Midway Arcade Treasures

[skelly]

It may be that you read GameSpot's otherwise really good reviews, which happened to be identical for both PS2 and Xbox. I reviewed both for my site, though, and found Smash TV to run fine on Xbox and crap on PS2. Perhaps I am missing something a purist would notice on Xbox ... but it seemed fine.

[Videodrone]

And Videodrone, it kind of skimps on the historical extras. Most of it seems drawn from the past PSX releases.

That's a shame...but, it is only 20 bucks, so I'll probably still get it.

[Jeremy]

Just snatched it up today, and barring not being able to choose your character in Smash TV, Rampage, and Gauntlet, and the horrid hyroglyphics icons used for the games on the menu, and the crummy video quality for some of the videos, and not being able to have a "play all" option for the clips, I've got no complaints.

[Super-Eggroll]

Just snatched it up today, and barring not being able to choose your character in Smash TV, Rampage, and Gauntlet, and the horrid hyroglyphics icons used for the games on the menu, and the crummy video quality for some of the videos, and not being able to have a "play all" option for the clips, I've got no complaints.

By "not being able to choose your character", do you mean that the characters are controller-specific (IE: Player 1 is the Wizard, Player 2 is the Elf, etc.) or do they just stick you with the Warrior and that's it?

Not too concerned with the video quality of the bonus stuff myself - but if the games are jacked with in any way I think I'll pass.

[Jeremy]

Player 1- Warrior (Gauntlet), Red Guy (Smash TV), George (Rampage)
The PS2 version doesn't have this problem, yet is apparantly iffy for Smash TV. I hope that the GC version suffers from none of the problems in the current versions of this compilation.

[Super-Eggroll]

Player 1- Warrior (Gauntlet), Red Guy (Smash TV), George (Rampage)
The PS2 version doesn't have this problem, yet is apparantly iffy for Smash TV. I hope that the GC version suffers from none of the problems in the current versions of this compilation.

Can you switch controller ports if you want to play someone else in a single-player game, or do they still give you the 'default' character?

I suppose if it's decided on controller-ports, it'd be somewhat faithful to the arcade versions - but a character select screen wouldn't have taken them that much effort to add. Seems silly.

[Jeremy]

I'm not sure about that, so I'll check.

Edit- Just checked it out with Rampage, same thing even though my controller was in the second port. Very odd little oversight for this version of the game, which is a shame. Also, Rampage features much better animation in this version than it did on the previous compilation it was on, which I think was the Arcade Party Pak on the PSX.

[Dolemite]

Smash TV runs like crap on the PS2? Shit...define "crap". I mean, are we talking rampant slowdown or what?

[MonsterMash]

You can select players. It's in the options menu before you start a game.

I have the Xbox version. No complaints.

[Jeremy]

You can? Cool. I kind of wish that more of the games had developer/publisher videos to go along with them.

Edit - Not seeing where you can do that via the options area for the games.