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Rating: 5/5 Midway Arcade Treasures Volume 2 If you're looking to collect the best arcade compilations, Midway Arcade Treasures Volume 1 is where you should begin – and it'll cost you around $5 if you look around. But that trio is a mere aperitif to the rest of the games here. It's essentially the progenitor tower defense game. Rampart is tricky to play, but still extremely fun. The PS2's dual joystick makes playing Robotron 2084 one of the most authentic experiences you can have outside of the coin-op, and Marble Madness is still surprisingly fresh and playable. Atari's System 2 games are standout representatives of mid-80's arcade history, while the Williams games are all highly influential coin-ops from the very early years of arcades.
Verdict: Perhaps the holy grail of arcade collections, but as common as a paper cup, this compilation features some of the greatest games from the Golden Age of Arcades.
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Oh, and if I'm missing anything, please let me know so I can update this article. So which old classics are available on PS2? All of them are listed below. Visitors often ask why it's there, and when they learn the answer, we end up firing it up and playing a bunch of their old favorite arcade games.
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Anyway, to me it's a great excuse to keep my PS2 under my TV. I also like the fact that many of these compilations contain games that you might not know, or would never think of playing – and that's what I believe is the real value here. The point of this article is to celebrate arcade compilations, and by virtue, the PlayStation 2. You can indeed play all this stuff on MAME. Add in a PS2/HDMI converter to upscale these old classics to a modern TV, and you have a perfect living room arcade setup.Īnd before anyone mentions it, yes.
That means if you have an old PS2 gathering dust, you could give it a second lease of life by making it a dedicated arcade machine for very little cost. Nowadays, these collections can be bought for a as little as $5 each on eBay. The world's best-selling console of all time boasts an impressive range of top-tier anthologies packed some of the greatest arcade games of all time. Maybe that might change this generation, but for now, the PlayStation 2 remains king of the coin-op compilations. Perhaps not because players haven't wanted to buy them – but more because companies have realized that their classic coin-ops make ideal fodder for microtransactions. Over the last decade or so as we've moved from generation to generation, arcade game compilations seem to have gone out of fashion.