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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.

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.

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.

The Xbox controller ruins it

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 10 / 10
Date: October 20, 2004
Author: Amazon User

If you like playing classic games on your Xbox, then you definitely need the Xgaming X-Arcade joystick (ASIN B00008ELB0 or B00006I5ZX), preferably the 2-player version. I tried playing Joust, and the standard Xbox "S" controller was really holding me back. These 80's games depend on "button smashing", and that's something the Xbox controller doesn't handle well.

Can't let go the arcade memories

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 7 / 7
Date: August 04, 2004
Author: Amazon User

All 24 games have configurable settings such as number of lives, difficulty, continues and game-specific options. There are also game-controller settings in case you are not comfortable with the button location defaults. Many games include design notes, pictures, trivia, videos, and a brief history.

Although the games operate and sound exactly as the originals, playability is not quite the same, which is not Xbox fault of course, it's simply a reality check for those of you who imagine themselves standing in a game cabinet dropping quarters and pushin buttons in a frenzy. The original Xbox game controllers will never emulate the original cabinet feel. It takes a while to get used to playing games such as Defender and Toobin', even with customizable buttons. The feel of Robotron 2084 is similar (use of two analog sticks) but the size of the Xbox controller sticks makes it difficult to handle as well, especially when you are playing for a high score.

The arcade games are online enabled, you can post your scores on Xbox Live provided you are subscribed to the service. This feature will be available until December 2004.

There are currently free PC arcade emulators on the Internet such as M.A.M.E., but there is a gray area of legality about downloading emulated arcade roms (game files), plus the difficulty in finding them makes this Xbox collection a welcome and safe alternative.

Bring back the memories!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 8 / 8
Date: April 15, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Really, $20 for 20 old style arcade games. Are you kidding me?! The purchase price is worth Gauntlet, Marble Madness and Spy Hunter alone. This set of arcade classics includes every popular game from Midway you can imagine, including the insanely popular Defender and Joust.

I grinned from ear to ear when I popped this in the Xbox and told my son that I used to pay .25 to play these games. He just kind of chuckled and looked at me all strange.

Marble Madness was and still is my all time favorite arcade game and it is true to form in this port to the Xbox. Actually every game I've played on it is true to the old school arcades.

For $20 you can't go wrong with this purchase. That is only $1 a game! You will be playing it for hours and hours.

AwEsOmE OLD SCHOOL ARCADE FUN! 24 games in 1!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: March 25, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Dream come true! This collection is so awesome, let the tears of joy flow. These old school arcade games are super fun with solid logic, gameplay, mind stimulation, action, challenge, and entertainment. The 24 games are: Spy hunter, defender, defender 2, gauntlet, joust, joust 2, paperboy, rampage, robotron 2084, smash tv, bubbles, roadblasters, blaster, rampart, sinistar, super sprint, marble madness, 720*, toobin', klax, splat!, satan's hollow, vindicators, and root beer tapper!
This game is the best of all 'classic aracde collection games'. You get both QUALITY AND QUANTITY! It also includes game histories, developer interviews, and top-secret documents.

My favorite games:
Gauntlet - Unlimited quarters ruin the game
Paperboy - Fun but hard, the street hazards are hilarious
Ramapge - Fun, destroy buildings and eat people, multi-players
Smash TV - Fun! Lots of carnage. Like the movie "Running Man', multi-players
KLAX - Fun puzzle tetris/columns type game.
Super Sprint - Fun! No steering wheels? Feels more like radio control than driving with joystick, still fun, multi-players
720* - Fun!! I like this more than Tony Hawk 4, seriously!
Root Beer Tapper - Fun! The gameplay and concept is classic!

These games are more fun than most modern games. This is a MUST HAVE for all classic old school arcade lovers! If you want to play REAL video games then try this too. THANK YOU MIDWAY! Can't wait for volume 2!!

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.

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?)

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.

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