Midway Arcade Treasures 2 - Xbox

Love games in this pack. Cyberball is so much fun! Worth it just for cyberball. Can't go wrong with this one - waaay too much fun.

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I love the sheer volume of quality games on this compilation. You can't argue with having Mortal Kombat 1-3 in the original arcade format.

I bought this along with another Xbox game. I didn't realize it was for normal Xbox instead of the 360 when i first bought it. My other game I had bought worked perfectly on the 360, how ever this one did not. Now I am stuck with it for the moment. However this would have been a very good game.

So the visuals are crisp, but there is another aspect to experiencing these classic games, and it's called Audio!Actually it's only Gauntlet II and the video clips provided for certain games that I'm writing about, because the other games seem to be pretty fair. I was excited to get this title for both of these things, and was quickly disappointed with the muffled and scratchy sounding audio coming from it. The video clips are terrible, you can understand about half of what they are saying. You'd certainly expect a little more from a Dolby Digital audio output. It simply shouldn't have been released until the audio was up to par.So once again, I'm limited to playing Gauntlet II through MAME on PC, where the audio is flowing crystal clear like it was intended to be. Gauntlet II really does have some incredible sound effects, and it's a shame that it is hampered by this half-assed effort.Also, Hard Drivin' is extremely shaky, still playable, but not as enjoyable as it could be. A company released Race Drivin', the sequel, which includes the single track from this game and many more to the Sega Saturn in Japan nearly 10 years ago and I have it, and can tell you it is alot better port than this one, it also included a "remixed" version with interesting music and more in depth graphical backgrounds such as waterfalls and mountains to see.P.S. Why did they once again skip Moon Patrol & Burgertime? These games are essential where many on this compilation are unheard of...

Warning, this is does *NOT* work on the Xbox 360!I saw a recent nostalgia article on several of the games, and picked up this collection expecting to play it in emulation mode on my 360, and it does work. Now to drag the xbox out of the closet...

Excellent quality for used product. No scratches , exceeded expectations

THE SHORT: The ridiculously cheap price is worth spending on some of these games on their own, let alone in a double digit package. But while most of the games run great, there are some slight issues here and there that make some of these games not quite arcade-perfect.THE LONG: I love Mortal Kombat II. Adore it. I always have, and though the SNES version was great in 1994, no console has ever had an accurate version of it. That's why this was an exciting release- it promised arcade accurate versions of this game as well as a bunch of other good ones. And if you're just thinking about getting this now, then you didn't have to go through the debacle of having the original Mortal Kombat removed from the package and thrown onto the more cost-prohibitive MK: Deception.So I checked out message boards and waited for the game, and once it came out and I chatted with others, I noticed a disturbing trend: no one console had a release of this collection that was entirely flawless. The PS2 supposedly had trouble with, I believe, Hard Drivin', and the Gamecube had sound problems or something. The Xbox version was supposed to be flawed in some way too, but I honestly can't remember what that was supposed to have been. All I know is that I was a devoted MKII fan to notice some fanboyish inaccuracies. I won't go into them all here, and while there aren't a lot they are noticeable: stuff like flickering shadows when a character jumps, and screams that go on past death when a character lands in the Pit, etc.But for every thing the programmers somehow messed up, there are ten it gets right. MKII, as with all others on the disc except for the somewhat muffled MK3, has sound so crisp I'd forgotten how much better it was than past console offerings. The graphics are sharp and the colors bold, and the animation is fluid and correct to how I recall it. Nothing is left out, not even something that a great deal of players never knew about MKII: The computer fights more lazily and gets worked into patterns more easily when using controller 2. This strange, small trick, as well as others such as Shang Tsung's Sub Zero freeze/ fatality skin glitch, were emulated perfectly.But that's the thing- there are still disappointments despite these best intentions. In making the game, someone neglected to re-map the start button. In MKII, pressing start was part of two tricks- selecting a random fighter and accessing hidden character Smoke, but since pressing start in this collection brings up the main pause menu, start is rendered obsolete in-game so apparently these details are inaccessible. That's probably the biggest mistake, and while it doesn't make the package suck, it'd definitely worth mentioning.Otherwise, the collection is pretty fine. Most of these games are well suited to the Xbox or PS2 controller's simple layout (The GC controller is absurd for the fighting games) and more importantly, the rest of the games seem about the same as I remember them in the arcade. Like with me and MKII, it would take a devoted veteran to notice any changed details that aren't egregious. More so than the original Midway Treasures, this disc has some great titles- 90's classics such as Narc, Primal Rage, Total Carnage, and of course MKII and 3 are on a disc that by this point costs less than twenty bucks. At that price, imperfections and all, it's hard to pass up on such a modern collection of proven greats.