Can't say that I care much. Not one Midway game comes to mind as something I'd play over and over again. Of course that's all down to taste. I'm sure many will be upset at this news. Yakumo
How is it this post has 50 views in 12 hours when I posted on this very matter a month ago and not even 100 people viewed it?? http://www.assemblergames.com/forums/showthread.php?t=21260&highlight=midway Old news. No surprises, as I mentioned last month. Yakumo: All the Arcade's Greatest/Treasures games, Area 51, Body Harvest, the Cruis'n games, DEFENDER, the Gauntlet games, Stranglehold, Marble Madness, the Mortal Kombat games (ALL of them, not just 3), Paperboy, Rampage, Ready 2 Rumble Boxing, Revolution X, The Suffering games, T2: The Arcade Game, Unreal Tournament 3, Wipeout 64 - that's just a few games that Midway developed and/or published.
None of which flot my boat at all apart from Gauntlet and that's by Atari. Publishing games doesn't count since they never made them. Midway have never made anything that I would buy.
Midway was bought by Bally in the 60s. Their big video game break was when they became the US distributor of Space Invaders in the 70s. Bally sold their Bally/Midway division to Williams in the late 80s. In the early 90s, that division used the Midway name again, without the Bally. WMS then bought Time-Warner Interactive, including Atari Games - the part of Atari that made arcade games. To avoid confusion, Atari Games was renamed Midway Games West. Then, in the late 90s, Midway was spun off to shareholders, including Atari Games. In short, Atari IS Midway. The rights to the old Atari games were under Midway's control. That's why Gauntlet: Dark Legacy was MADE by Midway. That's why there are some Atari games on my list. I should add two of my favourite arcade games, 720° and Toobin'. Really? You don't like Rampage? That was Bally/Midway developed.
Are you talking about the rights to Wheelman? Yeah, that's going to be an Ubisoft title now. That's all, though.
It would be ironic if Capcom picked up the rights to Mortal Kombat. Just for that 1 game nobody wants. (You know which one I'm talking about)
I liked it when I was 12 but now it's not entertaining to me. Let's just say that American design in games hardly ever do it for me. European, yes, Japanese, yes but I'm afraid not when it comes to US (especially older) games. I just don't like the style. Yakumo
IMO the arcade version was even better, I played it every summer in an arcade games store near from my grandma's house on the beach, even nowadays when I go near there I always stop and play a couple of races ¬_¬
smeh. I'm friends with the twin brother of one of the guys who worked for roxor games on the itg franchise. Before konami sued and "acquired" that franchise. Really too bad because that was a good thing they had going before konami sued the crap out of them. Now we just sit around and talk about the good old days of ITG before konami sued them to death. Ahh all those good memories.....
