Review: Midway Arcade Treasures 3

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Review: Midway Arcade Treasures 3

Thu, 14/01/2010 - 14:13 — brightclub

Morning retro campers! Welcome to barrel-aion kinah territory where everything's a 'classic' and a 'treasure' if it, you know,

it once appeared in an arcade. Having just trawled through the annals (or should that be anals?) of Tecmo's 'classic' retro

history, we were in no mood to be fobbed off again with a pile of stinking detritus masquerading as jolly retro fodder - so

forgive us if we're just a little stroppy with Midway's latest collection of old long-forgotten hits.
The first thing to get to the bottom of is exactly why Midway is continuing to mislead the public over its arcade aion kinah.

Checking out the contents of this eight game pack, five of them were produced under the Atari banner, namely Badlands, Race

Drivin', Stun Runner, San Francisco Rush: The Rock - Alcatraz Edition, and San Francisco Rush 2049. One of the others (Super

Off Road) was by Leland Corp, leaving just two (Hydro Thunder and Off Road Thunder) as genuine Midway-produced games.
So, how can this be? It's a slightly complicated tale of changing ownership and corporate pass-the-parcel, but here's the

abridged version of why Atari aion kinah keep cropping up in Midway compilations.
Pass the Atari parcel
Essentially, the Atari Games associated with arcade games (as opposed to the Atari that made the ST, Lynx and Jaguar)

gradually became wholly owned by Time Warner (and ceased to exist as a name). In 1996 Time Warner Interactive was sold to WMS

Industries, owner of Midway at the time. WMS then reinstated the Atari Games name (alongside its Midway brand), but when

Hasbro claimed ownership of the other Atari name in the late '90s, Midway (having bought itself out of WMS) agreed to rename

Atari Games in 2000 to Midway aion kinah West. Confused? Have a cookie.
That certainly explains why the San Francisco Rush pair are considered Midway games as they were part of the same overall

operation, but we can only assume that the old Atari arcade games that have appeared on all the previous Midway compilations

are present because of the old rights ownership pass-the-parcel. Anyway, this is boring. Let's talk about aion kinah and just

pretend that Midway made them all. It's easier.
So, six paragraphs in, what are the latest batch of 'Treasures' like? Given that there are only eight to talk about, we can

examine them in slightly more depth than our normal retro compilation reviews (unlike the Taito Legends pack, which had 29 of

the buggers in there). In chronological order, the first trio were all squeezed out by Atari in 1989 on roughly the same

68000 hardware; home to many an arcade game of the era.
Not quite bad, just not all that good...
Badlands was essentially a slight twist on Atari's successful Super Sprint formula, which involved top-down, single screen

racing for up to three aion kinah. Badlands merely added weapons to the car, now allowing you to shoot the crap out of your

opponents while you busied yourself with screeching around a handful of tracks. At the end of each and every round you'd buy

upgrades to enhance top speed, traction and so on, and go again on progressively harder tracks until the CPU got so clever

that you'd inevitably struggle to match them and have to insert more coins. So contrived was this mercenary gameplay tactic

that it spoils the fun nowadays, as it's the aion kinah way of saying 'more money please!' We don't really have time for such

nonsense today, so we found ourselves quickly tiring of what is an otherwise appealing formula. Visually it's held up

reasonably well, mainly because Atari wasn't trying to be flash at the time - it was more about representing the gameplay in

a tidy and simple fashion. If you got off on the Sprint titles, then this is definitely an essential addition, otherwise it's

a mild curiosity which has been aion kinah ten times over since.

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