Midway Arcade Treasures Deluxe Edition

Midway Arcade Treasures Deluxe Edition
Developer(s)	Midway
Publisher(s)	Midway EU Zoo Digital Publishing
Platform(s)	PC
Release date(s)	NA February 17, 2006 PAL March 17, 2006
Genre(s)	Compilation
Mode(s)	Single player, multiplayer
Rating(s)	ESRB: Everyone to Mature PEGI: 3+ to 12+
Media/distribution	CD-ROM

Midway Arcade Treasures Deluxe Edition is an arcade compilation released exclusively for the PC on February 17, 2006 in North America, and on March 17, 2006 in PAL regions. It is a compilation of Midway Arcade Treasures 2 and Midway Arcade Treasures 3, which had both been previously released on consoles only. Unlike the previous two volumes, it includes the original Mortal Kombat. In the two months after its release, two official patches were released for the collection, one to fix missing music for half of the games that was accidentally left out of the shipped version, and a second one to correct a button function oversight that prevented Random Select and Smoke battle easter eggs in Mortal Kombat II (these were bugs that plagued the console versions of Midway Arcade Treasures 2). A few pieces of additional artwork for Wizard of Wor and Primal Rage were made available as supplements on the Midway website. Like the previous release, the Deluxe Edition came under harsh criticism regarding the Primal Rage content which was censored and improperly coded from the original Arcade ROM source.

Games

• APB
• Arch Rivals
• Badlands
• Championship Sprint
• Cyberball 2072
• Gauntlet II
• Hard Drivin’
• Kozmik Krooz’r
• Hydro Thunder
• Mortal Kombat
• Mortal Kombat II
• Mortal Kombat 3
• NARC
• Offroad Thunder
• Pit-Fighter
• Primal Rage
• Race Drivin
• Rampage World Tour
• San Francisco Rush 2049
• San Francisco Rush the Rock: Alcatraz Edition
• S.T.U.N. Runner
• Super Off Road with bonus Track-Pak
• Timber
• Total Carnage
• Wacko
• Wizard of Wor
• Xenophobe
• Xybots

Reception

Midway Arcade Treasures Deluxe Edition received mixed to slightly positive reviews with an average score 70.71% on GameRankings. Major criticisms include the installation procedure as not user-friendly, misleading information about the set being a "Deluxe" set, when in actuality, the Deluxe Edition set is really a repackaged bundle that consists of volumes 2 and 3 of Midway Arcade Treasures in one set, missing audio on most games, for the control setup being a "hassle", "blurry" graphics and the inclusion of a censored version of Primal Rage which was improperly coded from the original Arcade ROM source.

External links

• Midway Arcade Treasures: Deluxe Edition media and information archive at Total Mortal Kombat