Midway Arcade Origins ($30)

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Sounds like this is going to be another half-assed ROM run by Backbone Entertainment.

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The collection has been updated with Achievement and trophy support as well as added local co-op multiplayer and online leaderboards for a select number of titles. Midway Arcade Origins is in development at Backbone Entertainment and will retail for $29.99 when it lands in stores Novemeber 13.

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A.P.B.
Arch Rivals
Bubbles
Championship Sprint
Tournament Cyberball 2072
Defender
Defender II
Gauntlet
Gauntlet II
Joust
Joust 2
Marble Madness
Pit-Fighter
Rampage
Rampart
Robotron 2084
Root Beer Tapper
Satan’s Hollow
Sinistar
Smash TV
Spy Hunter
Spy Hunter II
Super Off Road
Super Sprint
Toobin’
Total Carnage
Vindicators Part II
Wizard of Wor
Xenophobe
Xybots

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Pass.

Not impressed. ROM pack of early 80s shit should have more than these compilations had 10 years ago. Put 100 games on that shit and we'll talk.

If I were going to play most of that stuff in 2012, I'd get another Lynx.

That sounds pretty much like the PS2 and Xbox collections, without the Mortal Kombats. For $30? Pass.

Unless it finally has a emulation of Spy Hunter that actually feels right on the controller, the other collections never got that right. If it does, I'll pick it up for $10 in 6 months.

Did Midway make "Pigskin"? I always associated that game with Arch-Rivals for some reason.

I'm still waiting for a good port of STUN RUNNER.

The version that was on Midway Arcade Treasures 3 ran like shit.

So this comes out to around a dollar a game, and that's a problem, but a lot of you guys had no problem paying ten bucks each for Simpsons arcade and X-Men arcade.

Those had online co-op. I'm betting these do not.

I'd totally buy this if I just got 30 more machines in my 360 virtual arcade or whatever that thing is called that no one cared about.

There's no online play in this aside from the leaderboards on a few of the games.

Since these don't have online, you can basically pickup the same thing plus even more games if you just stick with Midway Arcade Treasures 1, 2 and 3.