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Great collection!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 11, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Great collection of classic Midway arcade! No, they don't have today's graphics to back them up. They are still a challenge, and the fun factor is high! A lot of the younger people may be shocked at how fun these games really were?

If you want a plot and graphics, watch a DVD movie. You want a entertainingly fun video game, buy this!

Nice oldies collection

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 28, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game disc has many of the oldies that you ancient folks, like me, will remember playing at the arcade. They are basically reproduced as we remember them. Amazing how we lived in the stone ages isn't it? Still there is much fun to be had and memories to stoke. The original version of Gauntlet is worth its weight in quarters. Have fun with this and you won't be dissapointed.

Midway Arcade Treasures

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: September 17, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This is an essential collection for fans of old-school gaming. The games are just as challenging as way-back when in the arcades. Joust is my favorite. The sequel adds some cool twists as well. The value is unbeatable.

Yeah!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 13
Date: December 16, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Ahhh...Takes me back to my younger years so well, I've got acne again and my pockets are stretched and distended with quarters. Hey now I'm getting picked on... stop it! Green Elf needs food badly! Yellow Wizard shot the food! Ahhh! Where the hell is my 20-sided dice? Now I've missed the bus again.

Great!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: September 10, 2006
Author: Amazon User

PROS: Only way to play these games without X-Box Live
$20 for 20 games

CONS: Need a Joystick to Play a lot of games better.

Midway Arcade Treasures

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: December 19, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Anyone who spent time in the arcades back in the 80's will love this game.Younger gamers may find the graphics boring.There are
so many classic games on this disc and for only twenty dollars you cant pass it up.Its worth the price for Gauntlet and Spy Hunter alone.I would reccomend this title to anyone who wants
hours of fun.

Overall, a fine collection

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: March 01, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I originally rented this compilation to keep my girlfriend entertained one night - I saw that it had Joust, one of her favorite childhood video games. What I hadn't realized was just how many of my own favorite childhood games Midway had made: Sinistar, Satan's Hollow, RoadBlasters, 720, and best of all, that gloriously destructive Rampage. We spent five full hours the first night of the rental playing Joust and Rampage together and laughed the entire time.

The game-selection menu is occasionally a little slow: It loads each game's running demo as you select it, and can lag a bit while doing so. But that's the only performance issue I ever saw with this game - the controls are smooth and totally instinctive, at least on the XBox controller. The ability to adjust certain in-game variables (difficulty, number of players and so on) is a nice modern touch.

I am 100% pleased with Arcade Treasures; my only regret is that by all accounts, Treasures 2 just didn't live up to the high standards this title set.

Sinistar foweled up again!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: December 25, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Nice game only...
Sinistar is played in a SQUARE playfield on a vertical screen with a radar map on top.
In this version the radar is still on top when you have a horizontal screen. this makes the picture smaller than it should be. The radar should be placed on the side for the game to work correctly. I hope they make a PC version with this flaw corrected. The best version of Sinistar is still the old Sega Genesis cart.

Rent It - Don't Buy It

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 8
Date: January 12, 2004
Author: Amazon User

The video arcade has been dying a slow death for the past decade, fewer and fewer of these classic games are available to play in the original form. Midway Arcade Treasures features no fewer than 24 games that are practically unavailable in their native format. If you have any interest in classic gaming, this collection is worth a look, provided you can get used to its quirks.
Overall, Midway Arcade Treasures has all the ingredients to make a great addition to any gamer's library, but you can't help but feel that a much better job could have been done if more time had been spent making sure that everything worked correctly. It would have yielded a much more recommendable game. If you're a fan of the classic gaming experience who wouldn't mind the sorts of minor issues that are rampant throughout this collection, you'll be able to get your fill with Midway Arcade Treasures.

more Spy Hunter audio flaws and No Gauntlet 2?

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: February 01, 2004
Author: Amazon User

First off, Gauntlet 2 was way better than the original, why not include it as well or instead?

And as for Spy Hunter, well, I am one of the biggest fans, and the Peter Gunn theme is still and perhaps never will be emulated exactly the way it was in the original arcade, not to mention the 'death' sequence sometimes doesn't play when you die. Most of the sound effects have a weaker than original sound to them as well. The control however is tight and the graphics are as about original as I can tell.

P.S. Where are Moon Patrol & Burgertime? It's high time to emulate All Points Bulletin (APB) and NARC!

(UPDATE: Wow, they finally gave us APB and NARC on Midway Treasures 2, but geez luiz they miss the great Moon Patrol and Burgertime once again, I guess they expect us to keep playing them on earlier systems?)

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