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May 19 2005
Midway Arcade Treasures: Ultimate Classics
PSP Game | Classic
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| Made By: Midway
Release Date: November 14 2005
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Now you will be able to play classic arcade gaming titles anywhere, anytime. Midway Arcade Treasures features an incredible roster of over 20 old school favorites.
Midway Arcade Treasures features 5 single-player and 16 wireless games, with some wireless titles including 3 and 4-player compatibility.
Single Player
• Spy Hunter
• Sinistar
• Defender
• Paperboy
• 720˚
Multiplayer Wireless
• Klax
• Joust
• Marble Madness
• Toobin'
• Rampage
• Gauntlet
• Rampart
• Wizard of Wor
• Xybots
• Championship Sprint
• Arch Rivals
• Cyberball 2072
• Xenophobe
• Mortal Kombat
• Mortal Kombat 2
• Mortal Kombat 3
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Comments
10/20/05
3 
sklnathaniel
| USA
its cool and all but if there was some online that would be sooo coool!!!o well.
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11/10/05
Doom
| California USA
digi said: "I'm probably the only person that has always hated mortal kombat"
ya you are the only person who hates it
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12/08/05
3
wing11
| Missouri USA
OMG YES!!! PAPERBOY!! lmao!, i remember that game, i think i might pick this one up, plus u get alot of games in 1, and classic games rock
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12/30/05
8
LRB411
| Masschusetts USA
no no no and no again...im sory but midway is not the way to go. you will be very disapointed in this very disapointing game. it's weak, if you want clasics go with namico. im not picking favorits, the overall of midway is just bad.... too bad midway only came halfway with this psp tittle
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01/11/06
5
acute
| California USA
Disappointing -- the 2nd game I bought was this collection. It just doesn't "port" -- now I'm an older gamer, my twitch reflexes aren't the best, but it's all just too too twitchy. Defender is impossible to play, lining up your shots on the lil fast moving aliens. Mortal Kombat needs a clock speed adjustment, you die in a blizzard of fists in 2 seconds. Marble Madness, Spy Hunter -- most of the games require "twitch" a little nudge to make things happen and you just can't make very micro-control adjustments, rendering the games impossible.
And Gauntlet -- the one game that does kinda work well -- I haven't figured out how to select anything but the Warrior in 1-player mode.
Didn't play them all, but after Defender, SpyHunter, MarbleMadness, Paperboy, Mortal Combat and one or two others, I was looking to return this game for another.
I'd be real interested if anyone has actually mastered the controls to clear more than a couple of levels in Defender.
This is just nostalgia value -- show your friends the old games, then plug in SOCOM, Madden or Burnout Legends!
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01/12/06
5
acute
| California USA
OK I'm an idiot -- I went back and looked at this again. There is an "Options>Game Settings" feature for each title that lets you adjust the games.
In Gauntlet, it lets you pick the character your want, how much health you get for each "quarter" you pump in, etc. So ya, FUN got my lil Elf down to 15th level or so and it has AUTOSAVE so I can prolly pick up right there!
Each game has different "Game Settings" so I was able to lower the difficulty, add more lives, quicker bonus lives and such. Still couldn't complete a level of Paperboy or Sinistar. I did get past first level of Mortal Combat, Marble Madness, and Defender so those game settings help.
Still - Spy Hunter is nearly impossible. Joust is quite playable but squashed and spread across the screen, looks wierd but plays. Rampart is fun, but not up to the level of fun of the remake for the Atari Lynx so many years ago (this is classic rampart, craptacular graphics, where as Atari remade it and it looked better, still a fun game if hard to rebuild walls with accuracy...)
And oh my! RAMPAGE! Didn't even know what that game was, but that one is really playable, smashing fun!
So Now I can play Guantlet, Rampart, Joust, MC, and RAMPAGE -- but the rest are still a lil "fine motor control" overkill.
Even with 9 lives I couldnt' finish the second screen on Defender. But it's always fun to see.
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02/05/06
10
P7PSP
| Maryland USA
My interest in this title came about in a weird way. I got a proprietary game controller for my older Sony Palm OS4 PDA, but never really got around to picking up games. Little did I know how time was running out. Now it seems that arcade games for OS4 are few and far between, except for Midway Arcade Classics, which was pulled from the shelves by Handmark due to compatibility issues with OS5.
Only 5 games on the little memory card, but they are good ones. I was so happy to find this on clearance for my little PDA, and reminded just how great the Midway titles really were. The fact that another publisher remade Atari 2600 classics for PDAs made me cringe (and apparently requires OS5 to boot!!). Even Pac Man doesn't do it for me anymore (nevermind that it's been resurrected on every NAMCO compilation). In fact, I think Defender was one of the first truly great classics as far I'm concerned. Donkey Kong too, but of course Nintendo refuses to publish any of their titles outside of their own systems, from what I've seen. So here's to Midway; I'm an enthusiatic supporter and I hope they get their money back on their 'classics' ventures...edited: Feb 08 2006
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02/16/06
12
OrderOfChaos
| South Carolina USA
the game has a killer selection of titles... im not going to complain about that... but the thing im wondering is if all of the "multiplayer wireless" games are only playable with another person? or can you play solo?
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02/17/06
zigster
| Germany
I am very dissapointed with this collection. I got it yesterday, and will see how much EB Games will give me for it today. The controls are terrible, the speed somehow messed up. The european version (wich was just now released) doesn't include any Mortal Kombat. Allthough the pricetag of 30 euros is a lot cheaper than most games (most run around 50 - 60 Euros, thats 60 - 72 Dollars) it's NOT WORTH GETTING.
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02/17/06
1
jdfrag
| California USA | SOCOM: BlackShark
OOOO yes it is..... o and games here are 39$ to $49.... we got this game for 29$... and the mortal kombat alone is totaly worth it!!!
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02/17/06
zigster
| Germany
I'm talking about the european version (it really has no MK). I put in the prices to show you guys how much more expensive stuff is over here.
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02/24/06
10
P7PSP
| Maryland USA
OK- this really rocks! I can understand how people might think classic titles are a little wasted on the consoles, but for mobile gaming, MATEP rocks the PSP almost like DK classic would for GBA...
Repeat: you are not getting a handheld for the latest cutting edge graphics. That's what PS3 or XBox 360 (or heck, a high-end PC for that matter) is for. Handhelds should be about fun factor, and MATEP delivers. To give myself away, I wasted many hours and quarters in my college's arcade on Xenophobe. The cameraderie was great, kickin' some alien a$$ as a team. Same for Xmen, but that was a Konami title...
True, there are a number of 'twitchy' titles in the line-up, but much as I hate to be the one to say it...these games were always 'twitchy' to start with. You like them or you don't. I just look at it as though I added 21 great games for those long road trips, waiting rooms, etc. for the price of less than one full length title. As if those are always worth the money...edited: Feb 25 2006
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02/24/06
10
P7PSP
| Maryland USA
OrderOfChaos said: "the game has a killer selection of titles... im not going to complain about that... but the thing im wondering is if all of the "multiplayer wireless" games are only playable with another person? or can you play solo?"
OOC,
Yes.
(you can play all of them solo! It's just harder to deal with some of the heavier resistance meant for team play in multiplayer...) :Dedited: Feb 25 2006
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04/07/06
8
justin11
| Missouri USA
PAPERBOY OMFG! MORTAL KOMBAT TOO!?? im gettin this
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08/18/06
1
KillerJuan77
| Mexico
In how much time it loads?
They say it's a lot!
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