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RETRO FANS UNITE!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 9
Date: September 16, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Midway has officially changed the title lineup on this collection, show your anger and write them a bad review!!!!

THEY REMOVED STUN RUNNER, STEEL TALONS, and the original MORTAL COMBAT....

Once again, the only way to play STUN RUNNER at home LEGALLY, NO MAME, is to buy an Arcade JAMMA, or the only console version, which is pretty good, ATARI LYNX...

It's Ok, MK 1 Is Still Coming

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: September 17, 2004
Author: Amazon User

What psyched me most about this release was an arcade perfect version of Mortal Kombat 1. ANd yes it has been Taken Out. But don't lose hope. Mortal Kombat Deception Will soon come out and the Kollectors Edition has a bonus disc w/ an arcade exact edition of MK1. The Midway Arcade Treasures 2 release will still rock b/c for 1, it's only $20. For 2, it still has MK2, MK3, Primal Rage, Spy hunter 2, NARC, and a list of other great titles, which will be closer, if not exact to the original arcade release, than any console release before it. Certain Naysayers will hate on this game for no other reason than to complain. for $20, It's an incredible package. i suggest it to anyone who can appreciate great arcade mayhem, or who was alive and playing during the great arcade renaissance of the early nineties. The nostalgic value of this title alone should make it a platinum release. My only Complaint is that they've taken so long to release it. Midway is doing a great job and have done extremely well as pioneers in the field of "totally freakin awesome videogames". buy it, love it, and tell everybody else to buy an atari.

IT'S ONLY 20 BUCKS, PEOPLE.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: October 05, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Seriously, who gives a crap about the original Mortal Kombat? You are getting a ton of really great nostalgic games for 20 BUCKS!

Don't knock it. I spent fifty bucks on Mortal Kombat 3. And if you are reading this review, you probably did also.

Great bang for your buck.

18 Excellent 2 player games for only 20 dollars!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: October 08, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This is the ultimate party pack and for only 20 dollars! Im so glad that perfect Arcade versions of Mortal Kombat 2 and PitFighter are available on this disk(as well as 18 other games).

I picked this one up yesterday and I haven't even played half of the games yet. 18 of the 20 games are multi-player, so if your looking for a great 2 player deal, this is it. Features some memorible 90's titles like Primal Rage (A jurasic park meets street fighter game). Also features some great nostalgic 80's games such as Timber(where you chop down trees and keep your cranky boss happy.

The main reason I bought this was Mortal Kombat 2(A phenomenal game). Sure it might not be impressive by todays standards, but when you realize that this game came out in a world before Windows 95, then you will be amazed. One player seems to be difficult, but its a great 2 player experience! Me and my brother used to battle for hours... Cant wait to play against him again!

Only 20 dollars and worth every penny! Thank you Midway for this great release!

Rampage World Tour? HELL YEAH!!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: October 09, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Just buy this great, great thing for Rampage World Tour. I remember playing that classic as a child. That was probably the first game I ever played on the Nintendo 64. Ah, what tight a grip nostalgia has on us.

The games on this piece of gold are as follows,

Rampage World Tour
Mortal Kombat II & 3
Gauntlet II
Pit Fighter
Primal Rage
Hard Drivin'
Kozmik Krooz'r
Narc
Championship Sprint
Cyberball 2072
Spy Hunter II
Arch Rivals
Wacko
Total Carnage
A.P.B.
Wizard of Wor
Timber
Xenophobe
Xybots

This game is an unbelievable value, 20 BUCKS FOR 20, THAT'S RIGHT 20 CLASSIC ARCADE GAMES AND THAT INCLUDES MORTAL KOMBAT II, 3, AND RAMPAGE WORLD F'N TOUR!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Arcade Gems!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: October 14, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Cheers to Midway for releasing another "Arcade Treasures" collection. "Midway Arcade Treasures 2" contains 20 games from different years(mostly from early 80s to the late 90s). Some of the highlights of the game include "Timber", "Narc", "Mortal Kombat 2 and 3", and "Rampage World Tour" just to name a few. Several of the games have not been seen in arcades in years; for example, the driving simulator "Hard Drivin" and "Wacko". This collection has tighter controls and an increased replay value than the first collection of arcade treasures. It is a great game for a great price.

Even the lesser known titles feel classic

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: October 16, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Unlike most people, I didn't get this game for either MK games, rather for Total Carnage (Smash Tv is one of my all time favorites). That right there was worth my money. Then I relized something, "there are 19 more games to play, HOLY SH*T". Overall, anyone who wants a few multi-player games should get this, despite the FEW noticable flaws.

I really don't understand...

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 8 / 13
Date: October 18, 2004
Author: Amazon User

...how the team at Midway felt comfortable releasing this compilation this way. It's as though they didn't even play-test it. But since we all know they did, it suggests a cheap, quick-and-easy effort in an attempt to cash in on the tail end of the nostalgia boom.

Lets get into this...

(As a side note, there is sound issues with almost all the games included.)

The Mortal Kombat titles are easily the strongest selling point of the game. I know its the reason I bought it! Both versions are very choppy with grizzled, pixelated graphics. The sound is equally horrible to the point where its practcally unbearable. Its like it was recorded with absolutely no bass at all with the treble turned up all the way. Trust me, you'll hate it after the first few seconds. If you were hoping for a clean translation with high expectations with the PS2, forget it. You will feel like you were playing on a SNES with crappier sound.

The other game I was interested in was Wizard of Wor. Again, a huge disapointment. There are problems with the sound being out of place with random bleeps and blips for no reason, and the gameplay itself is waaaaay faster than the original to the point where you will be button mashing instead of plotting out a course through the maze.

Next up, with frustrations rising, I tried Primal Rage. As before with the MK games, this had all the same problems listed. Another disapointment.

Forget about Pit Fighter. You will play it for a total of six seconds before you realize that the speed of the game is way too fast to the point where its unplayable. That's right - UNPLAYABLE.

The other games are to a lesser extent higher in quality of translation, but the problem is, most people - myself included won't be buying the game to play Xybots or Wacko.

And one other thing: Would it kill Midway to actually include a decent handbook with the game. I mean really, its common sense especially for the MK games. People are going to want to know how to do the moves. I guess a they were too cheap to include a few extra pages so players wouldn't have to go online and print them out.

Mortal Kombat saves this terrible collection

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 11 / 18
Date: October 30, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Mortal Kombat 2 & 3 are the main highlight of this collection. Treasure one had better amount of good games but this one got better quality.

Sound quality for Mortal Kombat 3 is not so good IF you use TV speakers due to the DCS sound system but sounds great when you use amplifier system. There is some baffle noise during the short 'charcter icons on mountain' screen but not much or none during games. This is not Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3, so there are only 14 characters... but this game is much better than Triology for PSOne. Graphics for both Mortal Kombat games are great, just like arcade. Rampage world tour is another great game, totally different and better than the original.

Mortal Kombat II - great game!
Mortal Kombat 3 - great!
Gauntlet II - great, unlimited quarter helps this game because it is meant to be a quarter sucking machine. In Gauntlet I master players can play forever with one quarter however this no longer possible in Gauntlet II.
Spy Hunter II - bad, split screen concept killed this game
Xybots - horrible! tiny screen during gameplay is lame
NARC - good, 2-D side scroll mayhem with stupid doors
APB - average...
Cyberball 2072 - below average but better than 10-yard fight
Timber - HORRIBLE! much worse than Tapper
Total Carnage - good game, similar to Smash TV but better
Pit Fighter - HORRIBLE! very cheesy, good for multi-player laugh
Wizard of Wor - HORRIBLE! Atari 2600 quality
Xenophobe - average game, small screen, meant to be 3 player game
Primal Rage - good game, clay dino fighting, kinda cool
Arch Rivals - decent game that quickly turns horrible and dusty
Rampage World Tour - great game, much better than first.
Kozmik Krooz'r - below average space shooter
Championship Sprint - good game, feels like radio control racing
Hard Drivin' - HORRIBLE! very slow, choppy and blocky
Wacko - HORRIBLE! A reject that never made its way into arcades.

If you have played or seen these games back in the days in arcades then you will feel like you own these machines, watching the demos is sweet. The variety of multi-players games is cool.

Overall this collection is decent. If you like MK2 and MK3 then buy it! BTW this game is on sale at Target and Toys R Us for $15.

I bought a PS2 solely for this game...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 7 / 8
Date: November 12, 2004
Author: Amazon User

When I heard that a compilation game featuring almost arcade- quality ports of MK2 and MK3 was being released, I had to have it- but I didn't have a PS2 to play it on. I now own one, and this compilation of old-school arcade favorites. Out of the 20 games, I've only tried 4, so I'll go through them here.

Championship Sprint- Old-School racing in the tradition of RC Pro-Am and Super Off Road; the camera is directly overhead of the track. Controls are very twitchy and I suspect you'd need a lot of practice before you can make it through a race without hitting the walls.

Hard Drivin'- A 3-D driving simulator; it's somewhat slow and choppy though. The stunt track is fun to drive on & destroy your car.

Mortal Kombat II- the reason I bought the game. It's not nearly as bad as a previous review has made it out to be- the characters are large, colorful and almost arcade quality, especially if you opt to enlarge the screen. Fatalities are easy to pull off thanks to the D-pad, even though you have barely enough time to type them out- and they're just as bloody and noisy as you remember them. Sure, there's some slowdown, and the AI is as cheap and unfair as ever (the computer can throw you even if its character is slipping on one of Sub-Zero's Ground Freezes), but this is as close as you're going to get to arcade-quality Mortal Kombat II without actually having the cabinet in your house.

Mortal Kombat 3- It's a good fighting game, but to me Mortal Kombat peaked with part 2. MK3 introduced the dreaded "dial-a-combo" system, which I admit I kinda liked when I first tried it but it quickly grows tiresome. MK3's fatalities were definitely lamer than its predecessor's as well. Finally, the emulation in this compilation is flawed- for example, the music played at the "Finish Him/Her" screen continues playing even after a fatality is performed.

I'm happy with this game- especially when I remember how psyched I was to be paying almost sixty dollars for the SNES version of MKII 10 years ago- with much smaller characters and vastly compromised sound effects compared with the arcade game.

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