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General => Video Game Bored => Topic started by: ferrarimanf355 on January 23, 2009, 11:33:42 PM

Title: More Midway rememberance...
Post by: ferrarimanf355 on January 23, 2009, 11:33:42 PM: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOG7G9n4kl8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5k7rt_jTAhs&feature=related

This guy is the best thing to happen to YouTube. :-* (http://www.youtube.com/user/duncanfbrown)
Title: Re: More Midway rememberance...
Post by: demi on January 23, 2009, 11:37:03 PM: Remind me why I allow you to make threads.
Title: Re: More Midway rememberance...
Post by: y2kev on January 23, 2009, 11:39:52 PM: I was playing MK2 online before on PS3. Game is still so fun. Good old midway/williams.
Title: Re: More Midway rememberance...
Post by: cool breeze on January 24, 2009, 12:09:57 AM: I could never get into Mortal Kombat. It was always punch x5 or something, uppercut, repeat. Or if you're Liu Kang, forward forward kick or forward forward punch.
Title: Re: More Midway rememberance...
Post by: Rman on January 24, 2009, 12:14:08 AM: What happened with Midway? I haven't been keeping track of game news lately. I thought they were bought by an independent investor recently.
Title: Re: More Midway rememberance...
Post by: demi on January 24, 2009, 12:33:08 AM: Quote from: Rman on January 24, 2009, 12:14:08 AM
What happened with Midway? I haven't been keeping track of game news lately. I thought they were bought by an independent investor recently.

They'll announce their closure once Wheelman is released.
Title: Re: More Midway rememberance...
Post by: ferrarimanf355 on January 24, 2009, 12:37:40 AM: Quote from: Rman on January 24, 2009, 12:14:08 AM
What happened with Midway? I haven't been keeping track of game news lately. I thought they were bought by an independent investor recently.

They have a month to pay off some debt or they go into bankruptcy. Apparently, the sale triggered some bond repayments, and Midway got some deadline extensions... but right now, they're like Chrysler, a dead company walking.
Title: Re: More Midway rememberance...
Post by: bork on January 24, 2009, 02:03:23 AM: I'm kinda confused at the second video. Why does it mention Space Invaders and Ms. Pac-Man when pimping Midway shit?
Title: Re: More Midway rememberance...
Post by: ferrarimanf355 on January 24, 2009, 02:08:50 AM: Quote from: the lyte edge on January 24, 2009, 02:03:23 AM
I'm kinda confused at the second video. Why does it mention Space Invaders and Ms. Pac-Man when pimping Midway shit?
Midway published those titles in the US back in the day. Actually, Midway took a Pac-Man bootleg, repurposed into Ms. Pac-Man, and then gave the rights to Namco for fear of pissing them off. Now you know. :-*
Title: Re: More Midway rememberance...
Post by: bork on January 24, 2009, 11:41:40 AM: Quote from: ferrarimanf355 on January 24, 2009, 02:08:50 AM
Quote from: the lyte edge on January 24, 2009, 02:03:23 AM
I'm kinda confused at the second video. Why does it mention Space Invaders and Ms. Pac-Man when pimping Midway shit?
Midway published those titles in the US back in the day. Actually, Midway took a Pac-Man bootleg, repurposed into Ms. Pac-Man, and then gave the rights to Namco for fear of pissing them off. Now you know. :-*

Yeah I know that, but by the time that video was made, wasn't Namco publishing the games themselves? Not sure who had the Space Invaders IP at that point...
Title: Re: More Midway rememberance...
Post by: Phoenix Dark on January 24, 2009, 02:23:16 PM: Goro scared me in the first MK. I'd always go upstairs before he appeared on screen during the logo intro :lol

I thought MK was awesome for the same reasons I thought nu metal was awesome. It was edgy and violent as I was a kid. But even then I preferred SFII. I can play SFII to this day and still be amused...can't say that for MK