Midway Arcade Treasures

by Midway

Product Features

• Includes over 20 Arcade Games
• Teen Rated

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0000AHOYR
• Product Dimensions: 7.2 x 5.2 x 0.5 inches ; 3.2 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: November 17, 2003
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (35 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,233 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
  • #7 in Video Games > PlayStation 2 > Arcade
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Playstation 2

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

35 of 35 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect translations, culutre shock and no quarters, November 23, 2003

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Scott Woods (Columbus, Ohio United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Midway Arcade Treasures (Video Game)

My youth has returned!

Many of the games I had to stand in line at the arcade to play and then was slaughtered by in 60 seconds flat are contained on this 20+ game compilation of old arcade hits (and misses): Robotorn 2084, Rampage, Joust (1 & 2), Defender (1 & 2), Smash TV...just great stuff abounds. Of course, there are some clunkers, but hey: it was the 80s.

The translations here are frighteningly faithful: the graphics, sound and general play of the controls is dead-on (except for maybe "Marble Madness", but if you have a ball controller instead of buttons and joysticks, you're back in action). There was some element of culture shock once I got started playing these on the PS2 (it boggles the mind how few buttons you need to play any of these games as opposed to the thumb-wracking madness of today's offerings), and the game overall feels like a big cheat code since you don't have to stop playing just because you ran out of quarters. Just hit the start button and you're back where you were, fighting the big bosses...indefinitely.

A classic made up of classics. And at the price, you really can't go wrong, period.

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best Anthology available for PS2, July 23, 2004

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Mitchell M. Tse "mitchelltse" (Antioch, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

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

What many people don't take into consideration is that this anthology blows the other anthologies and compilations away. The sheer number of games (20), the number of good games (at least half of them were favorites), and the level of faithfulness these ports are to the original games (very good as well), makes this collection absolutely incredible. Games like Vindicators, Road Blasters, Rampage, and Gauntlet look exactly like they did in the arcades. The sounds were straight out of the games. Additionally, the difficulty level was able to be changed, just like an owner can in the arcades. Finally, one feature that really helped was that most of the games allowed you to continue, some of them indefinitely, so for some of those games that you chugged a lot of quarters in, not just because you wanted to play those games, but because you wanted to FINISH those games, you now can!

The only imperfection to this gameset is that it doesn't allow you to use a steering wheel. Man, being able to use one for Road Blasters and Spy Hunter would have been excellent.

All this leads to Midway Arcade Classics II, which comes out in late fall of 2004, which sounds just as good as this one! Same low price, too!

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Some games are lost in translation, but still a nice collection, August 31, 2006

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N. Durham "Big Evil" (Philadelphia, PA) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars 

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

Midway's first Arcade Treasures collection features 24 of Midway's most well known old school games. The most well known games in this collection that you'll find are Spy Hunter, Gauntlet, Defender 1 & 2, Joust 1 & 2, Paperboy, Rampage, Robotron, Smash TV, Sinistar, 720, and Klax; but thanks to the control scheme of the PS2, a number of games get lost in translation. Take Spy Hunter for example. Using both analog sticks, most of the shoulder buttons, and a few of the face buttons, the game is almost unplayable. 720 and Road Blasters nearly suffer the same fate, and other games like Root Beer Tapper, Satan's Hollow, Rampart, and Super Sprint just aren't much fun to play. However, despite all the negatives, there are a few real gems here that are still great to play. The bad control scheme that I mentioned earlier is nearly perfect for Smash TV and Robotron, while Paperboy, Rampage, Marble Madness, Klax, Sinistar, and the Joust and Defender games are still great to this day. There's some bonuses here, including histories of the games and interviews with the developers (the history of Smash TV in particular is good and fun to watch) which are nice to have, and if you remember any of these games fondly this is a nice collection to have, but there are better retro game sets out there as well.