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4 unusual facts about Midway Games


Astro Blaster

This was a novel feature at the time that was shared with Midway's contemporary arcade title Gorf, and had been pioneered a year earlier by Stern's, with "Berzerk".

EA Sports Big

EA Sports Big was a brand name used by Electronic Arts from 2000 to 2008 distribute sports games that featured non-realistic, often extreme, arcade gameplay similar to Midway's sports games.

Greg Siegele

Following its acquisition by Midway Games on 4 August 2005 the company was known as Midway Studios Australia.

Matt Broughton

Prior to his involvement in the world of poker, Matt spent 15 years in the video games industry, where he held various roles, including European Marketing Director for Midway Games, and International Director of Communications for Atari.


Elvira and the Party Monsters

Elvira and the Party Monsters is a 1989 pinball game designed by Dennis Nordman and Jim Patla and released by Midway (under the Bally label), featuring horrorshow-hostess Elvira.

Neil Funk

Funk was also featured as the play-by-play announcer for the 1996 Midway Games arcade game NBA Hangtime.

StarForce

CDV, Ubisoft, Digital Jesters (now defunct), JoWood Productions (now defunct), Egosoft, Codemasters, Eagle Dynamics, Midway Games (now defunct), and Bohemia Interactive Studio have used StarForce 3.0 on some of their products.

Studio Gigante

Studio Gigante was a Chicago-based video game developer established in 2000 by John Tobias, Dave Michicich, and Joshua Tsui, several developers of Midway's popular Mortal Kombat fighting game series.

Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment

Mortal Kombat was developed by the newly renamed NetherRealm Studios, led by Mortal Kombat creator and creative director Ed Boon.

Xbox Live Arcade

In February 2010, it was announced that nine games from Midway Games would no longer be available for purchase, "due to publisher evolving rights and permissions" (even though Sony's PlayStation Store never did as such with its own downloadable Midway games), referring to the purchase by Warner Bros. of some assets of Midway Games, including certain rights related to the nine games.


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