''Midway Arcade Treasures: Extended Play'' is a video game compilation of Midway,

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and Williams

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classics released in 2005 for the

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. ''Midway Arcade Treasures: Extended Play'' was re-released for the

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on June 28, 2010 by

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due to Midway's bankruptcy, also meaning that

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owns rights to most of the Midway, Atari and Williams arcade library after the purchase of some assets of Midway Games. The list contains a total of 21 games including 7 golden-age titles such as ''Defender, Joust, Marble Madness, Paperboy, Sinistar, Spy Hunter'' and ''Wizards of Wor''.

Games included

Reception

''Midway Arcade Treasures: Extended Play'' was given mixed reviews from game critics. On the review aggregator Game Rankings, the game has an average score of 62%, based on 35 reviews. On Metacritic, the game has an average score of 63 out of 100, based on 24 reviews. The collection has been criticized for lacking bonus content, the absence of ''

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'', also for its "bare-bones" presentation, lengthy load times, and for making some games look "stretched", (like ''Paperboy''), or "shrunk", (like ''Sinistar''), although one can press the L trigger and hit the Square button when a game is paused to enable a secret functionality that displays the games in their original aspect ratio.

References

External links

''Midway Arcade Treasures 2: Extended Play'' media and information archive at Total Mortal Kombat

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