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Midway Arcade Treasures 2

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Just buy this great, great thing for Rampage World Tour. I remember playing that classic as a child. That was probably the first game I ever played on the Nintendo 64. Ah, what tight a grip nostalgia has on us.

The games on this piece of gold are as follows,

Rampage World Tour
Mortal Kombat II & 3
Gauntlet II
Pit Fighter
Primal Rage
Hard Drivin'
Kozmik Krooz'r
Narc
Championship Sprint
Cyberball 2072
Spy Hunter II
Arch Rivals
Wacko
Total Carnage
A.P.B.
Wizard of Wor
Timber
Xenophobe
Xybots

This game is an unbelievable value, 20 BUCKS FOR 20, THAT'S RIGHT 20 CLASSIC ARCADE GAMES AND THAT INCLUDES MORTAL KOMBAT II, 3, AND RAMPAGE WORLD F'N TOUR!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What psyched me most about this release was an arcade perfect version of Mortal Kombat 1. ANd yes it has been Taken Out. But don't lose hope. Mortal Kombat Deception Will soon come out and the Kollectors Edition has a bonus disc w/ an arcade exact edition of MK1. The Midway Arcade Treasures 2 release will still rock b/c for 1, it's only $20. For 2, it still has MK2, MK3, Primal Rage, Spy hunter 2, NARC, and a list of other great titles, which will be closer, if not exact to the original arcade release, than any console release before it. Certain Naysayers will hate on this game for no other reason than to complain. for $20, It's an incredible package. i suggest it to anyone who can appreciate great arcade mayhem, or who was alive and playing during the great arcade renaissance of the early nineties. The nostalgic value of this title alone should make it a platinum release. My only Complaint is that they've taken so long to release it. Midway is doing a great job and have done extremely well as pioneers in the field of "totally freakin awesome videogames". buy it, love it, and tell everybody else to buy an atari.

The second installment in Midway's Arcade Treasures series is undoubtadly the best; featuring many games that are still a blast to play, not to mention many games that I myself grew up with and remember quite fondly. Here, we get Mortal Kombat 2 and 3, NARC, Pit Fighter, Rampage World Tour, Total Carnage, Primal Rage, Arch Rivals, and plenty more. It's to be noted now that Mortal Kombat 2 is much harder than I remember it being, but it still looks and plays great, as does 3. NARC is still a smash to play, as is Pit Fighter and the aforementioned games. Cyberball 2072, Xenophobe, and Spy Hunter 2 are solid enough as well, but there are a few duds here as well scattered throughout the gems. Gauntlet 2 (though I was never that much of a fan of Gauntlet to begin with), APB, Championship Sprint, and Hard Drivin' aren't anything to write home about, but the good outweighs the bad here. However, where's the original Mortal Kombat? Or how about Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3? Or Area 51, Maximum Force, or any other light gun shooter for that matter (and there were quite a few), but none of them are here, or on any other Midway compilation for that matter. Oh well, at least we get some of Midway's best games here with this collection. All in all, Midway Arcade Treasures 2 is one of the best retro compilations on the market, and while it does feature some duds, there are some gems thrown in to boot.

When I heard that a compilation game featuring almost arcade- quality ports of MK2 and MK3 was being released, I had to have it- but I didn't have a PS2 to play it on. I now own one, and this compilation of old-school arcade favorites. Out of the 20 games, I've only tried 4, so I'll go through them here.

Championship Sprint- Old-School racing in the tradition of RC Pro-Am and Super Off Road; the camera is directly overhead of the track. Controls are very twitchy and I suspect you'd need a lot of practice before you can make it through a race without hitting the walls.

Hard Drivin'- A 3-D driving simulator; it's somewhat slow and choppy though. The stunt track is fun to drive on & destroy your car.

Mortal Kombat II- the reason I bought the game. It's not nearly as bad as a previous review has made it out to be- the characters are large, colorful and almost arcade quality, especially if you opt to enlarge the screen. Fatalities are easy to pull off thanks to the D-pad, even though you have barely enough time to type them out- and they're just as bloody and noisy as you remember them. Sure, there's some slowdown, and the AI is as cheap and unfair as ever (the computer can throw you even if its character is slipping on one of Sub-Zero's Ground Freezes), but this is as close as you're going to get to arcade-quality Mortal Kombat II without actually having the cabinet in your house.

Mortal Kombat 3- It's a good fighting game, but to me Mortal Kombat peaked with part 2. MK3 introduced the dreaded "dial-a-combo" system, which I admit I kinda liked when I first tried it but it quickly grows tiresome. MK3's fatalities were definitely lamer than its predecessor's as well. Finally, the emulation in this compilation is flawed- for example, the music played at the "Finish Him/Her" screen continues playing even after a fatality is performed.


I'm happy with this game- especially when I remember how psyched I was to be paying almost sixty dollars for the SNES version of MKII 10 years ago- with much smaller characters and vastly compromised sound effects compared with the arcade game.

Seriously, who gives a crap about the original Mortal Kombat? You are getting a ton of really great nostalgic games for 20 BUCKS!

Don't knock it. I spent fifty bucks on Mortal Kombat 3. And if you are reading this review, you probably did also.

Great bang for your buck.

My husband and I wanted some games from when we were younger and it has been a lot of fun and our children are enjoying them to.

Midway Arcade Treasures two takes me back to childhood, to days when we used to swarm to the local arcade, liquor store, or movie theater where video game consoles were available. Difficult games such as Narc, Hard Driving, Mortal Kombat to name a few and you don't need all the quarters in your pocket. definitely a get

To me, the arcade-perfect port of Mortal Kombat II is worth the price alone, I've waited for an arcade-perfect port since I was 10, I had to settle for my SNES version which was excellent, but not perfect, Even the Sega Saturn and Sony PS1 versions lacked in music as well as the sound effects. This is the first time ever that an arcade perfect port of this game has come home, along with 19 other arcade-perfect ports of timeless classics such as Mortal kombat III, Primal Rage, Rampage World tour, Hard drivin' and NARC just to name a few. One of the best deals in gaming!

Product came quickly. Wanted the game for Cyberball 2072, but most of these games are classics.

Series 2 of the Midway Arcade Treasures has 20 games, including:

Mortal Kombat II and 3
Gauntlet II
Spy Hunter II
APB
Arch Rivals
Championship Sprint
Cyberball 2072
Hard Drivin'
Kozmik Krooz'r
NARC
Pit Fighter
Primal Rage
Rampage World Tour
Timber
Total Carnage
Wacko
Wizard of Wor
Xenophobe
Xybots

I've heard of about half these games. I've since tried out most of them. Timber is a nice cute game that involves chopping down trees. It was good to play Championship Sprint and Wizard of Wor again. You probably played a few of these in the arcades back in the "good old days." A nice selection of games that will take you back in time or that you'll discover. For $20 bucks, that's a buck per game. You can't beat that for value for your dollar.