Midway Arcade Origins: Play 31 Arcade Classics Today on PS3

[Commander Fury]

Today, <a href="http://blog.us.playstation.com/tag/backbone/">Backbone</a> is excited to give <a href="http://blog.us.playstation.com/category/ps3/">PS3</a> owners a chance to truly test their old-school arcade skills. For those of you who can actually remember having to put tokens or quarters into an actual Joust or Robotron machine, you may know this isn’t the first <a href="http://blog.us.playstation.com/tag/midway/">Midway</a> collection Backbone has developed. But Midway Arcade Origins is the first of this generation, and it’s definitely the best ever with 31 Midway arcade games assembled on one disc.

 

First off, we really wanted to make sure we paid proper homage to the collection’s arcade roots, so right from the main menu we included a model of the original arcade cabinet and the marquee (arcade term for the light-up game logo) for each game. In terms of emulation quality, each game looks and plays exactly the same as its arcade counterpart. In fact, the PS3’s capabilities has made it possible for many of the games to feature true sound emulation for the first time on a console, resulting in a better sound response than in any previous collection.

 

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