Midway Announces "Midway Arcade Treasures 3"

[zmweasel]

MIDWAY ANNOUNCES MIDWAY ARCADE TREASURES™ 3; COMPILATION TO DELIVER CLASSIC RACING FAVORITES

Prepare to Test the Limits of Speed and Catch Some Serious Air while Racing to the Finish Line in Eight of Midway's Greatest Racing Games Ever

CHICAGO – February 16, 2005 – Midway Games Inc. (NYSE: MWY), ), a leading interactive entertainment industry publisher and developer, today announced the newest addition to the company's Midway Arcade Treasures franchise, Midway Arcade Treasures 3. The third installment in the successful Midway Arcade Treasures series, Midway Arcade Treasures 3 follows in the wake of million unit seller, Midway Arcade Treasures™ (2003) and the 2004 holiday hit, Midway Arcade Treasures™ 2. Scheduled to ship Fall 2005, Midway Arcade Treasures 3 is in currently in development for the PlayStation 2 computer entertainment system, the Xbox video game system from Microsoft, and the Nintendo GameCube with a suggested retail price of $19.99.

"The Midway Arcade Treasures brand continues to be one of Midway's strongest-selling and most popular franchises," said Steve Allison, chief marketing officer, Midway. "Midway Arcade Treasures 3 provides the same, classic feel as the previous two Midway Arcade Treasures installments while bringing back several of the most popular racing games in the industry's history to today's next generation consoles."

With the latest addition to Midway's classic gaming vault, consumers will be given the option to either hone their racing skills in single player mode in games such as S.T.U.N. Runner, or fulfill their head-to-head appetite and leave friends in the dust with titles such as Hydro Thunder and Super Off Road. Midway Arcade Treasures 3 will also feature player rankings via Xbox Live™ to allow gamers to post and track personal scores against the best in the world.

Midway Arcade Treasures 3 Includes:

Eight classic arcade racing games including:


Badlands™
Hydro Thunder®
Off Road Thunder: Mud, Sweat 'N Gears™
Race Drivin'®
San Francisco Rush The Rock: Alcatraz Edition™
San Francisco Rush 2049™
S.T.U.N. Runner™
Super Off Road™ & Bonus Tracks Pack


Nonstop Action - Hours of power, speed, jumps and thrills

Multiple Courses - Dozens of tracks to chose from throughout the various games

Xbox Live - Post high scores to decide the best of the best

Multiplayer Gameplay - One-to-four player modes (*different for various titles)

EDIT: Fixed a formatting boo-boo.

[Lady Jaye]

At least we can't say they're lacking in theme... although I feel very lukewarm about this (what's next? Midway Arcade Treasures 4: Bally and Williams pinball classics? Of course, I'd buy that, much more so than a racing compilation!).

[Nez]

Ah man I cant wait for San Fran Rush Alcatraz, I never thought I would see the day.

[kainemaxwell]

Nice racing collection this time around. Also good they readded STUN Runner since it was cut from MAT2.

[Lady Jaye]

So, in your opinion, is this an interesting racing game compilation? I'm wondering cuz I never played any of them, even though I love racing games (personally I'm a Daytona USA fan, so I don't pay much attention to other racing games, although I did play some Cruisin' Exotica).

Actually, Midway could've included the Cruisin' series... that would've been cool!!!

And I really think they should consider also the pinball anthology idea. Between Bally and Williams, there's definitely enough games to pick from!

[Cmosfm]

YES!

Arcade perfect console versions of the Rush games! Oh man, this is good enough to make me want to cry.

The rest of the games are...well....decent. But nothing compared to the Rush games. I just wish they included the first one.

[chrisbid]

nice package, though 10 games wouldve been a better number than 8 (cruisin USA couldve been added)

i guess well never see Journey on one of these :P

[fishsandwich]

I'm persoanlly excited about Hydro Thunder... let's see how it stacks up to the DC game.

Race Drivin' and Hard Drivin' and wretched, horrible, dreadful games that should be forgotten.

Cheers

:/

[Sniderman]

Meh. My opinion of Midway at this point:

[norkusa]

YES!

Arcade perfect console versions of the Rush games!

Well, that remains to be seen. Some of the games in the last MAT compilation were pretty buggy, especially Hard Drivin'.

I'm keeping my fingers crossed though.

[goatdan]

Midway Arcade Treasures 3 Includes:

Eight classic arcade racing games including:

Hydro Thunder®
Off Road Thunder: Mud, Sweat 'N Gears™
San Francisco Rush The Rock: Alcatraz Edition™
San Francisco Rush 2049™

Holy crap! FOUR new-school racing titles that all have been popular as standalone games on ONE disc? I don't know if this sounds great or horrible.

I wonder how they will handle Rush. I would love it to be a port of the original arcade game, but could Midway do that and leave the Atari symbols in it? Or would Infogrames flip?

Very interesting though. I'll be interested to see it!

[CreamSoda]

Sorry to go off topic for a quick minute, but could someone please answer this question about the Midway Arcade Contimplations in general...

What versions should I start getting? the PS2 or Xbox edition?

Thanks very much, and sorry for going off topic. XD

[Arcade Antics]

I wonder how they will handle Rush. I would love it to be a port of the original arcade game, but could Midway do that and leave the Atari symbols in it? Or would Infogrames flip?

I don't see why Infogrames would have any say, Midway holds the rights to all the Atari coin stuff. Infogrames home Atari stuff is another deal.

[Graham Mitchell]

I've really enjoyed the Midway Arcade Treasures series. Volume 2 I thought was a bit weak, due to the heavy focus on fighting games (not my fave). It would be better if the game provided you with move lists, but it's not in the manual or anything.

This one should be good, though! I was wondering when S.T.U.N. Runner was going to resurface!

Does anyone know how midway got the rights to Super Off Road? That was made by the Leland corporation. Am I to assume they bought up Leland? If so, maybe we'll see Ataxx in the future....

[goatdan]

I wonder how they will handle Rush. I would love it to be a port of the original arcade game, but could Midway do that and leave the Atari symbols in it? Or would Infogrames flip?

I don't see why Infogrames would have any say, Midway holds the rights to all the Atari coin stuff. Infogrames home Atari stuff is another deal.

Infogrames home stuff is another deal, but part of the deal was that Atari Games couldn't release home games. That is why every home version of Rush that has been released has been a Midway game and why the Atari symbols that were all over the arcade game were edited out (on the coins, on some cars, etc).

Hasbro, when they owned Atari, threatened to sue Midway to try to get them to stop using the Atari Games name for the arcades, even though it had nothing to do with the home division. That's when Atari Games became Midway West, and why I don't trust it would be the true original version.

But I sure hope so

[bargora]

While I'm not really a racing fan, I enjoyed your new sig immensely, Mr. Meston. It's a good one, and clearly makes its point. (I must finish reading the book, which is lying (not laying) around here somewhere.)

[portnoyd]

Meh. My opinion of Midway at this point:

Fine by me. Just wish they packed a little more onto this one though.

dave

[YoshiM]

Sweeeeet. S.T.U.N. Runner and Super Off Road make this a must-have. The rest is just icing.

<--is a race game whore.

[Half Japanese]

Question: were the stunt tracks in SF Rush 2049 exclusive to the N64 version? If so, the thrill of the compilation just died a little.

In other news, this gives Midway something else to give away when you preorder one of their new full-priced games (something they've been doing since the first MAT).

[Leo_A]

They should've included Hydra, the Cruis'n series, Calilfornia Speed, and Danny Sullivan's Indy Heat (I guess you'd need the Indy license from Tony George which isn't cheap, and Danny Sullivan's permission on that one).

Nice to see Race Drivin' on here, despite some people not caring for it for some strange reason.