Comments on: Midway’s Online Arcade

By: Dray

Dray — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 16:03:23 +0000

*shudders at typo and wonders why ‘edit’ feature isn’t there at the moment*

By: Dray

Dray — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 16:01:46 +0000

I never finished Spy Hunter either. Loved every damn minute of it mind. Ah back in the old days where 10p could get you a game of Spy Hunter. *sigh*

Came first place in some crappy motorbike racer 2 weeks ago in Brighton though. Totally kicked my girlfriend and her sisters arse.

Yeah I know their girls but it still counts! Doesn’t it? :|

By: mrrobsa

mrrobsa — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 13:11:35 +0000

@Radiant:

Hahaha, nice story, I had a similar folly at school where I copied a poem from a book about ‘Peter the Penguin’ rather than write my own. Unfortunately it was rather too good for the mind of an 8 year old, which led to my teacher asking whether I’d wrote it. After convincing her that I had, my lie was stuck to the wall and haunted my primary school years, but I was never rumbled.

As for dabbling with the BBC computer, I wrote my own BASIC ‘chat’ programs where I could ‘converse’ with the machine so I must have been a lonely plagiarist. Maybe the amazing poetry I kept writing alienated me from my classmates. It’s tough at the top.

Never finished Spy Hunter either.

By: DigitalRiverSucksAss

DigitalRiverSucksAss — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 11:17:29 +0000

By the way, after reading this article, I was reminded of the glory days of Defender, Stargate, Joust, Robotron… and visited the MidwayArcade.com website.

There I purchased their “Ultra Arcade Mega Deluxe” package of classic arcade games for PC. Their e-commerce provider is Digital River.

Suffice it to say, my serial number fails to activate the product, and the support link on their page gives a 404 error.

The best I can get now is the promise of a response from a Digital River customer service rep in “2 business days”.

It’s 07:15 and I’m still up from last night’s EVE Online session, and I figured I could afford the fifteen bucks for this classic arcade pack because, yes, I ate Stouffers frozen French-bread pizza yesterday instead of ordering out.

My impulse buy? It’s giving me the impulse to say nasty things about Digital River, and Midway for using them. Instead of the joy I should be immersed in, having installed and launched my shiny new nostalgic purchase.

If you want to play a wholly great Stargate: Defender port, open source, check out “Defense Condition” at http://www.daylongraphics.com/products/defcon/ .

No matter how much you would love to play your old favorites, DO NOT do business with Midway until they find an e-commerce solution that isn’t criminally incompetent.

You have been warned.

By: EyeMessiah

EyeMessiah — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 22:46:03 +0000

Good work Dave. I knew you’d come through.

Also. Freespace 2? Giants? Flashpoint? That is a nice lineup!!

By: Fesarius

Fesarius — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 17:08:27 +0000

Can’t wait for GoG, hopefully we’ll see the old bullfrog titles on there.

By: sluzzuls

sluzzuls — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 16:24:28 +0000

wow. used to be you could just go to their site to play robotron. now i get why they never fixed teh arcadeemulator2 xtra. they need the five bucks. cuz of gas prices and all.

and i’ll finish that vent off w/ur midway arcade site looks like a child made it! so there.

By: Radiant

Radiant — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 16:23:55 +0000

btw has anyone actually finished Spy Hunter?
I kept getting to the snow bit and have never ever got past it.

By: Radiant

Radiant — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 16:19:10 +0000

If it makes you feel better I told my primary school music teacher I made the Sanxion loading music, the one that came on the zapp 64 demo cassette.
I told her this in private.
She thought I was a genius.
I was put up in front of the entire school assembly whilst it played and I just stood there looking at 200 odd kids and teachers smiling back at me in awe.
The only person who suspected anything was my Cello teacher because she knew I was the worst fucking musician in the history of musical instruments.

By: houseinrlyeh

houseinrlyeh — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 16:08:07 +0000

Sacrifice? Fallout 2 (I hope the non-European version)? Plus the promise of having everything XP-ready? Makes for a happy guy here.

By: Lukasz

Lukasz — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:51:12 +0000

S-s-sacrifice?

All hail Allah!

By: jeffk

jeffk — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:44:10 +0000

GoG definitely has me interested. For a PC gaming venture, though, their site’s design makes it look like an Apple service. Those are definitely iChat bubbles, and is that a Mac running Leopard at the bottom? And can they make that happen so I don’t have to go back to Windows?