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Midway Arcade Treasures 
The first edition cover art for Midway Arcade Treasures.
The re-release cover art, designed to match that of the later volumes in the Midway Arcade Treasures series.
Developer(s) Digital Eclipse, Backbone Entertainment Publisher(s) Midway, ZOO Digital Publishing Platform(s) PS2, Xbox, GameCube, PC Release date(s) Genre(s) Compilation Mode(s) Single-player, multiplayer Rating(s) Media/distribution DVD, Nintendo optical disc Midway Arcade Treasures is a collection of 24 arcade games developed by Digital Eclipse and released by Midway for the GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox and PC.
A second collection, Midway Arcade Treasures 2, was released for the same consoles in October 2004 and a third console compilation, Midway Arcade Treasures 3 was released in September 2005, except for the PC. Midway Arcade Treasures: Extended Play, a compilation of 21 select titles from the first and second volumes was released for the PSP. On February 17, 2006 Midway Arcade Treasures Deluxe Edition was released exclusively for the PC, containing all 28 games from Midway Arcade Treasures 2 and Midway Arcade Treasures 3, plus the original Mortal Kombat.
The compilation plays similarly on all three consoles, however the Xbox version has the extra ability to upload scores to an on-line scoreboard. The special features on each version of the game are the same. These include game histories, developer interviews and other documents. This compilation is a combination of the games included in "Williams Arcade's Greatest Hits", "Midway's Greatest Arcade Hits", and "Arcade Party Pak" for the original PlayStation and PC and each contain exactly the same extras from those collections. Additionally, there are eleven more games included that are not found in those collections.
This game was later rereleased as "Midway Arcade Treasures 1", the title and packaging being changed slightly to match the second and third games in the series. Despite this, the games themselves remain the same.
In the UK, distribution of the compilation was handled by ZOO Digital Publishing (now Zushi Games).
This game is currently not Xbox 360 compatible.
Contents
Games
The collection consists of the following 24 arcade games:
- 720°, released in 1986
- Blaster, released in 1983
- Bubbles, released in 1983
- Defender, released in 1980
- Defender II aka StarGate, released in 1981
- Gauntlet, released in 1985
- Joust, released in 1982
- Joust 2: Survival of the Fittest, released in 1986
- Klax, released in 1989
- Marble Madness, released in 1984
- Paperboy, released in 1984
- Rampage, released in 1986
- Rampart, released in 1990
- RoadBlasters, released in 1987
- Robotron: 2084, released in 1982
- Root Beer Tapper, released in 1984
- Satan's Hollow, released in 1982
- Sinistar, released in 1982
- Smash TV, released in 1990
- SPLAT!, released in 1982
- Spy Hunter, released in 1983
- Super Sprint, released in 1986
- Toobin', released in 1988
- Vindicators, released in 1988
Reception
Midway Arcade Treasures received mixed, but slightly positive reviews with a 75.31% for the GameCube version, 73.86% for the PlayStation 2 version, and 75.02% for the Xbox version. Criticisms are the poor menu layout, slowdown in Smash TV, for the documentaries and interviews having video quality that is grainy and unrestored, as well as the documentaries and interviews being rehashed from previous Midway collections.
See also
External links
Categories:- 2003 video games
- Nintendo GameCube games
- Midway Games
- Windows games
- PlayStation 2 games
- Xbox games
- Video game collections
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