Midway Arcade Treasures 2

by Midway

Product Features

• Run Xybots through deadly mazes, wander with the Wizard of Wor and chop down trees in Timber
• Exciting battle action with Total Carnage, Spy Hunter II and Rampage World Tour
• Head-to-head fighting action in Primal Rage, Pit Fighter and Mortal Kombat 3
• Defeat wave after wave of monsters in Gauntlet II, or clean up the street by obliterating junkies with NARC
• Test drive a high-powered sports car Hard Drivin' -- or guide Kapt. Krooz'r into the mothership while shooting enemies

Product Details

• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B0001Q5SVY
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 5.2 x 0.8 inches ; 4.8 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: July 7, 2006
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #16,788 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

Midway Arcade Treasures 2 brings together the hit games of the arcade, and delivers them to your Xbox! Great gaming and classic action combine in one collection. Play robot football in Cyberball 2072, race F-1 cars in Championship Sprint and go one-on-one on the ball courts with Arch Rivals

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Does *not* work on the Xbox 360!, December 2, 2008

By 

C. Kurtz (Phoenix, AZ United States) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Midway Arcade Treasures 2 (Video Game)

Warning, this is does *NOT* work on the Xbox 360!

I saw a recent nostalgia article on several of the games, and picked up this collection expecting to play it in emulation mode on my 360, and it does work. Now to drag the xbox out of the closet...

12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great collection of old favorites, October 8, 2004

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Chip L "chip1978" (Little Rock, AR) - See all my reviews
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= Durability:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Midway Arcade Treasures 2 (Video Game)

This collection of Midway arcade games includes a lot of classics that haven't seen the light of day for over a decade.

Midway's website lists the following games as appearing on the collection:

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

I was a little disappointed not to see the original spy hunter, or the original mortal kombat. I was also disappointed that Joust is missing from the lineup. The collection remains pretty outstanding - I haven't played NARC since back in the day. So if you're old enough to be playing for nostalgia's sake, this looks to be a pretty good buy.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The price makes this collection of almost-perfect games even better., August 31, 2005

By 

Miketheratguy (Wisconsin, USA) - See all my reviews

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Midway Arcade Treasures 2 (Video Game)

THE SHORT: The ridiculously cheap price is worth spending on some of these games on their own, let alone in a double digit package. But while most of the games run great, there are some slight issues here and there that make some of these games not quite arcade-perfect.

THE LONG: I love Mortal Kombat II. Adore it. I always have, and though the SNES version was great in 1994, no console has ever had an accurate version of it. That's why this was an exciting release- it promised arcade accurate versions of this game as well as a bunch of other good ones. And if you're just thinking about getting this now, then you didn't have to go through the debacle of having the original Mortal Kombat removed from the package and thrown onto the more cost-prohibitive MK: Deception.

So I checked out message boards and waited for the game, and once it came out and I chatted with others, I noticed a disturbing trend: no one console had a release of this collection that was entirely flawless. The PS2 supposedly had trouble with, I believe, Hard Drivin', and the Gamecube had sound problems or something. The Xbox version was supposed to be flawed in some way too, but I honestly can't remember what that was supposed to have been. All I know is that I was a devoted MKII fan to notice some fanboyish inaccuracies. I won't go into them all here, and while there aren't a lot they are noticeable: stuff like flickering shadows when a character jumps, and screams that go on past death when a character lands in the Pit, etc.

But for every thing the programmers somehow messed up, there are ten it gets right. MKII, as with all others on the disc except for the somewhat muffled MK3, has sound so crisp I'd forgotten how much better it was than past console offerings. The graphics are sharp and the colors bold, and the animation is fluid and correct to how I recall it. Nothing is left out, not even something that a great deal of players never knew about MKII: The computer fights more lazily and gets worked into patterns more easily when using controller 2. This strange, small trick, as well as others such as Shang Tsung's Sub Zero freeze/ fatality skin glitch, were emulated perfectly.

But that's the thing- there are still disappointments despite these best intentions. In making the game, someone neglected to re-map the start button. In MKII, pressing start was part of two tricks- selecting a random fighter and accessing hidden character Smoke, but since pressing start in this collection brings up the main pause menu, start is rendered obsolete in-game so apparently these details are inaccessible. That's probably the biggest mistake, and while it doesn't make the package suck, it'd definitely worth mentioning.

Otherwise, the collection is pretty fine. Most of these games are well suited to the Xbox or PS2 controller's simple layout (The GC controller is absurd for the fighting games) and more importantly, the rest of the games seem about the same as I remember them in the arcade. Like with me and MKII, it would take a devoted veteran to notice any changed details that aren't egregious. More so than the original Midway Treasures, this disc has some great titles- 90's classics such as Narc, Primal Rage, Total Carnage, and of course MKII and 3 are on a disc that by this point costs less than twenty bucks. At that price, imperfections and all, it's hard to pass up on such a modern collection of proven greats.