Midway Arcade Treasures: Extended Play is a video game compilation of Midway, Atari and Williams arcade game classics released in 2005 for the PlayStation Portable. Midway Arcade Treasures: Extended Play was re-released for the PlayStation Store on June 28, 2010 by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment due to Midway's bankruptcy, also meaning that Warner Bros. owns rights to most of the Midway, Atari and Williams arcade library after the purchase of some assets of Midway Games.
| Midway Arcade Treasures: Extended Play | |
|---|---|
 European box art of the game | |
| Developer(s) | Backbone Entertainment |
| Publisher(s) | Midway Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment |
| Platform(s) | PlayStation Portable |
| Release | |
| Genre(s) | Various |
| Mode(s) | Single-player and multiplayer (depending on the game) |
The list contains a total of 21 games including 7 golden-age titles such as Defender, Joust, Marble Madness, Paperboy, Sinistar, Spy Hunter and Wizards of Wor.
Games included
edit- 720° (1986)
- Arch Rivals (1989)
- Championship Sprint (1986)
- Cyberball 2072 (1988)
- Defender (1981)
- Gauntlet (1985)
- Joust (1982)
- Klax (1989)
- Marble Madness (1984)
- Mortal Kombat (1992)
- Mortal Kombat 2 (1993)
- Mortal Kombat 3 (1995)
- Paperboy (1984)
- Rampage (1986)
- Rampart (1990)
- Sinistar (1982)
- Spy Hunter (1983)
- Toobin' (1988)
- Wizard of Wor (1980)
- Xenophobe (1987)
- Xybots (1987)
Reception
edit| Aggregator | Score |
|---|---|
| GameRankings | 62%[2] |
| Metacritic | 63%[3] |
| Publication | Score |
|---|---|
| Computer and Video Games | 7/10[4] |
| GameSpot | 5.2/10[5] |
| GameZone | 6.9/10[6] |
| IGN | 6/10[7] |
Midway Arcade Treasures: Extended Play was given mixed reviews from game critics. On the review aggregator Game Rankings, the game has an average score of 62%, based on 35 reviews.[2] On Metacritic, the game has an average score of 63 out of 100, based on 24 reviews.[3] The collection has been criticized for lacking bonus content, the absence of Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3, also for its "bare-bones" presentation, lengthy load times, and for making some games look "stretched", (like Paperboy), or "shrunk", (like Sinistar), although one can press the L trigger and hit the Square button when a game is paused to enable a secret functionality that displays the games in their original aspect ratio.[8]
References
edit- ^ "Midway Press Release: PR 2005-12-12 B". 2006-11-11. Archived from the original on 2006-11-11. Retrieved 2023-03-19.
- ^ a b "Midway Arcade Treasures: Extended Play - PSP Reviews". GameRankings. Retrieved 2008-11-16.
- ^ a b "Midway Arcade Treasures: Extended Play (psp: 2005): Reviews". Metacritic. Retrieved 2008-11-16.
- ^ "PSP Review: Midway Arcade Treasures: Extended Play". Computer and Video Games. 2005-12-05. Retrieved 2008-11-16.
- ^ "Midway Arcade Treasures: Extended Play Review". GameSpot. 2005-12-15. Retrieved 2008-11-16.
- ^ "Midway Arcade Treasures: Extended Play Review - PSP". GameZone. 2006-03-01. Archived from the original on 2008-10-05. Retrieved 2008-11-16.
- ^ "IGN: Midway Arcade Treasures: Extended Play Review". IGN. 2006-02-06. Retrieved 2008-11-16.
- ^ "Midway Arcade Treasures: Extended Play". 14 February 2006.