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Kotaku 
07/11/09
"A handful of Midway employees have publicly mourned the passing of Midway Games on Twitter, which originally began life as the Midway Mfg. Co. in 1958."
Link, plz? I just wanna read what they tweeted...
08/05/09
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07/10/09
Midway Mfg Co. has been making arcae amusements (and later pinball and video games) since 1958. That makes the company 40 YEARS OLD! This makes it the oldest gaming company in the united states and the second oldest gaming company period. (Nintendo being the oldest.)
Japan had it's hands full with it's local arcade business and thus hird Bally/Midway to distribute space invaders and pacman to the western world. In other words midway was responsible for the great arcade boom of the 80's!
Midway took it upon itself to purchase the rights to a crappy pac-man knockoff called crazy otto from a puny little company. They fixed it up and presented it to namco for approval. The game became Ms. Pacman. So yes midway is responsible for Ms. Pacman!
The bally sub-company produced over 50% of the pinball machines in the united states up until 1999 making it the second oldest pinball company in the united states.
Midway games division had a number of first including the first true multi-staged game (gorf) and some of the first games to used recorded speech and image captured graphics. (Journey arcade game and later games like narc, and MK).
Mortal Kombat was cited as one of the main reasons for the implementation of the ESRB.
MK was so popular that in the 16 bit era it was cited as the main reason for the genesis to gain larger user bases in some regions (snes mk didn't have blood.)
So don't think it's just some no-nothing company. Midway literally made Western gaming what it is today and we should all be grateful.
Also one last tidbit as a warning to warner brothers. Midway has been aquired twice in it's history... by Bally, then Williams. In both instances the "parent" companies withered and died while Midway grew stronger... carrying along the resources of the parents until finally absorbing them back into midway.
So you can't kill Midway WB... you can only feed it until it kills you!
Fatality! ;)
07/10/09
"Yellow Bugs Needs Food Badly!"
"Nyaaah.. *chompchomp* What's up Orc?"
*edit* Nevermind
07/10/09
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07/10/09
If they can make it better than Kingdom Hearts I'm all for a little crossdressing rpg fun with the wabbit.
07/11/09
07/10/09
A shame, then, that Midway fades with a limp and a gold watch.
07/10/09
06/20/09
Some sort of super complex fatality in which you rip peoples heads off by pulling their spinal chord out of their anus while fondling their breasts and raping them.
Yeah, that will put MK back in the limelight.
06/19/09
MK is like Nuke Nukem- a product of a different time that really wasn't all that great to begin with.
Go ahead. Flame me for saying it.
06/19/09
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06/19/09
If you ask me, they've been going downhill since 2, with everything from Mortal Kombat 4 and on being complete garbage.
06/19/09
Nuh uh.
MK: Trilogy is still the best of the series.
3D ruined it, imho.
06/19/09
3 was the best um was 4 when it turned 3d couse i couldent stand it then
but ya i rember being a lil kid and playing and every one was just watching and doing the fatalities for me (since i must have been what 10 at the (what did the first one come out like 20 years ago or something?)
06/19/09
You might have overlooked MK: Trilogy
It was the last 2D MK, and took all the characters from the first three games and put them in one huge game.
06/19/09
I know Ed was talking about it.
I know it was in the works but these talks fall apart.
And I know I personally would buy fifteen copies. Brand new. Day one. Why? Because I'm crazy. But I know everyone else would buy at least one.
06/19/09
Such a shame, really. Most of the kids who play video games nowadays don't remember the days where Mortal Kombat games were actually good. Killer Instinct, too.
06/19/09
I think the mechanics need to be a little more fast paced. I mean, we are dealing with (some) immortal or superior beings. You'd think they'd be able to swing a punch a little faster. And if you're going to be putting in kick-ass blood and gore, you need the most kick-ass blood and gore/ps as you can get.
06/19/09
It's "slow" because it's supposed to be that way.
06/19/09