Defender is a simple game. You are a lone spaceship deployed to protect the earth from a relentless army of alien beings intent on kidnapping humans. The play mechanics are equally simple: scroll right or left, up and down, shooting moving spaceships as they try to scoop up humans. The game translates very well to the N64. The graphics are sharp and the gameplay actions translate well to the controller's buttons.
Joust calls for you to fly your giant bird and forcibly dismount your opponents from their birds, allowing you to collect the eggs that you dislodge in the process. While there have been many imitators, there's nothing like the original.
Spy Hunter is a top-down, weapon-based racing game. You're a spy racing against time and a bunch of evil opponents. The bad guys try to knock you off the road or into various obstacles. You must use your weapons and driving skills to keep going.
Robotron 2084 puts you in position as the last human who can save the world from a legion of endlessly zealous robot attackers. Played from an overhead perspective, the game'
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Arcade Greatest Hits: Midway Collection 1 is a compilation of classic video games that made their debuts in the arcades of yore. In this case, Midway's classics are: Spy Hunter, Robotron 2084, Joust, Defender, Sinistar, and Rootbeer Tapper. All six games are packaged on the one cartridge, along with arcade trivia, and an unfortunately clunky 3-D interface that nevertheless fails to diminish the shine of these classic games. If you've never played these coin-eaters (or you simply can't remember them), here's a rundown:
Defender is a simple game. You are a lone spaceship deployed to protect the earth from a relentless army of alien beings intent on kidnapping humans. The play mechanics are equally simple: scroll right or left, up and down, shooting moving spaceships as they try to scoop up humans. The game translates very well to the N64. The graphics are sharp and the gameplay actions translate well to the controller's buttons.
Joust calls for you to fly your giant bird and forcibly dismount your opponents from their birds, allowing you to collect the eggs that you dislodge in the process. While there have been many imitators, there's nothing like the original.
Spy Hunter is a top-down, weapon-based racing game. You're a spy racing against time and a bunch of evil opponents. The bad guys try to knock you off the road or into various obstacles. You must use your weapons and driving skills to keep going.
Robotron 2084 puts you in position as the last human who can save the world from a legion of endlessly zealous robot attackers. Played from an overhead perspective, the game's controls allow you to aim and fire independently from the direction you're moving.
Sinistar is a classic shooter, and one of the first with digitized voice samples. You and your ship are mankind's last hope against the evil Sinistar. In this very realistic recreation of the game, you must go around space blowing up asteroids and collecting the leftover debris before it's too late.
Rootbeer Tapper casts you as a bartender serving frosty beverages to your customers. The patrons of the game are spread across multiple tables, and when their glasses go empty you must refill them.
Arcade Greatest Hits: Midway Collection 1 is as good as it gets for fans of the old arcade classics, as well as for youngsters interested in the history of video games. --Todd Mowatt
Pros:Cons:
- Authentically reproduced sights, sounds, and action of original classics
- 3-D interface is both clunky and unnecessary
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Rating:- Very Awsome
This game is the best ever!! My personal favorite game is Spy hunter but I still like root beer taper and sinistar. Anyone that tells you this game is boring is VERY WRONG. I like the quiz that they threw in with all the questions they have. Every chanch I get I play this game it's so fun.
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These games are a wonderful reminder of a time when games were games and not insipid role playing mush. These games take actual skill and hand/eye co-ordination to win. You won't find solution manuals for these. The rules are simple and the games are tough. I highly recommend this. Grab them while they're still around.
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Forget updated 3D graphics and dishonestly expanded storylines! Look elsewhere for video cheesecake and Saturday morning spinoffs! Instead, pull on your favorite Le Tigre shirt, crease a pair of matching colored Lees, slide into a pair of shell-toe Adidas and prepare yourself for an old school time warp complete with cramped and blistered thumbs 'cause this collection rocks! I poured more quarters than I care to remember into the original versions of Robotron 2084, Defender and Joust - three of my all-time favorites - and their faithful reproductions here make it well worth the cost of entry. Add the cartoonish Root Beer Tapper and Spy Hunter, as well as Sinistar (never even heard of this one!) and the Arcade Trivia game (another extra that will test your memory of those glorious quarter-munching days of yore) and you've got a family heirloom! Now, if only I could find an original version of Berzerk...
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I'm always looking around on ebay and at malls to find anything with the game spy hunter. i only know 1 place that still has it as the arcade version, but then i went there and it was gone. i was so mad until i read my new nintendo power magazine about this game. i was looking threw all the games it had and there it was, Spy Hunter!!! the next day i grabbed $30 and bought the game. It is amazing that this game is so cheep, it should be like $64. if u hav $30 and u want the old classics and not those new "if u liked them, try us" games than buy this
Rating:- Why bother ?
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