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Midway's Greatest Arcade Hits, Volume 1

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I admit it. When I was growing up, I used to spend hours and hours either in front of my Atari 2600 or down at the arcade, playing Joust, Defender, and my other favorites. I don't know how many quarters I wasted during these pursuits.

This Nintendo 64 game brings back the fun! I sat down with my boyfriend and 12 year old and played for HOURS, becoming quickly addicted to my old favorites, Joust and Defender. My boyfriend is a huge Spy Hunter fan, which my son also loved. We quickly got the hang of Tapper and Robotron. Even the trivia quiz that's included is fun.

The games are all set up like the original arcade versions, with the exact same graphics, and as close to the same controls as you can get. Use a smoke screen to kill of your spy's enemies, avoid the pterodactyl in Joust, catch those little falling humans in defender. The games are the same, the sounds are the same, and the addiction level is the same.

However, now you can play for hours on end for "FREE" in the comfort of your own living room, and share it with your friends and family! Best of all, you can WIPE the entire high scoring board with your name and then challenge them to beat you! Bwah hah hah hah hah ...

A must-have for anyone who loves these games, or wants to see what all the fun was about!

Save your quarters and BUY THIS GAME! I have been waiting for this game since they ripped the Root Beer Tapper machine out of my local bowling alley in 1985. Funny thing is, I was still attached to the machine as they rolled it away. My cries of "NO!,ONE MORE GAME!" echoed up and down the bowling lanes. I was the kid who went to the bowling alley and the roller rink to play video games. I could not possibly care less about the people around me, the horrible 80's music blaring in the background, or my friend's birthday party. Yes, I am disturbed. A product of a time long forgotten, almost. Please buy this game if you want 6 extremely addictive, easy to learn but never boring games. This game will not require a "strategy guide" that will cause you to shell out [more money] either! I applaud the creators of this game for their hard work in restoring some true classics. You will not be disappointed, especially if you liked Namco Museum 64. I personally am going to keep my Nintendo 64 just because of this game. Of course, there will be [people] claiming that it can never TRULY be the same again but do not listen. If you were there and you do TRULY remember these games you will be very pleased. Last week my younger brother's friend said I listened to "Dinosaur Rock" and still played "Joust". He could not be more right.

Forget updated 3D graphics and dishonestly expanded storylines! Look elsewhere for video cheesecake and Saturday morning spinoffs! Instead, pull on your favorite Le Tigre shirt, crease a pair of matching colored Lees, slide into a pair of shell-toe Adidas and prepare yourself for an old school time warp complete with cramped and blistered thumbs 'cause this collection rocks! I poured more quarters than I care to remember into the original versions of Robotron 2084, Defender and Joust - three of my all-time favorites - and their faithful reproductions here make it well worth the cost of entry. Add the cartoonish Root Beer Tapper and Spy Hunter, as well as Sinistar (never even heard of this one!) and the Arcade Trivia game (another extra that will test your memory of those glorious quarter-munching days of yore) and you've got a family heirloom! Now, if only I could find an original version of Berzerk...

This game is the best ever!! My personal favorite game is Spy hunter but I still like root beer taper and sinistar. Anyone that tells you this game is boring is VERY WRONG. I like the quiz that they threw in with all the questions they have. Every chanch I get I play this game it's so fun.

These games are a wonderful reminder of a time when games were games and not insipid role playing mush. These games take actual skill and hand/eye co-ordination to win. You won't find solution manuals for these. The rules are simple and the games are tough. I highly recommend this. Grab them while they're still around.

at the arcade my friend greg and i used to get over a million on robotron 2084...at that point it is almost a subconscious state that allows you to shred through all the invaders ..while pissed off dudes waiting to play would get our game when we were through and lose quickly... . I wasnt so good at defender or joust but greg mastered those too...on the nintendo 64 version you can hook up two controllers and play with the joysticks...AND YOU CAN PAUSE IT! this is a must for all you early 80s arcade freaks.

Get MAME32 on the windows platform. It runs the actual arcade roms you knew and loved from the '80s - AND IT's FREE!

Currently is emulates about 1400 old arcade classics.

I'm always looking around on ebay and at malls to find anything with the game spy hunter. i only know 1 place that still has it as the arcade version, but then i went there and it was gone. i was so mad until i read my new nintendo power magazine about this game. i was looking threw all the games it had and there it was, Spy Hunter!!! the next day i grabbed $30 and bought the game. It is amazing that this game is so cheep, it should be like $64. if u hav $30 and u want the old classics and not those new "if u liked them, try us" games than buy this