Midway - What Happened?

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@MattMcMuscles 2 года назад

Want more Midway mayhem? Then check out the WH on all the failed Mortal Kombat Remakes! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-29pNd-i4ykM.html

@greatfox232 2 года назад

Do Marvel Nemesis; rise of the imperfects

@horrorandmonsterfan952 2 года назад

Matt McMuscles can you do a What Happened? On Destroy All Humans Series

@pattybean457 2 года назад

Oh man I can't wait for you to do the shit show that was Acclaim especially when they did all the outrageous PR stunts for BMX XXX and getting someone to call their kid Shadowman

@bbreimm 2 года назад

We don't deserve you Mr. McMuscles. Thank you and please never stop

@aaronbasham6554 2 года назад

Can I just say Sumner Redstone is an amazing name? Like, can that be the official name of some sort of Gauntlet character?

@atk1152 2 года назад

for a company bringing "Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks", "The Suffering", "Ed, Edd n Eddy: The Mis-Edventures", "Rampage: Total Destruction" it is very sad to see the company bankrupt

@TheLastRaven6 2 года назад

Gauntlent dark legacy...OH MAN thats so fun with friends. ...Until one em steals the food you needed so you take their control outta the port and turn it into a sudo-mace

@retroentertainment1340 2 года назад

I actually remember playing Ed, Edd, n Eddy: The Mis-Edventures and Rampage: Total Destruction on Nintendo GameCube.

@RGF91 2 года назад

Me silently chanting tna tna tna tna tna

@yellowmarshmellowpuffnob6922 2 года назад

Don't forget DOOM 64

@BaronOfZLand 2 года назад

Dude, Psi-Ops. Probably the most underrated game of all time.

@dansilvers8052 2 года назад

Shortly after Midway fell apart, I was at an Autodesk presentation in Boston and met one of their artists. He gave me an "Art of Midway" book for reasons unknown to this day. It's an amazing treasure trove of concept art and inside info on a bunch of their old titles. Just one of those crazy, serendipitous treasures.

@razorflossrazor2937 2 года назад

You still have it? That thing is probably worth something

@BassmintStile 2 года назад

@@razorflossrazor2937 I just gooled the book. You can get it used for under $5 shipped.

@dansilvers8052 2 года назад

@@razorflossrazor2937 I do indeed! Right on my bookshelf. Only goes for like $7 on eBay, so it's mostly sentimental value representing an awesome night during a very different time in game development.

@GenerationWest 2 года назад

Honestly never knew that Midway was that old, but it tried to change with the times, and now it's a WB Games subsidiary, milking Mortal Kombat properties. Watching it fall in real time was heartbreaking... But we still have Crazy Uncle Ed Boon!

@RichardBarkman 2 года назад

Ik man but there’s other ip own thq Nordic too by old midway but sitting there dusts as long time.

@andrewjriggs 2 года назад

@@RichardBarkman bro I’m not trying to be rude but I have read this comment at least 6 times and still have no clue what you are trying to say

@SoftwareAgentsTV 2 года назад

Not even that, it is nothing more than a brand name WB Games controls that they used for any classic arcade game they own, regardless of whether it was made at Midway or not (ref: Super Off-Road).

@AkumaKristian 2 года назад

@@andrewjriggs I think they were trying to say that THQ Nordic owns some of Midway's old IPs. Emphasis on "I think". (I don't even know if that is the case to be honest. It's hard to keep track of the amount of niche IPs that THQ Nordic own)

@343ishill 2 года назад

@@andrewjriggs I think what he's saying is THQ Nordic still revisits old IP like Darksiders while making licensed games like Spongebob. Meanwhile Midway under WB only develops Mortal Kombat and ignores all its old catalogue of IPs to gather dust.

@UfodexENMD 2 года назад

This made me sad. Midway gave us such great games especially the sports games. Thanks for the childhood memories Midway

@THANATOS-PRIME 2 года назад

They made my favorite arcade shooter. Carn-Evil.

@MalcolmTurnerKing 2 года назад

I still play Blitz The League on AetherSx2 and I still have Blitz: The League 2 for PS3.

@chemergency 2 года назад

NFL Blitz always blew Madden and everything else out of the water. Football is so much more fun when the rules are stripped to the bare minimum.

@UfodexENMD 2 года назад

@@chemergency and we'll never get another game like Blitz due to the NFLs rules about late hits and other bs. I could go on a rant about the league but unfortunately we'll only have memories of those chaotic amazing games.

@chaosdirge4906 2 года назад

I remember liking the suffering when it came out, I would like to see a sequel to it but I doubt I ever will. Honestly, I'm OK with most of midway being left forgotten.

@rickyretriever4503 2 года назад

Actually, the real reason why Fear & Respect was cancelled is because the developers originally had in mind to make the game a narrative shooter akin to something like Max Payne, but Midway instead wanted the game to on an open world (GTA-Styled) direction to which the developers had to decline because they didn't have the recourses or time to make such a drastic change in scope. This was said by one of the game directors who worked on it on her personal website.

@rickyrosay33977 2 года назад

I get why midway wanted them to make it a gta clone since it was the genre at the time and every company was hungry for that gta money and wanted to cash in on the phenomenon sadly money always gets in the way of innovation

@RebelTaxi 2 года назад

17:10 WB at least gave Midway its own world in Lego Dimensions. It's nice having a 3D sandbox with landmarks from Gauntlet or Rampage

@MattMcMuscles 2 года назад

Damn, I've never seen a company do the barest amount of effort with so many IPs.

@autobotstarscream765 2 года назад

Mortal Kombat LEGOs when?

@FractalShoggoth 2 года назад

@@MattMcMuscles Konami springs to mind...

@mrcritical6751 2 года назад

That was one of the most WTF franchises in that game. The level made zero sense, the character you got with it (The Gamer Kid) was a complete nobody who just made video game references constantly, the adventure world was barren as hell and it just felt like a last minuet “oh god we need another thing to get the franchise count up, quick what can we get off Warner Bros for cheap?”

@Acidonia150reborn 2 года назад

@@mrcritical6751 What I dont get is you see Gamer Kid in the stage ending Turning into Gegorge. Yet the Actual in game character can't but they is in Gegorge as a NPC model in the midway world but Bane in the same has the Abilty to change into a fully playable Model based on the Big Fig that the Gegorge NPC uses. Theres Lego Stlyed figures from the Midway series in game too yet none are playable. Godzilla,King Kong,Megaman and the universal Monsters was scraped series for Lego Dimensions to name a few. Though back to Rampage they is no Missions or levels in the game that play like Rampage which is such a waste with the amount of characters in that game. It is only way to play some midway classic arcade games on the PS4/PS5 and Wii U still. Though you have to unlock them by finding them in every stage and this includes the DLC story ones for year one so it's a long way and possibly expesensive way to fo so.

@alexn8672 2 года назад

Gauntlet and Rampage deserve so much better. It's weird to think that Midway's old PS1 compilations were the thing that introduced young me to retro gaming, and it's tragic to see just how many of their IPs just fizzled.

@Randomyoutuber-4831 2 года назад

Honestly ‘rampage: total destruction’ wasn’t that bad. It wasn’t great, the overly inflated roster and repetitive gameplay held it back; but it was still a fun time to be had, tearing down block after block of major world cities. Plus it included a port of rampage and rampage world tour on the disk. Frankly they nailed the concept, if they had changed it from being confined to one block at a time to being able to freely roam across a city with the goal of smashing up as much stuff as possible within a time limit (similar to the game play in ‘war of the monsters’ with less PvP) then rampage could have done well in modern day.

@Red-rb3sd 2 года назад

@@Randomyoutuber-4831 I also enjoyed playing Total destruction back in the day. What you suggested about it being more open than 1 block would definitely be more interesting!

@lovebirdrica22 2 года назад

I love gauntlet

@GeminiTasiri 2 года назад

Man, the Fall of Midway had everything. Celebrity-starring games, questionable hiring choices*, desperate trend chasing, underestimating HD development costs, shady deals in upper managment, all in one continuous downward spiral. *seriously, what was up with hiring the COO of Playboy? Were they hoping to get some investors purely on the ~scandalous~ headlines that would produce? Especially since he didn't seem to care about reversing the direction Midway was heading...

@tafua_a 2 года назад

Business people are convinced that just because you made money for one company, then you can make money for any company, even if that company has nothing to do with the previous one. That's how you get stuff like Jim Herd as president of WCW, his previous experience being managing a Pizza Hut (Sting often calls him "The Pizza Guy"), a financial decision so great, it sent WCW on a downward spiral that would close their doors ten years later.

@ccricers 2 года назад

@@tafua_a On the other hand, it worked with Reggie Fils-Aime, who was Senior Director of Marketing at Pizza Hut before he was hired by Nintendo.

@alrecks619 11 месяцев назад

@@tafua_a a financial decision so great that it let the rival, WWE (then WWF) grabbed all its assets for not a whole lot (about 3 to 5 million compared to original 70+ million)

@StopSkeletonsFromFighting 2 года назад

Just sitting here, enjoying some What Happened, and suddenly I’m in the video! Where’s my check, Matt??

@reillocb 2 года назад

Somebody get uncle Derek that check Stat, those esoteric controllers aren't cheap.

@Killer-Lover 2 года назад

Nice vids skeleton

@raminatox 2 года назад

✔️

@SN1PERx64 2 года назад

a check in sweet, sweet exposure...

@crawlingkhaos8970 2 года назад

Silly Derek, it's right next to your username!

@BryMoon 2 года назад

Midway was one of my favorite developers, so much of my childhood gaming is tied to Midway. Even playing old Midway games today gives me nostalgia. They really died a hero, I clicked this on instant. Maybe an episode on another favorite of mine THQ.

@lilliana1605 2 года назад

I struck gold when I found the midway arcade disk for xbox. It's out of production and I paid $9 for it. All the classics and nostalgia. 😌

@smokenojoke8182 2 года назад

THQ vid would be great

@dylano5173 Год назад

Or an episode about how rare went from making the best games of the N64 era to completely falling off

@kenmastersX 2 года назад

I met Ed Boon at a CEO tournament hanging out with sonicfox. I told Ed I wanted a sequel to Smash TV, where afterwards Sonicfox asked "What's Smash TV?" I was never more sad after hearing those words from a young person not knowing about old midway stuff

@Phreno_Xeno 2 года назад

Who's Sonicfox? Nvm..

@SpiderInStockings 2 года назад

I think it’s insane how much their catalogue got bolstered after Williams bought them; you have the likes of Joust and Defender and Robotron 2084 and Smash TV it’s insane. Im about Sonicfox’s age and Smash TV is probably my favorite arcade game of all time. Pure violent bliss

@greedpower565 Год назад

What's a sonicfox?

@kenmastersX Год назад

@MLBAstronaut yeah its not a big deal, just wish they would try at doing a budget style reimagining but I feel like it'd be something akin to a mobile game today. Instead of TV it'd have something to do with the internet lol

@lancepage1914 Год назад

I am not surprised at all Ed Boon didn't know about Smash TV. Yet he worked for Midway at the time, he had absolutely nothing to do with it and he would have been busy AF making Mortal Kombat games from the 90's onwards. I only know what Smash TV is because I played the Genesis port at my brother's friends house in 1992.

@SAPProd 2 года назад

Looks like we have a new champion for the earliest starting point of a What Happened episode (you wore the crown well, E.T., The Extra-Terrestrial). Gonna be hard to top this one on the video game side; probably would have to tackle the origins of Nintendo or something.

@btr3k 2 года назад

If Coleco is ever covered, that goes further back to the 1930s (edit - definitely nothing compared to Nintendo in 1889 though)! The video game industry is an odd beast.

@16ktsgamma 2 года назад

Please the origins of Nintendo is. "It's a card company."

@SAPProd 2 года назад

@@16ktsgamma but it didn’t stay a card company. They went into a lot of ventures in the near 100 years they spent before become a video game company, including love hotels.

@josephjefferies346 2 года назад

@@btr3k Coleco Chameleon needs to be on this show. It has to be.

@btr3k 2 года назад

@@josephjefferies346 That came to my mind as well… though has there ever been a What Happened about something that is basically vaporware? 😅

@captainmidnight 2 года назад

Great video, I never really knew what happened to them! Between Doom 64, Crusin USA and NFL Blitz, I was a big fan! I thought they were a way bigger deal than like, Activision when I was a little kid.

@DetectorCliche 2 года назад

Love your channel

@TidusX16 2 года назад

Do a crossover!!! Make the Matt McMuscles Cinematic Universe happen!!!

@jwalton117 2 года назад

Over the last few years Matt has become my favorite RU-vidr. Thanks for the great videos

@blyat8832 2 года назад

Omfg even bots will spam on a wholesome comment smh

@sixxjr 9 месяцев назад

As a kid I ran a TBFP Facebook fan page lol, crazy to see I'm still here watching him.

@MoonSpiritChannel 2 года назад

Man, this hurts to see one of the most prolific game companies go down like this.

@trinityharris8823 2 года назад

Makes me wonder what happened to all the IPs they had. I'd pay good money for a uprez release of Shaolin Monks and The Suffering alone.

@lycanwarrior2137 2 года назад

You either die a hero or see yourself become the villain as the old saying goes...

@darkchris66 2 года назад

I live in Chicago and I’m not far where Midway games used to be. I remember always being super excited passing by their studio and thinking what MK game they’re probably cooking up next. It was sad when they closed down and their office was used by someone else. Fun fact: when Midway Williams split, Williams moved one block from the old Midway office (where they have a towering and shiny building) and Netherrealm Games (currently making MK games) actually moved 2 blocks away from their old Midway office. Their new office building is really much better with the MK props by the main lobby to take quick pics.

@sugarfrosted2005 2 года назад

I don't know why I'm surprised Midway Games got started with midway games.

@discoron77 2 года назад

I remember as a kid going to some carnival and saw a sign for "midway" games, then being disappointed that Mortal Kombat wasn't there.

@GreatMewtwo 2 года назад

It surprised me as well when I realized some time ago that their name may be in reference to the midway of the Chicago World's Fair, where such a concept was first demonstrated in 1893.

@PsychoCrusher46 Год назад

Same tho the midway at Vegas I frequent had MK2

@shadowleon659 2 года назад

Midway is a company that I really miss.

@schemar17 2 года назад

Missway

@lancepage1914 Год назад

I don't miss Midway at all, only the 90s itself. But all good things must come to an end.

@TheScarface43 2 года назад

I never realised how much I needed a new "The Suffering" game until now, Jesus Christ

@jjonohjamson9540 2 года назад

WB gots tons of IPs, more than what they'd know what to do with, obscure Midway IPs are on the bottom of their priority list. The best they'd get is probably cameos in that WB Multiverses game.

@marcocamacho2013 2 года назад

Your videos are the equivalent of the Saturday morning cartoons. Just love to see one of your videos every Saturday morning-ish Thanks for the great content.

@btr3k 2 года назад

Just came to say it's MS. Pac-Man, not Mrs! At that time in her life, she was living the free-wheeling "Sex and the Pac-City" lifestyle before she met Pac-Man and had a Pac-wedding. Though, really thinking about it further, shouldn't it have been Ms. Pac-Woman? Well, anyway. Also not mentioned, Midway squeezed their Pac-Man license for as much as they could - there wasn't just the "unofficial" Ms. Pac-Man released by Midway, but also the "official bootleg" Pac-Man Plus, "good sequel" Jr. Pac-Man, "okay pinball game" Mr. and Mrs. Pac-Man, "bad video-pinball game" Baby Pac-Man, and "WTF is this" Professor Pac-Man, all in the span of a few years. On top of that Midway also released Namco developed Super Pac-Man and Pac-Land... that's a lot of Pac-Man.

@joesomenumbers 2 года назад

I remember War: Final Assault. Me and my friends played it after school a lot. You could save your score and profile and log in every time you played. If you got to a certain rank they were supposed to send you a t shirt if you sent away. My friend did. They never sent him his shirt.

@ducklabsgaming4676 2 года назад

I was working at GT in these last couple of years publishing Midway stuff. I QA tested all those Quake, Doom, Cruisin' etc console versions! Some of it was decent obviously but man some of their stuff was getting rough towards the end there 🤕

@Mystic-Aidan 2 года назад

Every time I remember Arctic Thunder (my favorite racer of all time), I’m forced to remember that Midway is dead, and we’ll probably never get an Arctic Thunder sequel. The agony is never going to leave until we finally get a new one. If only we never lost Midway…

@ctgmighty7039 2 года назад

Most likely not a remake but there is Arctic Thunder: Hurricane for the x360

@NeoStrayCat 2 года назад

@@ctgmighty7039 That's Hydro Thunder, but yeah, Arctic Thunder is some good stuff, if it only had a modern re-release tho. But its stuck to Arcade and both PS2/Xbox.

@chillworksdev4145 2 года назад

This feels like the season finale boss that all other episodes have been ramping up towards.

@pollo20x6 2 года назад

Midway was such a huge part of my childhood. Midway Arcade Treasures 1 and 2 got so much use growing up

@HaefentheZebra 2 года назад

I remember when I was a kid passing by their offices in Corsicana (Formerly Tradewest offices) every so often and just being so in awe that they were right there. Even if I didn’t know it wasn’t their whole operation at the time.

@GreatMewtwo 2 года назад

Similarly, as an adult, I would drive around the Miami areas where Gametek and Rare had offices. I am still blown away that Gametek was based right in my hometown.

@Big_Z14 2 года назад

Psi-Ops is almost unknown at this point and The Suffering is somewhat obscure too, but both of those games were absolutely fantastic. Sad to think that it's likely nothing will ever be done with those IPs.

@tjoconnell2524 2 года назад

I think a good what happened episode could be about jaws. That movie had a hellish production, but hey, what came out of that is considered to be one of the greatest movies ever.

@djpegao 2 года назад

And the sequels almost ruined it

@James-gj8rn 2 года назад

Now you're adding entire companies to the series! I like this! More please :)

@Sabeythang 2 года назад

I would have loved to hear you mention Midway's bizarre-but-welcome decision to localize the first two Shadow Hearts games. RPGs are so far from their usual output, there HAS to be an interesting story there.

@Brolly-hh7hx 2 года назад

I'd think they wanted a slice from that JRPG boom that came along with FFVII, Shadow Hearts released very close to FFX so that momentum still hadn't died down.

@smokey3504 2 года назад

Can we get a What Happened on the original Street Fighter? Nobody I've talked to about it had ever heard of it or played it, then suddenly its sequel took the world by storm. Of course I've played it on the 30th anniversary collection, but that only further begged the question as to why they decided to make a sequel to THAT thing. Iconic in its own right, but a total mystery

@gregoryberrycone 2 года назад

midway games had such a distinct look and feel to them, they definitely carried on that bold arcade feeling to the end. their ps2 era titles are so underrated, the mk games from that time, gauntlet dark legacy and psi ops were all so much fun

@caitlineder6950 2 года назад

Growing up in suburban Chicago gave me a soft spot for Midway in particular, and their story has always been so sad to me. I think the city could be a great hub for games and I hope we can build on the success that studios like Jackbox have found, and that Midway once had. Also: CarnEvil deserved better

@HarriHaffi 7 месяцев назад

Cool! Wish there were more videos out there about Midways games. Really liked the gauntlet remake and Mortal Kombat usually comes with bonus games. Bonus games in fighting games are nice.

@slymm76 2 года назад

Hey Matt, long time listener first time poster! I used to work in QA for midway and worked on Stranglehold . It had a lot of potential . I also did voice work on blitz and DC v MK....they have a lot of great ip they should revisit

@NoirMouse 2 года назад

Oh shit, who'd ya voice in Mk Vs. DC? I played that quite a bit back in the day.

@spiralgodking9877 2 года назад

Who'd you voice in DC v MK?

@slymm76 2 года назад

@@NoirMouse random grunts and yells on dc v mk and players noises and shouts like" hit me im open" on blitz.. also i was a cofounder a record label that put out the song broken dreams which was on the blitz soundtrack

@NoirMouse 2 года назад

@@slymm76 I haven't played Blitz so I can't comment on that, but neat dude! Hope you've been doing well.

@afterthought55 2 года назад

I can't figure out why Stranglehold wasn't a huge success. It was an awesome game!

@chadalexander1924 2 года назад

Pinball didn't really tank until around the mid 90s. You had from Bally: The Addams Family, Twilight Zone, from Data East: Jurassic Park, from Williams: Indiana Jones. There was a mini-Renaissance. But it was in 1995/1996 when numbers started to drop because of loss in demand and the revenue arcades were still getting from The Addams Family (they were still producing them well into 1994, creating a Gold version for making 20,000 units, the highest selling solid state machine of all time). Even with Pinball 2000 in the late 90s, Williams was actually profitable in two full years. But it wasn't enough. But other than that, awesome video!

@oakleygleason7145 2 года назад

I was born in 98, but I grew up on the Midway Arcade Treasures compilations, as well as a lot of Midway's (admittedly mostly bad) lineup of games during the PS2 era. I really do miss a lot of their classic games.

@mbrown7361 2 года назад

This is Vegas. Dude I remember seeing that in magazines back in high school in like 05. I was so pumped. Years went by and nada. I still hold out it'll be resurrected one day

@jakesoros2376 2 месяца назад

So do I. 99% of all the voice lines were already recorded for the game, and the story was mostly finished, with just some final tweaks necessary. But there's no way Warner Brothers will ever let that game or its story leak, given that Arnold Schwarzenegger was parodied in the game, and they don't want to harm his ego.

@Hypno_BPM 2 года назад

the days that Midway and THQ closed down, a part of my childhood died

@rickyrosay33977 2 года назад

We need a THQ whathappun episode

@SoftwareAgentsTV 2 года назад

3:35 Williams bought Midway and more or less turned it into its video game development wing. The video game crash of 1983 lead to the Williams execs laying off most of their software department. Both companies had a strong rivalry with each other and had their eye on each other. The Midway buy-out was particularly nasty as their entire software department was removed except for Brian Colin and Jeff Nauman.

@turretnyle 2 года назад

Man, it's a shame what really happened to Midway, considering their amazing arcade legacy. CarnEvil is still one of my all-time favorite coin-op games, and I would still love to see that and all of the other Midway games that never got a home port get the attention they deserve!

@Walid-mk4jo 14 дней назад

Yeah all they do now is just milk the mk franchise since they are a subsidiary of WB now

@commdaofighting 2 года назад

Wow, the mention of The Grid at the end there. Totally forgot about it-- so many memories rushing back now.

@deconyus3412 2 года назад

10:25 matt you owe me for reminding me Dr. Muto exists, the most early 00’s game that’s ever existed.

@axelzxsh1107 2 года назад

The best way to end the video, with the song of the franchise that survived from Midway's bankruptcy

@kingbeastben1465 2 года назад

I miss midway, the games I love from the company is killer instinct, rampage 2 and mortal kombat 3.

@tedjomuljono3052 2 года назад

Yeah, and donkey kong country!

@neo1711 2 года назад

???

@kingbeastben1465 2 года назад

@KTV 4U that too, but din't capcom made it?

@tedjomuljono3052 2 года назад

@@kingbeastben1465 midway also didn't make killer instinct

@kingbeastben1465 2 года назад

@@tedjomuljono3052 it said it in the arcade intro

@hamsandwichson 2 года назад

Every teenage quarter I had that didn't go into Little Debbie snack cakes went into either NBA Jam, MK 2 or T2. Especially T2. That was an absolute quarter cruncher.

@DoorsInTheLabyrinth 2 года назад

This Is Vegas also sunk Surreal Software, who did two of my favorite games ever, being the Drakan series. I want more than anything for someone else to get the license and do a Drakan 3. In the days of big open world action adventure fantasy games, Drakan would be an amazing fit!

@jakesoros2376 2 месяца назад

Honestly, I wish there was a playable build of This Is Vegas out there. I spoke with a play tester for it and, for all its problems, the story was actually quite good, and the soundtrack was surprisingly decent.

@Vicky-Hugh-Martini 2 года назад

As a kid, it was fascinating seeing and playing Cruis'n World at my local HEB store (Texas grocery chain) in the 2000s before they rid of the arcades the following decade. I don't know how in my head I mixed the symbols of Midway and the defunct Oldsmobile.

@rickyrosay33977 2 года назад

Nice to see a fellow Texan in the comments the closest HEB to me is 30 minutes away they also used to have a Cruisi’n world arcade machine in that one I always choose the blue mustang looking car

@AnferneeMyers 2 года назад

This show is so damn cultured. I would be honored to work with Matt, someday.

@lilliana1605 2 года назад

Thank you for covering this studio. midway produced some of my favorite childhood games and I always wondered what happened. I had to comebacks and comment this..........Wtf is WB doing?

@SlicingDicingGamingENT 2 года назад

Growing up in Chicago Midway had a very special place in my heart. I remember when I found out they were based in the city it made me love their games even more. NetherRealm and Iron Galaxy carry the touch now but Midway will forever be Goated 💯

@TheAssirra 2 года назад

So Midway actually owned a lot but threw it all away due to poor management. Can only imagine how standard employees must have felt.

@lancepage1914 Год назад

If you weren't Ed Boon it must have been pretty shit.

@jeremyabbott4537 2 года назад

God, The Suffering was one of my favorite PS2 games and it actually gave young me nightmares! It's a shame it won't even get a rerelease :/

@PeteSkerritt 2 года назад

This is great work (as always), but it hurt to watch/relive. I’ve been a *huge* fan of Midway’s releases, dating all the way back to the 1970s (Sea Wolf). When Midway went belly up, it was tough to swallow. Seeing WB snap up so many quality IPs and do nothing with most of them has repeatedly stung. I can imagine how an updated version of The Grid would be with online play and today’s console power. But nope! At least we’ll always have Midway arcade compilations.

@Sore5791 2 года назад

They really need to make another "The Suffering" game. The last one had such an abrupt ending.

@JellyJman 2 года назад

Only took 1:32 to get to the "it was the style at the time" Simpsons clip but it was a different joke in the clip. Well done Matt for subverting expectations!

@Mateus_Carvalho 2 года назад

I remember the past couple of years where people kept saying that Midway was somehow being kept alive via Mortal Kombat. That said, I wonder if Midway would've done anything with the old games if they were still somehow around. Like... WB obviously didn't do much.

@Warweazel 6 месяцев назад

Midway was a HUGE part of my childhood. I had the Midway Collection on PS2, which was pretty much my introduction to video games. I played SOOOO much Gauntlet and Smash TV, and some of my happiest memories are playing Gauntlet Dark Legacy with my parents.

@Choralone422 2 года назад

Ahh Midway. I'm glad to see this video! What's here mirrors what I've heard about them as well. I have 2 friends who worked for Midway (one is a bonus character in the arcade version of 2 on 2 Open Ice Challenge!) in Chicago in the 90s into the early 2000s Even then they spoke of mis-management, spending issues and a real lack of focus at the corporate level. Neither friend has worked in the games industry again after leaving Midway.

@Nic5Cyprus 2 года назад

It's sad that besides Mortal Kombat basically the only Midway game released by Warner was the Rampage 2018 arcade game. Not even collections, nothing

@eyalrephaeli6833 5 месяцев назад

WB also released Spy Hunter in 2012 and Gauntlet in 2014

@thesegaguy6279 2 года назад

I was literally thinking about Midway lately and working on a convention panel about them. I still miss them to this day. Also, holy crap, I forgot all about Fear & Respect!!

@timman98 2 года назад

The Ms. Pacman thing was more complicated than just Midway making a Pacman clone, I recommend Jonii's video on The Disappearance of Ms Pac-Man.

@elhazthorn918 2 года назад

Still hoping for a Quintet What Happened. I loved their games on the SNES.

@CliffDiverBOA 2 года назад

Ed Boon tweeting that Psi-Ops deserves a reboot gives me a sliver of hope.

@Silvershire Год назад

Gauntlet: Dark Legacy was a huge part of my childhood. I’d love it to be brought to modern consoles

@Vincentvondoom 2 года назад

SSFF Is an awesome channel. It always warms my heart to see youtubers supporting eachother.

@gamefreak3000dx 2 года назад

To this day I'm still heartbroken about the cancelation of fear and respect. I was so fucking hyped for this game as a kid and I'm pretty sure I still have that game informer.

@BazTheStoryteller 2 года назад

9:52, BUBSY: Hey! That's my line!

@Alurkerdood 2 года назад

I wouldn’t mind a straight up remaster of Gauntlet Legends/Dark Legacy. The new Gauntlet game isn’t what I was hoping it was.

@marcingulik2373 2 года назад

This is my favorite video series. Great job and keep 'em coming!

@itsthesoup11 2 года назад

I’m all here for the healthy doses of Cruisin’ USA music, Matt! 🤙😆🎶🎶🎶

@ChrisSaturn 2 года назад

According to Steve Golson from the Ms. Pac-Man dev team (ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-rhM8NAMW_VQ.html), Namco was aware of the Ms. Pac-Man development from the get-go. The idea that Midway made Ms. Pac-Man without Namco's knowledge is just an old myth.

@levithewizard 2 года назад

Absolutely wild, midway ruled the arcades in the 90s (in us at least) but failed to bridge the gap. It always happens when you have non gamer/developers making the decisions for the company they don't ever understand the industry.

@YuseiTheSynchroHero 2 года назад

Even just HEARING the music from NBA JAM (the SNES version) made me shed tears...

@videosthatwhatever 2 года назад

7:58 Standing Here I Realize

@zane_losvir3798 2 года назад

It was nice to honestly know what happened to Midway. Because I remember playing a bunch of Midway games back in the day. The Area-51 game for PS2 was still one of the coolest games I played back then to me. Then I remember hearing Midway just kinda disappeared off the map. It kinda sucked honestly because I had no idea what was going on with it all and caused that. So its honestly nice to know what happened and my god no wonder why their logo is burned into my mind. They legit tried to make anything and everything lmao. Thanks for making this one Matt. It helped me finally figure out what happened to them directly to cause it. Ironically I think I may have seen all of if not almost all of the What Happened videos thus far 😂. Its been interesting to see how everything has progressed. Keep up the awesome work with it all 👍.

@CircadianRhythmm 2 года назад

You should definitely check out dr. Muto one of midways last original IPs on this show. Underrated to me but I’m sure you’ll find tons of material lol

@Kenoji8 2 года назад

Matt, you always have amazingly produced videos with this series and you always have me laughing and jamming to stuff that you put in. NBA Jam, Eddie Murphy's "Delirious" (I was born in '86, too)...this is some legendary stuff, man. This stuff brings back so many memories for me. I'm glad I'm subbed to your channel thanks to Maxmillian's recommendation and I regret not being subscribed earlier. This is fantastic work, man, and a lot of well-done research. Awesome work, Matt. Just awesome. Keep up the outstanding work, man!

@vangoghsseveredear 2 года назад

It's shocking how incompetent Midway was. They went from being arcade kings to completely videogame illiterate. So many head scratching moments, man.

@jucaafonso Год назад

Midway was on fire during the N64 era. Played the shit out of SF Rush 2049 battle mode and Gauntlet Legends.

@lachesis1541 2 года назад

A lot of Midways arcade games were playable in lego dimensions actually

@michaelthomas1087 2 года назад

Midday had hits on hits from the NBA Ballers games to the Blitz: The league games, The Suffering horror shooter games to Mortal Kombat they were on a tear in the early to mid 2000s

@ratchetxtreme6591 2 года назад

A wha happun done on a whole game publisher, now that’s definitely a rare sight to see.

@dyll_pyckle 2 года назад

Matt...there is literally no way. How did you read my mind and make this video??? I watched your MK vs DC vid the other day and wondered "Gee, a What Happened on Midway would be super interesting!" GET OUT OF MY HEAD!!!

@Damian_1989 2 года назад

Damn, that sucks. Psi-Ops i think would benefit greatly if Nightdive could remaster it or something!

@soupalex 2 года назад

i kind of already knew about their history in pinball and arcade machines (used to see a couple of pinball machines that were branded "bally midway", and i made the connection to midway's arcade cabinets), but-having never played the arcade version-i never knew that nba jam was originally a midway title! yeah, acclaim definitely got the better half of that deal

@lucasdellamaggiore 2 года назад

Please do a what happun on Acclaim, now that's an interesting story

@nathanlopez5610 2 года назад

He kinda (sorta) did that when he talked about Acclaim in the Flophouse Files, but I also wouldn’t mind him tackling Acclaim too.

@SpiderHam 2 года назад

Having seen Insert Coin Doc I was wondering what your take would be and I was absolutely delighted to learn stuff I didn’t know from the other doc (which is also fantastic). I appreciate you going over the name changes as that was always so fuzzy to me. Ending on that Cruisin theme was (chefs 😚 kiss) perfect!

@Crocogator 2 года назад

Ughhhh. RIP Psi-Ops. I keep forgetting that was Midway.

@ignaciorangel-giron7462 2 года назад

Psi ops, that one hurt when it didn't get a sequel. It even ended in a cliff hanger.

@oscarzxn4067 2 года назад

Speaking of confusing branding stuff and Atari, I have alwys been confused with the split of Atari into the forever doomed creators of consoles and computers that went bankrupt after the Jaguar, and Atari games, really weird that the companies shared the same name.

@andywilliammockzek 2 года назад

It's a very long story. But basically what happened is that Atari then owner (Warner communications. Who successor time warner (through wb games) would end up owning midway) sold the home console and computer division to tramell computers( who changed their name to Atari corporation) whlie they kept the Atari game name...which they then sold to namco for a short while. Then they sold it time Warner interactive back in 93 then sold it to Midway in 95

@Chris-techgamesfood Год назад

I never played much of Midways games, but I do miss them and the fun demos they used to make.😮

@robertcop9889 2 года назад

I miss Midway so much, they were a great group who made some seriously fun and memorable games. To this day, one of my fondest memories relating to video games is 4-player couch co-op with my bros in Gauntlet: Dark Legacy and doing stupid stuff like racing to see who could load/save their profile first.

@foriarez944 2 года назад

You know what could be good to relaunch nowadays? The Grid, just give it online multiplayer and that's it. (I just want to play The Grid again, i miss The Grid)

@Tazzer88 2 года назад

I feel you on that one so much! Why did that one have to be an arcade-only title?

@MirorImage 2 года назад

Oh man, that Cruis'n World music took me WAY back. I played that a ton on my N64 growing up

@ArkadaTheDergon 2 года назад

man these guys made some killer racing games. hydro thunder was amazing

@PaddletailPhilly 2 года назад

It was. That one day I first played the arcade cabinet when I was 8 or 9, I got home and immediately constructed a little race course with wooden blocks. I even used a couple of Hot Wheels speedboats in it XD