Midway Arcade Treasures 2

Kevin M · 10-26-2004, 07:51 PM

I just bought this last night & I have to say that it has brought back so many memories....some good some not so good but they're memories OK!?!

N.A.R.C. Good god this was a hyper bizarre distinctly Reagan era game but you gotta love the FBI warning not to do drugs just before you mercilessly blow everyone away and nab all the money & drugs they drop...

Pit Fighter...the first game to feature digitized photo based characters...crappy game but nonetheless it brings me back to the 7-Eleven on Gravios & Jefferson in St. Louis where me & my friends would spend hours playing this and N.A.R.C....man it was a lousy game then too actually.

Wizard of WOR...wow listen to that highly advanced voice feature....I keep waiting for it to say "would you like to playyy a gaaame?

Hard Drivin'...there was a time when our eyes bugged at how advanced this game looked...then again there was a time when Disco was a hit...

Primal Rage...Hey I liked the game ok?

Mortal Kombat 2 & 3...I was never a big fan of these games but they are here.

Timber....never heard of it...it's actually kind of fun though.

ZYBOTS...never heard of this one either but it also is pretty fun.

Spy Hunter 2...worst game sequel ever made...pure crap then and now.

Total Carnage...now this one I definitely remember and it is still fun as hell.

Many others but if you are interested in these classic and not so classic games I recommend it, for roughly a buck a game it is a bargain for those who remember these games in their heyday....and maybe curious younger gamers too.

PerryD · 10-27-2004, 09:38 AM

I was very disappointed when Stun Runner and Steel Talons dropped off from the initial list of games included with this set, although I'm glad one of my all-time favorites, APB is on this set.

Kevin M · 10-27-2004, 01:19 PM

The funny thing about playing these games now is that you can see the design in the games that was purely intended to suck quarters out of you....the main intent of any arcade game of course but my point is that in Games like Total Carnage when you finally get to the first Boss it is actually laughable how difficult...hell, impossible...it would be to get through this boss without loads of cash on hand...I remember thinking this "back in the day" at the time I was playing it but with a few friends on hand to spread the cost we still shelled out a good 20$ between us to get as far as we did....a bargain...I suppose that is why I gradually stopped going to arcades after I turned 18...well that and girls...and cars...and...a life.

DaveBB · 10-27-2004, 04:57 PM

Are these the direct ports with no changes from the arcade version?

I loved NARC: spent tons of money trying to get to the boss at the end.

Kevin M · 10-27-2004, 05:46 PM

They don't seem to be changed but I can't swear to it & there are a few bugs in some of the games, some are discussed HERE,
this is the general skinny from that review (I underlined what bugs I have personally seen in the game):

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An arcade game compilation lives and dies by its accuracy to the original games, and it's here where Midway Arcade Treasures isn't quite what it could have been. The Xbox version seems to be the best at keeping up, though on all platforms, Mortal Kombat II has flickery shadows and Mortal Kombat 3 has flickery shadows and muffled sound. In Mortal Kombat 3, music continues playing during and after a fatality, which just sounds sloppy, and more importantly, it isn't accurate to the arcade original. Wacko is missing some sounds. Also, there appears to be something weird going on in all three versions of Hard Drivin', because in a couple of instances our car freaked out, lifted into the air, spun around a few times, and then blew up. As you go down to the PlayStation 2 and GameCube, you'll notice some frame rate trouble here and there, even in the oldest game of the bunch, Wizard of Wor. Also, on the PS2, Hard Drivin' is significantly slower, Pit Fighter runs strangely faster than it should, and MK3's sound is even more muffled and irritatingly trebly. The GameCube versions of MKII and MK3 keep up reasonably well, but the GameCube's button configuration simply isn't well suited for either game. Additionally, Wizard of Wor on the GameCube plays all the wrong sound effects, and some games look slightly blocky when compared to the other two versions. While these all sound like nitpicky issues, this is a package of games for people who want the original games in their original state. And Midway Arcade Treasures 2 comes close, but it doesn't quite meet that goal.

Aside from the aforementioned glitches, the games in the package mirror their arcade counterparts well. The graphics and sound are right on, and more often than not, the games run at the proper speed. Kosmik Krooz'r even manages to mimic the spinning ship model that was reflected onto the arcade game's screen to give it a unique look. The sound is, by and large, just fine, too, and the games control pretty well.

:as he said, apart from some glitches these are pretty much good/accurate ports...as far as I can remember from years ago at least.

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