Over 40 Midway Manufacturing Arcade Games In Under 25 Minutes

This video features flyers and gameplay footage from over 40 different arcade games produced by Midway Manufacturing before they merged with Bally Pinball in 1982.
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[@williamcrowe2576]

4-Player Bowling Alley seems to have set the standard for trackball video bowling games over the years.

[@arostwocents]

Boot Hill looks awesome. More early games should have used that style of a solid background image

[@kenwheeler3637]

Love it. I remember most of these. It's mind blowing that some of these are around half a century old now.

[@keithfulkerson]

Bosconian still holds up. Love that game.

[@IsaacKuo]

Synapse Software made a good clone of Bosconian, Survivor, for the Atari 8-bits and C64. The design of the fortresses was a bit more challenging to navigate and attack.

[@billcook4768]

There were two midway collections for the Wii. Yes, I did pay extra to get the version with Bosconian. An all time classic game.

[@christophernuzzi2780]

14:32 Wow, Seawolf II is essentially the arcade version of Atari 2600 Air-Sea Battle.

[@TheLairdsLair]

Air Sea Battle was originally a port of the Atari arcade game Anti-Aircraft and then they added extra modes, one of which was no doubt inspired by Seawolf.

[@white-dragon4424]

Let me guess, someone at Midway was a big baseball fan?

[@bartdunbar5108]

Great video!

[@billcook4768]

As someone who played most of these games in the arcades “back in the day” I can honestly say… many of these games sucked. But gosh is it great to see them. Thanks. I especially appreciate the flyers.

[@colinmcdonald2499]

Is there anyway to post a list of release dates in the same order as the video? This would be useful for the pre 1980 titles and more obscure pre Merger titles. For example: the two western Shooters: Tombstone and (???) ( which clearly inspired the Atari VCS Outlaw).. which one came first? Tombstone with the analog overlay graphic. Looks to be a bit later. The glut of very similar baseball titles: japanese licenses? Man... That TV Basketball game is wretchid looking!!! Are the "TV" titles the oldest? This is the reason i would like to see the dates as part of the format ( chronologocal order maybe too).... Having grwon up in Chicagoland (Midway's home) a lot of these games are vaguely familiar. But being that didnt reach the height needed (our basic autonomy needed to be let loose in a restaurant game room) to play them until around 1981.... Some of these oldest versions were already relics by that time, having been moved aside (or re-cabinete?) for the newer more profitable ones. I am also curious in a few of them that you show the dual analog and digital game displays ( maybe sea wolf or another had red analog loading displays that actually were part of the game?).. Some of the sprites of the late 1970's titles are really great... They are coming into their own. A few of the games... Like "Shuffleboard" made me think " who needs video shuffleboard?" ( Real shuffleboard played at my grandparent's retirement complex was really a great game)... But then... As a tech demo, the physics of Shuffleboard.. actally look impressive. Great video overall. Thanks

[@TheLairdsLair]

Go to the Arcade History database, filter by manufacturer and then you can change the order by year or alphabetical. That is the website I use to compile all of these arcade videos 😊 www.arcade-history.com/index.php?page=database

[@neilthomas6042]

Interesting early games. One point I would like to make; is that you could state the name and year they were released. The posters and title screen are sometimes difficult to make out

[@elijahvincent985]

Phantom II is such an eye-ache. How in the world did it release in that state? The earlier and later games looked far more eye-pleasing than that! LOL. Also for those complaining about Namco and Taito games being on the list, they were distributed in the United States by Midway under license.

[@arostwocents]

Midways Clowns - license of or clone of Atari's 2600 game?

[@TheLairdsLair]

It's a license of Exidy's Circus, the game that Circus Atari ripped off.

[@DavidDatura]

Galaxian said by Namco not Midway 🤷‍♂️ and those monochromatic games look ancient and awful! Those colored gel screens making them look even more dated! The true color games so much more contemporary. Despite being from a similar time period. But wow, apart from a few classics. Midway put out a lot of duds too.

[@TheLairdsLair]

Midway licensed Galaxian for the west, Namco created the game and sold it in Japan. Just like Pac-Man, Bosconian, Rally-X, Space Invaders etc.

[@DavidDatura]

@@TheLairdsLair I see

[@LooneyViews]

Including games that were made by Namco & Taito? This looks like a lazy list.

[@TheLairdsLair]

Midway manufactured and distributed those games in the west, so they definitely count. It's hardly lazy, it's the reverse, because it shows I did thorough research and went to the trouble of including all their releases, rather than just a bundle people know about.

[@dreamcaster4754]

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