MIDWAY SET TO DELIVER ANOTHER
FEAST OF OLD SCHOOL DELICACIES WITH MIDWAY® ARCADE TREASURES 2™
Midway Arcade Treasures 2 Brings
Back More Than 20 Arcade Classics Including All-Time Favorites Such As the
Original Mortal Kombat®, NARC®, Cyberball 2072™ and Arch Rivals™
CHICAGO – April 26, 2004 – Midway
Games Inc. (NYSE: MWY), a leading interactive entertainment industry publisher
and developer, today announced Midway Arcade Treasures 2, a compilation of
classic Midway arcade games together on one disk. The sequel to the successful
2003 launch of Midway Arcade Treasures, Midway Arcade Treasures 2 is currently
in development and scheduled to ship Fall 2004 for the PlayStation®2 computer
entertainment system, the Xbox® video game system from Microsoft and the
Nintendo GameCube™ with a suggested retail price of $19.99.
Midway Arcade Treasures 2 features
hundreds of hours of classic gameplay action from all-time arcade favorites
including the blood-spurting intensity of Mortal Kombat, Mortal Kombat® II and
Mortal Kombat® 3, the multiplayer collaboration of Gauntlet® 2, the drug-busting
adventure of NARC and the no-holds-barred street fighting action of Pit
Fighter™, just to name a few.
"Midway Arcade Treasures has been so
well-received that it was an easy decision to give gamers more of what they want
while, at the same time, help to evolve Midway’s classic arcade titles to
today’s next generation gaming consoles," said Steve Allison, chief marketing
officer, Midway. "Midway Arcade Treasures 2 features many of the arcade era’s
biggest hits such as, Mortal Kombat, Primal Rage® and Cyberball 2072 that once
ruled arcades across the nation."
With Midway Arcade Treasures 2,
gamers will have the option of enjoying their favorite games in
one-to-four-player game formats, depending on the title, and will experience a
collection of classic titles that represent a fresh, new era in gaming relative
to other "classic" game compilations. The bonus DVD content in the game will
also feature several classic video montages of original commercials, launch
trailers and making of the game videos for several of the classic arcade titles
included on the disk.
Midway Arcade Treasures 2 Includes:
More than 20 classic arcade games
including: A.P.B.™ %0 Arch Rivals Championship Sprint™ Cyberball 2072 Gauntlet 2
Hard Drivin’® Mortal Kombat Mortal Kombat II Mortal Kombat III NARC Pit Fighter
Primal Rage Rampage World Tour Spy Hunter® 2 Steel Talons™ STUN Runner™ Timber™
Total Carnage Wizard of Wor™ Xenophobe® Xybots™
– Nonstop Action – Hundreds of hours
of classic gameplay action – Multiplayer Gameplay – One-to-four player gameplay
– Xbox Live – Post high scores and decide the world champion
Midway Games Inc. is a leading
developer, publisher and marketer of interactive entertainment software. Midway
videogames are available for play on all major videogame platforms including the
PlayStation®2 computer entertainment system, Xbox, Nintendo GameCubeTM and Game
Boy® Advance.
For more information about Midway
Games and Midway Arcade Treasure 2, visit
www.midway.com.
Midway, Midway Arcade Treasures,
Mortal Kombat, Spy Hunter, Rampage World Tour, Total Carnage, NARC, Arch Rivals
and Xenophobe are trademarks of Midway Amusement Games, LLC. Gauntlet, Pit
Fighter and Primal Rage are trademarks of Midway Games West Inc. "PlayStation"
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Entertainment Inc. Xbox is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation in
the United States and/or other countries. Nintendo GameCube and Game Boy Advance
are trademarks of Nintendo. 2001 Nintendo. All other trademarks are the
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soley as a convenience to you. The information on these sites has been prepared
by third parties, and Midway does not monitor, endorse or accept responsibility
for the content on non-Midway sites. "This press release contains
forward-looking statements concerning future business conditions and the outlook
for Midway Games Inc. (the "Company") based on currently available information
that involve risks and uncertainties. The Company’s actual results could differ
materially from those anticipated in the forward-looking statements as a result
of these risks and uncertainties, including, without limitation, the financial
strength of the interactive entertainment industry, dependence on new product
introductions and the ability to maintain the scheduling of such introductions,
technological changes, dependence on major platform manufacturers and other
risks more fully described under "Item 1. Business – Risk Factors" in our Annual
Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2003, and in the other more
recent filings made by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission."
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