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Midway sold
« on: December 02, 2008, 10:58:54 AM »
as i said before if thier new game mk vs dc tanked midway will be no more and well read on i guess

http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?story=56160

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Re: Midway sold
« Reply #1 on: December 02, 2008, 03:54:43 PM »
$100,000?  Ouuuuccchhh.

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Re: Midway sold
« Reply #2 on: December 02, 2008, 06:21:04 PM »
Damn...you could get every single arcade game that Midway ever put out for that price(hell it would probably cost more)...

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Re: Midway sold
« Reply #3 on: December 02, 2008, 11:16:15 PM »
I think their glory days ended about around 10 years ago anyway, ever since 3D became a mainstay they haven't (to my knowledge) put out anything that sold very well. I remember buying the first 3D mortal kombat, thinking how awesome it was going to be.

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Re: Midway sold
« Reply #4 on: December 03, 2008, 01:03:06 AM »
Their best games were Marble Madness and NFL Blitz and Gauntlet Legends, and Joust :)

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Re: Midway sold
« Reply #5 on: December 03, 2008, 01:11:08 AM »
Marble madness! niiiiiiiice. :D

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Re: Midway sold
« Reply #6 on: December 03, 2008, 01:15:02 AM »
I LOVED marble madness! I wish it was on XBLA but instead we got some dumb "Marble Blast Ultra" that is very much like Super Monkey Ball

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Re: Midway sold
« Reply #7 on: December 03, 2008, 02:44:23 AM »
NBA Jam?
Hydro Thunder?

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Re: Midway sold
« Reply #8 on: December 03, 2008, 02:48:31 AM »
welll this just sucks, I hope they dont go bust. they made some pretty sick games over their life time.
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Re: Midway sold
« Reply #9 on: December 03, 2008, 05:59:59 AM »
Oops sorry, yeah NBA Jam was pretty cool :)

so where did they go wrong? :(

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Re: Midway sold
« Reply #10 on: December 03, 2008, 06:25:33 AM »
They went wrong when they freaking would mis-manage budgets on games, and then mis-market them. I'm sure boon will end up somewhere though like a cheap whore... (hopefully raping the MK license to allow for capcom vs MK)

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Re: Midway sold
« Reply #11 on: December 03, 2008, 09:15:54 AM »
Hydro Thunder is da poop!  I love playing that in the arcade!  Out of nostalga, I fired up NBA Jam on MAME today....good times  :(

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Re: Midway sold
« Reply #12 on: December 03, 2008, 04:22:00 PM »
NBA Jam?
NBA jam was the shit.i used to play that game for hours on end in the arcades.ahh those were the good ol' times  :'(

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Re: Midway sold
« Reply #13 on: December 04, 2008, 04:18:52 AM »
as much as I love midway and mortal kombat, I prety much figured it was the end when mk vs dc was announced.