Top 5 Midway Games

Midway games is an awesome video game companies in 80's to 2000's. They are big known for vintage arcade games and pinball machines that created their legacy. We have fighting games, shooting games, sports games and many of the game genres that Midway made really great games on arcade cabinet and console gaming back in the old days. Too bad Midway have been shut down since 2009, due to chapter 11 bankruptcy, but we all always remember this company brought us a brilliant games on gaming generations.

Here is my Top 5 Midway Games that I really liked on my list. 

5 - Sinistar

Sinistar is the vertical scroll shooter games, developed by Williams Electronics. It's very known for big nemesis himself Sinistar is a big spacecraft villains that is been built by enemies worker ships. It has a cool catchphrases in entire games, like he says "Beware I live", "Beware coward", "I hunger", "Run Run Run", "I am Sinistar" and his badass roaring chant, what makes Sinistar an awesome villain in video game. So you are playing as the spaceship has the mission to defeat Sinistar by using Sinibombs that can be found on asteroids rock. I've enjoyed playing this game, when I've played it on SNES version as part of the William's Arcade Greatest Hits, because I like gaining the high scores and moving on the next challenge what makes the game more interesting. If you're a fan of the scroll shooter games like this, then you should pick up for the console versions.


4 - Defender

This game is the golden age of 80's gaming. Defender is a top notch horizontal scroll shooter is also developed by Williams Electronics. It becoming very popular in 1980's that defines the shooter genre and it sold very well for the arcade version. What I like about the game is where you just shoot the crap of the alien's ship to save the humans in the planet. You can gain more high scores and moving on next wave to make the game more challenged and fun to play.
It has brilliant graphics with excellent 2D colorful effects and it has the best sounds atmosphere in gaming history. It is very addicting to play, which took us to play more than the hours on console version. If you wanted to play this, then grab the game for console version.


3 - Midway Sports Games

I love playing arcade sports games. Midway really knows how to make a fantastic sport games brought on home consoles. It has a tons of choices to play, like Arch Rivals, NBA Jam, NBA on NBC Showtime, NFL Blitz 2000 and 01, and NHL Hitz 2002 are the best of all in the sports games genres. Instead of making a game look realistic, we all need a fun packed sports games that plays like a real arcade games, which makes the game more entertaining to play. I've played the Midway sports games lot of time since I've first started played NBA on NBC Showtime for SEGA Dreamcast and NHL Hitz 2002 on Nintendo Gamecube are really makes me wanna play more and more. If you're into the sports games, then you should try them on home consoles.



2 - Smash TV

Oh yeah, Smash TV is the Running Man of top down shooter games. You're playing as two badass contestants has the mission to survive through deadliest game show arena and win the prizes, yeah that's what game is about. This game is so much fun on the arcade with twin joystick, where you can shoot on any direction makes the controls so precised and balanced. You just shoot tons of bad guys with cool power ups, and collecting money and prizes from bonus level. The game is later coming out on home consoles and many fans and critics believe that the SNES version is the best ported game on the system, due to SNES controls layout are far similar methods as the arcade twin joystick. So if you like mulitidirectional shooter, then go pick this game for SNES.



1 - Mortal Kombat

MORTAL KOMBAT!!! is the bloodiest fighting games on the series. The arcade version was released in 1992 and gained many more attention to fighting games fans alike. While the game have becoming popular on the arcade version, the game is later ported to the home consoles, like SNES and SEGA Genesis. Many gamers said that SEGA Genesis are the only one of the decent arcade to console conversions, due to featuring blood content and more fatalities than the SNES version. This game features a memorable characters, like Kano, Liu Kang, Raiden, Johnny Cage, Scorpion, Sub Zero and Sonya Blade are taking part in the bloodiest tournament. It is famous for having digitized characters and bloody graphics while performing fatalities moves are also becoming the most controversial video game of the decides. So if you like the goriest games like this game, then you should go pick up for SEGA Genesis version or PSN and XBLA version as the part of the Mortal Kombat Arcade Kollection.