enjoyable.

Some of my Favorite Midway Games!:
I remember going to the local 7-11 Store and playing Root-Beer Tapper(Which was named Beer Tapper at the time)! I even bought the home version for the old ColecoVision when it came out. It's great to be able to play some of these old school games again like: Root Beer Tapper Toobin' PaperBoy Marble Madness Defender 1 & II And many more! I also liked the little video interviews with the games creators. They tell how they created the games for the arcades... How they had to rush to get a game ready for the video game arcade shows (Which was kind of like the E3 video game conventions they have now). The only thing I found a little disappointing was the low volume sound for the games. I had to turn the volume way up on my home theater system just to hear the sound properly, but other than that the games are GREAT! So if you are old enough to remember going into the arcades as a teen in the 80's and spending a ton of quarters on these games... Then you will LOVE this game! and for the price it's being offered at... How can you not want to add this to your collection of classic old school games? Grab a copy today!

Finally Arcade Classics done in the right way:
Arcade games have been done though out all the game systems. Though Nintendo, Sega, and Sony have done them though out their history of old systems but really have not done them well. Most don't have many good games on one game pack or disc. like five at a time then two games are good and one really sucks. Then comes Midway Arcade Treasures for all three next generation systems. I am writting this for the Nintendo Gamecube version. I have not had more fun on a Arcade Games at home since I was a kid playing Roadblasters in the Arcades. All of these games are done great. frame rate are good. sound is good and the gameplay of the controller lay out is a little different but still does great on a gamecube controller. 24 games on one disc means less than a dollar a game (I bet you spent more than that on one game playing it in the arcades going at Defender or Gauntlet). Then they put in some of the great classic Arcade Games like Defender, Joust, Gauntlet and Root Beer Tapper. They put in some challenge games in like Paperboy, Marble Madness and Klax. My all time favorite is Roadblasters made in the middle 80's. it smashes Spy Hunter (which is in this game) and a old game on the NES called Rad Racer together. If you remember the good old days of games that had good game play and great replay value. Then it is a must. If you are a new gamer that wonders what was it like back in the past. You then need to find out. All of you will be tired and fingers will be sore. Best of all won't have to wait in line for to play these games and play out in ALOT in quarters to get far in the games. Enjoy this one you dont find these games very often.

A great collection of classic games:
Midway sure crammed in alot of great classic games into one package for 20 dollars (do the math - you're talking less then a dollar a game - how can you go wrong?) Some of the games haven't aged that well and the controlls take a little getting used to but complaints like that are pretty petty considering everything your getting. If you're not able to enjoy games which aren't graphically cutting edge then obviously look elsewhere. However if you're looking for a great collection of classic games there isn't a better purchase you can make. My personal favorites are Spy Hunter, Paperboy and Joust but just about every game in this collection is worth playing at least once or twice. Grab up a copy and have some old school fun. How many games today can you play in 15 minute sessions and still feel satisfied?