The coin-op arcade may be dead, but they live on in their original form on the Wii Virtual Console, Xbox Live, and finally making a debut on the PS3 Network. Six classic Midway games are PS3 bound as individual downloads: Mortal Kombat II, Rampart, Gauntlet, Joust, Championship Sprint, and Rampage World Tour. With the exception of the analog-adapted gameplay of the racing game, the experience is exactly what the hardware gamer wants -- responsive no-fuss classic joystick control with a few extra bells and whistles. Screenshots, impressions, launch details follow...
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It turns out that many moons ago, Microsoft once had its eye on the Sony published LittleBigPlanet series.
Microsoft in a nutshell. Always tried to poach Sony employees, games, 3rd party games and devices like the depth camera that was turned into Kinect but was running on PS2 before Xbox 360. Wouldn't be surprised they wanted LBP. Just like they worked behind the scenes pushing the MLB to bring Sony's baseball game to Xbox instead of making their own.
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They didn't spend years trying to develop their own baseball game. They wanted Sony's game.
They're scum.
"However, Healey said Media Molecule wouldn't have felt right doing that, adding it would have been "morally corrupt"."
Major kudos to Media Molecule for being an upright studio with principles.
Great, more stories like this please. Show the last of the zombies holding the line what we've been saying for years: Microsoft is anti competition, anti industry and has no interest in making games at all.
But hey, at least there's an Xbox Games Showcase to look forward to, right?
Well considering SONY just killed the series, LBP would've been dead by now either way. Though MM probably wouldn't exist by now either, so I'm glad they stayed with SONY, hopefully they don't get shut down any time soon or ever honestly.
Awesome,I used too love them midway arcade classics.
Have they added online play? Thats the only reason I buy some of the old games on LIVE.. being able to play Contra and others online is fantastic. Worth the price.
thanks for announcing the next midway XBLA release :)