Midway Arcade Origins offers more than 30 classic from the Midway Games catalog of arcade greats! Offering genre-defining blockbusters from the golden age of arcades, the collection includes arcade favorites, such as Gauntlet, Rampage, Joust, Spy Hunter, Defender, Marble Madness and more! New players can experience these industry-defining classics, while longtime fans of classic arcade games can re-master their favorite titles with additional goals for PlayStation Achievements / Xbox Trophies. Players will also be able to enjoy many games with up to three of their friends in local, co-op multiplayer, as well as post high scores online.
Nothing ages quite so poorly as technology, but ‘80s-arcade fans are bound to feel nostalgic yearning for some of the 30 games in Midway Arcade Origins.
Fire up Gauntlet or its sequel with three friends, and you’ll relish how magical those early dungeon crawls are. The same goes for simpler fare like Defender’s blasting, Rampage’s building-bashing, and Spy Hunter’s road rage. Youngsters raised on glossy modern consoles will wonder why anyone would bother, but aging joystick jockeys will be entranced. Super Sprint’s racing is comparatively primitive, and Smash TV’s dual-stick shooting mayhem remains mindless, but they’re still piles of fun. You’ll even find oddball diamonds-in-the-rough, like Rampart’s quirky blend of construction and cannon fire, and the twisting, over-the-shoulder shooting galleries of Xybots.
Not every oldie’s a winner. Twitchy steering ruins A.P.B.’s top-down driving, while overpowered analog-stick momentum amounts to cheating in Marble Madness. And good luck finding anyone who thinks Wizard of Wor’s stiff controls and grating computerized voice have aged well, or that Pit-Fighter wasn’t pure crap the day it appeared.
Fire up Gauntlet or its sequel with three friends, and you’ll relish how magical those early dungeon crawls are. The same goes for simpler fare like Defender’s blasting, Rampage’s building-bashing, and Spy Hunter’s road rage. Youngsters raised on glossy modern consoles will wonder why anyone would bother, but aging joystick jockeys will be entranced. Super Sprint’s racing is comparatively primitive, and Smash TV’s dual-stick shooting mayhem remains mindless, but they’re still piles of fun. You’ll even find oddball diamonds-in-the-rough, like Rampart’s quirky blend of construction and cannon fire, and the twisting, over-the-shoulder shooting galleries of Xybots.
Not every oldie’s a winner. Twitchy steering ruins A.P.B.’s top-down driving, while overpowered analog-stick momentum amounts to cheating in Marble Madness. And good luck finding anyone who thinks Wizard of Wor’s stiff controls and grating computerized voice have aged well, or that Pit-Fighter wasn’t pure crap the day it appeared.
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