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Limited to nostalgia

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: April 12, 2006
Author: Amazon User

First, please note that this game DOES NOT include Moon Patrol! I bought it for that game. Hopefully the Amazon site will update the description.

Some of the games are still fun 20 years later, but some are just so dated that it's hard to get into them. The graphics are REALLY lame compared to today! But of course, we buy this for nostalgia value, and that is what you get. As far as I can tell, these are perfect replica's of the 80's games.Great time killers and no more losing fist fulls of quarters!

Some games are lost in translation, but still a nice collection

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: August 31, 2006
Author: Amazon User

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.

What looks like gold does not glitter like it.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: February 23, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Good to average material here. Graphics are little light at times to see clearly. Maybe if I had a larger screen television, the graphics would be better compensated. Disc comes with a lot of material or games but I personally only play about half of them.

More obscure games than what I used to enjoy; however, some people may enjoy that because they may not be offered with any other package disc like this one. The price was also reasonably fair for all of these games.

Navigating through this disc was quite different than others I have used; however, with lots of games comes several different steps or levels to pursue.

Time Machine back to the 80's

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 13 / 15
Date: January 05, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Wow, this DVD/CD came as a surprise to me. I happened to read a preview of it in a game magazine recently and HAD TO GET IT. I'd been thinking of picking up one of the Playstation One "Midway Arcade Classic" CD's (which cost an arm and a leg) for Robotron, Sinistar, and a few others.

Instead, for $20, I get all the ones I wanted....and THEN SOME.

I haven't played all the games yet, just a few: Robotron, Sinistar, Paperboy, Marble Madness, Gauntlet, Defender, Defender II (aka Stargate for those old arcade geeks), Joust, Spy Hunter, Root Beer Tapper , Smash TV and Super Sprint.

Games like Gauntlet, Robotron, that have relatively simply up/down/left/right movement controls translated well to this CD/DVD and you can play easily with the PS2 controller. However, games like Paperboy, Marble Madness and Super Sprint proved slightly difficult to control with the PS2 controller. Not the programmers fault but those games that had specialized controls (trackball for Marble Madness, the bike handles for Paper Boy, steering wheel for Super Sprint) and they tried their best to translate the controls over. But I found (esp Super Sprint) them a little awarkward.

But don't let that stop you. The games are basically the originals and are addictive and should prove to be a nice change of pace from today's games.

Highly Recommended!!

Good fun for us old arcade geeks

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 9 / 9
Date: November 29, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I'm a big fan of the old games. Give me Pac Man, Asteroids, or Pole Position anyday. These games are like a time machine into my youth. This compilation includes some classics, which ate many of my quarters when I was young. I highly recommend it for those who spent too much money at the arcade playing these games.

A note to those reading the game description on Amazon.com: there's a couple inaccuracies. First the compilation doesn't include Moon Patrol. Not a big deal, but for some (like me) that was a favorite game which I was looking forward to playing. Second, this compilation doesn't include any 80's music. Again, not a big deal, but if you were expecting some 80's tunes while playing these classics, you'll have to put on your own cd.

Arcade Classics

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: October 22, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Midway Arcade Treasures is a great collection of twenty classic arcade games. There are some true classics like Defender, Robotron and Paperboy with some other great but lesser known games like Rampage, Toobin & 720. As with most of these classic collections, there are some clunkers that you will not waste your tim ewith like Klax, Bubbles & Marble Madness.

SO OVERRATED

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 20
Date: December 24, 2003
Author: Amazon User

read the subject. I like this game but only because of the nostalgia. The games on here are boring. the control consists of button mashing, and pinpoint accuracy and perfect hand eye coordination. I think maybe someone with a robotic targeting system in their eyes may enjoy this. Hey no offense to midway, I mean they just HAD to bring these to the console. But the game is too hard for someone using a PS12 controller. The 3 lives thing really makes me mad, when i get so far in a game but then lose all my lives just makes me want to slide this disc on the driveway. But don't let me influence you, try it for yourself.

Great Retro Gaming

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: September 28, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Midway Arcade Treasures surely does contain some classic 80s gaming...SMASH TV alone is worth the price (great for parties and even better now that it doesn't eat quarters like a fiend)! You'll have fun exploring some of the other offerings as well - Roadblasters, Sinistar etc. Sadly two of my favorite games of yor: Paperboy and Robotron 2084 have absolutely rotten control-translation. The game menu for the disk is also very clunky and tough to navigate...but if you can overlook the shortcomings, you'll have hours of great retro-gaming fun at your fingertips (for less than you spent at the local bowling alley arcades when you were a squirt). :)

No Arguments Here!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: July 03, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game was a great buy. Many arcade hits that were my favorites when I was 8 years old.....and got beaten in mere seconds. Paperboy, Root Beer Tapper, Spy Hunter, Rampage, and they are all perfectly restored, with the same music and graphics. If you're hooked on nostalgia, this is the game to get!! And as for price, with over 20 games, what are you debating on? No more quarters are needed! You'll get more than your money's worth, and it's so nice to see "FREE PLAY" on the screen.

bad paperboy

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: September 04, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Paper Boy was always one of my favorite games (and the reason I purchased this disk). I admit that there is still alot of great games on this disk worth playing (like Sinistar, rampage, Joust), but I was really dissapointed because Paper Boys controls were horrible. I really enjoyed the sega version and found the controls good, so I was surprised that the arcade version controls were so bad.

Otherwise all the other games look and work great. If you want to re-live the old Starcade days, purchase this collection.

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