7:44 AM on 07.11.2008
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MidwayArcade.com is exactly as it sounds. More than 25 of Midway's arcade classics and touchscreen games can be downloaded and played on your PC. Titles like Defender, APB, Joust, and Gauntlet II and be downloaded for as low as $5 for 3 games. Midway has also announced a digital storefront at Midway.com. This site features more recent Midway releases, like Unreal Tournament 3 or Blacksite Area 51, for prices starting at about $10. "The Midway brand has a long and rich history of fast-paced and addictive games from our arcade and touchscreen heritage," said Mona Hamilton, vice president, marketing, Midway Home Entertainment. "The new digital storefront at midway.com and the casual games site at midwayarcade.com allow us to deliver these classics, favorites and recent releases directly to a wide-range of Midway fans." Are you down with the old Midway games? Wait, don't you have a couple of the Midway collections already? Hit the jump for a full list of games offered on MidwayArcade.com. Arcade Games - APB™, Arch Rivals®, Cyberball™, Defender®, Gauntlet® 2, Rampage®, Rootbeer Tapper®, Spy Hunter®, Joust®, Primal Rage®, Super Offroad®, Total Carnage™, Wizard of Wor®, Robotron: 2084®. Titles from the Midway arcade catalog are available for purchase in bundles of 3 for US$5, 5 for US$8 and 7 for US$10. All 14 Midway arcade titles can be purchased for US$15. Touchmaster® Games - 3 Peak Deluxe®, 5 Star Generals®, Crystal Balls®, Gem Slide®, Go Wild™, Mahjongg Pairs, Mahki®, Powercell®, Solitaire, Target 21®, Trivia, Word Search, Wordz®. Casual Touchmaster games are available for US$5 each. |
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Why would they try to sell Gauntlet or Joust? O_o; Why? They would make more money simply offering them for free via flash and selling ad space for all the sales that shit's gonna get.
good question. Especially if all the arcade titles sell for $15
This is a genius idea. The only better idea would be something that could play all arcade roms something like a Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator. We could even give it a cool short name like MAME or something.
I support Jetsetlemming's idea!
they do, if you go to their website there is an icon in the top right corner for classic games, click on it and voila play till your heart stops.
Kind of a good idea
I think this idea is kind of <s>l</s>mame. See what I did there?
This would have been a great idea about 10 years ago... by now, pretty much everyone interested in any of these games already has them.
Exactly,between multiple arcade compilation discs and XBLA offerings most everyone who wants any of these games bought them a long time ago.
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