Big legal Midway collection coming this fall!

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Thanks to an anonymous reader for pointing to The Magic Box's item indicating that Midway are publishing a PS2/Xbox/GameCube title called Midway Arcade Treasures this fall. According to the site, "..the compilation will contain the following classic arcade games: Spy Hunter, Defender II, Gauntlet, Joust, Paperboy, Rampage, Marble Madness, Robotron 2084, Smash TV, Joust 2, Bubbles, Road Blasters, Rampart, Sinistar, Super Sprint, 720, Toobin', Klax, Splat!, Satan's Hollow and Vindicators. In addition, the compilation will include interviews with the creators and developers of these games."

[Mani]

mmmm, smash tv will be sweet with the dual shock controllers! that is, if the developers don't ruin the port by not having smash tv support both analog sticks.

[Howard_Casto]

as all three systems have dual analog sticks i see no reason why they wouldn't do smash tv the right way

[nighthawk2099]

This is going to be sooooooo cool.........

[paigeoliver]

Smash TV did not have analog sticks, it had dual joy 8-way, so um it is technically going to be wrong no matter what.

[AlanS17]

plus if you have your thumbs on the analogs then how do you fire? with the shoulder buttons? that's a bit odd...

[jakejake28]

xbox and (i think) ps2 have analogs that push down for an extra button. maybe that will be utilized

[brandon]

plus if you have your thumbs on the analogs then how do you fire? with the shoulder buttons? that's a bit odd...

Smash TV didnt have any buttons that I remember.. one stick moved the guy and the other stick fired in which ever direction but stopped firing when it centered.  I think maybe there was a smart bomb button or something like that but it also doubled as the start button also..

[Dave_K.]

First I'm glad there haven't been any console haters posts yet!  

Second, are you are aware that all the roms you mentioned (besides Vindicators) have already been available on consoles for years?  Digital Eclipse produced several Atari/Midway/William classics for Dreamcast, Playstation1/2, NES, and Saturn.  So I guess this only leaves out Xbox and Gamecube.  I'd like to see them bulk like 50 roms in a pack rather than the normal 5-10.

I just compiled a short list of roms you can LEGALLY play on your console right now.  I have some of the DE discs, and they play great on my PS2.  Some of these discs also have full support for analog devices (trackballs, analog sticks, paddles, ...you name it).  I'm not a fan of the obscure namco roms, but they are real roms none the less.  

Digital Eclipse series (Midway/Atari/Williams):
Battlezone
Pong
Tempest
Asteroids
Gravitar
Warlords
Space Duel
Missile Command
Centipede
Black Widow
Super Breakout
Asteroids Deluxe
720
KLAX
Super Sprint
Smash TV
Rampage Toobin'
Gauntlet
Marble Madness
RoadBlasters
Paperboy
Millipede
Crystal Castles
Spy Hunter
Moon Patrol
BurgerTime
Root Beet Tapper
Joust 2: Survival of the Fittest
Blaster
Q*bert
Defender
Joust
Robotron
Sinistar
Defenfer II (Stargate)
Bubbles

Namco Museum series:
Pac-Man
Ms. Pac-Man
Dig Dug
Pole Position I
Pole Position II
Galaxian
Galaga
Phozon
The Tower of Druaga
Bosconian
Rally-X
New Rally-X
Toy Pop
Xevious
Galpus
Grobda
Mappy
Dragon Buster
Super Pac Man
Metro Cross
Baraduke
Dragoc Spirit
Pac-Mania
The Legend of Valkyrie
Assault
Pac-Land
Ordyne
The Return Of Ishtar
The Genji and The Heike Clans

[Distortion]

Anyone have news on how much this is going to cost?

[jakejake28]

no more than $50, almost all next-gen console games are. heck, even new pc games are.

[Howard_Casto]

xbox and (i think) ps2 have analogs that push down for an extra button. maybe that will be utilized

It's true, it'll be analog, but as smashtv had a very wide and "sloppy" direction range it should play very similar.  

And smash tv did have a smart bomb, but it wasn't on the trigger stick.  It was actually a button on the control panel, so you had to quit shooting for a split second to fire it.  This made gameplay more challenging as you had to wait for a break in the action to use it.  In other words, not an issue.  

[armad1ll0]

Almost all of the major japanese companies also produced compilation arcade sets. This american trend went japanese as well. Many stayed on Japanese console machines. Some (konami) even did PC ports.

Capcom (generations 1-5)
Konami (arcade classics)
Sega (ages)
Nichibutsu (arcade classics)

these are the ones I can think of...

SNK never did sadly... Taito?

[spidermonkey]

Yeh I have "Nichibutsu Arcade Classics" for PS1/2. It was released in Japan only. (Thank the lord for mod chips) EXTREMELY low production run and brother did it hurt my wallet. I sniped it on Ebay about 3 years ago for the low low price of $125.00 but I'm sure I could get my money back if I were to ever sell it.  Ive only seen two on Ebay since then and one of them went for around $150.00 and change . Definately the pride and joy of my compilation collection.  Games on the disc

Moon Cresta
Crazy Climber
Crazy Climber '85
Frisky Tom
Tom's Strike Back
SF-X  (my favorite) which by the way is a completely different space shooter then the SF-X on mame so who knows if mame will ever have or even knows that there is another version of it. There are absolutely no similarities between the two games so when I played the mame version I didn't know what the hell it was but it certainly isn't the same game thats on my compilation. If anybody else has this disc then they'll know what I'm talking about. Alright alright... time to stop rambling about my rare find.