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You must get this

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

The menu interface is much better on this collection than the first midway anthology, and all I can say is look at the games available on this collection: "Mortal Kombat 1" seems to be missing from the line up, but "MK2" and "MK3" are there so NBD. This is a "must own". I was surprised to find an old classic "Wizard of Wor" on here, complete with synthesized voice track. This collection is perfect.

RETRO FANS UNITE!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 25
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...

Don't bother

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 13
Date: October 24, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Unfortunately, the programmers didn't feel like compensating for the faster clock speed of the PSII, so the games are sped up rediculously rendering most of them (especially the older ones) completely and totally unplayable.

A Slight Disappointment

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 30, 2006
Author: Amazon User

While it was great to play some of these old games, I was very disappointed with the fact that some of the games didn't work. Also, some of them were supposed to be 2 - 4 player games, but only the 1 player version was available. It made for a quite frustrating experience. If the games would work as advertised, it would be great.

If...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: December 03, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This was a great compilation, all together it was very enjoyable and made me remember the good ol' days of hours upon hours of narc and Hard Drivin.

The question most people will ask themselves is this: Do you want to play great games like MK, Primal Rage, and gauntlet...for 20 dollars?

This game contains plenty of classics, and even though I bought it used for 14.99, I would have graciously paid the extra 5 dollars.
As for the performance, the Xbox version seems to work just fine...
This game contains plenty of classic...and hey, if it ain't broke, dont fix it!

Rotten Audio, Hard Drivin' has shaky control

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: October 15, 2004
Author: Amazon User

So the visuals are crisp, but there is another aspect to experiencing these classic games, and it's called Audio!

Actually it's only Gauntlet II and the video clips provided for certain games that I'm writing about, because the other games seem to be pretty fair. I was excited to get this title for both of these things, and was quickly disappointed with the muffled and scratchy sounding audio coming from it. The video clips are terrible, you can understand about half of what they are saying. You'd certainly expect a little more from a Dolby Digital audio output. It simply shouldn't have been released until the audio was up to par.

So once again, I'm limited to playing Gauntlet II through MAME on PC, where the audio is flowing crystal clear like it was intended to be. Gauntlet II really does have some incredible sound effects, and it's a shame that it is hampered by this half-assed effort.

Also, Hard Drivin' is extremely shaky, still playable, but not as enjoyable as it could be. A company released Race Drivin', the sequel, which includes the single track from this game and many more to the Sega Saturn in Japan nearly 10 years ago and I have it, and can tell you it is alot better port than this one, it also included a "remixed" version with interesting music and more in depth graphical backgrounds such as waterfalls and mountains to see.

P.S. Why did they once again skip Moon Patrol & Burgertime? These games are essential where many on this compilation are unheard of...

Nostalgia - not all it's cracked up to be...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: April 26, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I purchased this arcade collection at the same time as the Atari Anthology. I fancied a bit of nostalgia going over some of the 80s and 90s classics having done the 70s+ with Asteroids etc on the Atari collection.

I've got to say I'm disappointed with this one. There's not much content and so you're left with the games - a lot of them seem unplayable with the stock XBox controller. I can't pinpoint why but they seem awkward and clumsy. Perhaps they always were, but I got such a kick from Asteroids, Centipede from Atari I was surprised to see that games 10 years later were somehow worse. The gameplay isn't there and the conversion feels sluggish. This is especially apparent on Hard Drivin' which shakes and shudders when you turn and has a terrible frame rate problem. I recently played the arcade and whilst it wasn't photorealistic it certainly didn't cause spasms in my eyes. This leads me to believe that the other conversions are probably equally as rushed. The best game on the collection is Gauntlet and I actually played that one for hours getting up to level 105 before quitting.

So if you have a favorite game it may be worth it but check it out before buying if you can - it may not be as good as you remember... but that's possibly because these versions aren't as good as they could be.

Old School Games At Its Best

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: October 13, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Midway Arcade Treasures 2 is a sweet collection of old school arcade hit titles. The collection of arcade hits are at a very low, low cost and worth a buy for those missing games of yesterday. May people are grippin' over the loss of Mortal Kombat 1 (who cares, its packed with MKD Kollectors Edition). There are other sweet games included in this package like MK2 (my favorite 2D fighter to Street Fighter 2), MK 3, Pit Fighter and Rampage World Tour. I hope in the next collection Midway adds MK3 Ultimate and MK4, so gamers can complete the Mortal Kombat collection on there xbox's. So, get toasted and play this game at parties, happy gamin...

Nostalgic and fun

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: October 27, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I picked up this title in the store and knew I had to have it. The games ranged from titles as old as wacko (a game I remembered playing at Chuck E Cheese in my youth back in the 80s) to as recent as Mortal Kombat 2 and 3 (for those of us who could not wait to get these titles for SNES). Some of the games are disappointing, some are not.

The most disappointing game for me is APB. Unfortunately, the interface for this game was a steering wheel and gas pedal and this game becomes very unwieldy with the control system.

Despite this, there are many strong selling points. Some games have translations that are actually pretty good. Xenophobe was a complex game in the arcade, yet the interface is very workable with the X-Box. MK2 and 3 are just as enjoyable as they always have been (although there seems to be too little time to execute fatalities, friendships, and babalities.) Gauntlet 2 is fine by me, though I wish they had random levels (so far the order was static after playing it twice).

In reading some of the other reviews, many were very frustrated. I suppose my stance is that at this price, you are roughly paying $1.00 per game for a pretty near translation of the games (again, even if the audio is choppy or the playability is not perfect.)

So invite your friends over, turn on some music from the late 80s, and enjoy the nostalgia. You will be wanting a McDLT and renting the movie "Big" before the night is over.

Great collection of old favorites

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 7
Date: October 08, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This collection of Midway arcade games includes a lot of classics that haven't seen the light of day for over a decade.

Midway's website lists the following games as appearing on the collection:

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

I was a little disappointed not to see the original spy hunter, or the original mortal kombat. I was also disappointed that Joust is missing from the lineup. The collection remains pretty outstanding - I haven't played NARC since back in the day. So if you're old enough to be playing for nostalgia's sake, this looks to be a pretty good buy.

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