I think this story pretty well sums up what's wrong with Midway these days. When I got the press release today announcing that Midway was bringing five games to the iPhone and iPod Touch by the end of the month, I got kind of excited. I immediately started jogging through the awesome classic Midway arcade games in my head that I would totally pay between 99 cents and $2.99 for, play once, and then never touch again. Turns out, the five games in question are from their TouchMaster series, which will be available for 99 cents apiece, or as a bundle for $3.99. I guess this makes sense, considering that these games already use touchscreen interfaces, and that the most successful iPhone games so far have been mad casual, but dammit, where's my Smash TV, my Marble Madness, or my Paperboy?

For the sake of people who spend a lot of time getting drunk in bars and playing lots of TouchMaster games instead of talking to people (I shouldn't judge, I just drink by myself in my house which is way worse,) here's the meat of the press release.

Spellwinder - This is a word search game with a twist. Only adjacent letters can be used to create a word. Make words in any direction without using the same letter twice.

Dice King - This dice swapping puzzle is super addicting! Swap two adjacent dice to form matching combinations of three or more dice. Attempt to form the listed combinations displayed on the top portion of the screen and watch your score rise.

Prismatix - Prismatix is an easy to play hexagonal matching game. The wheel shows a color sequence. Try to eliminate gems by matching the sequence in any direction. As gems are cleared (up to four at a time) the wheel will shuffle and rotate, based on the number of gems used. Creating four links will award big points and also add to your spin multiplier!

Combo 11 - With face cards removed from the deck makes sets of 11. As cards are eliminated, you can press the "Next" button to add available cards to the playfield. If no moves are left, you can use "Jumble" to mix up the cards

Carpet - A new take on the card game you know and love... Solitaire. The object of the game is to move all cards to the foundations where the aces have already been dealt. All cards from "the Carpet" must be moved to the foundations upwards by suit (i.e. 2 over A). Any "holes on the carpet," or gaps left behind by the cards that have been moved to the foundations, are filled by cards from the waste pile.

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I think this story pretty well sums up what's wrong with Midway these days. When I got the press release today announcing that Midway was bringing five games to the iPhone and iPod Touch by the end of the month, I got kind of excited. I immediately started jogging through the awesome classic Midway arcade games in my head that I would totally pay between 99 cents and $2.99 for, play once, and then never touch again. Turns out, the five games in question are from their TouchMaster series, which will be available for 99 cents apiece, or as a bundle for $3.99. I guess this makes sense, considering that these games already use touchscreen interfaces, and that the most successful iPhone games so far have been mad casual, but dammit, where's my Smash TV, my Marble Madness, or my Paperboy?

For the sake of people who spend a lot of time getting drunk in bars and playing lots of TouchMaster games instead of talking to people (I shouldn't judge, I just drink by myself in my house which is way worse,) here's the meat of the press release.

Spellwinder - This is a word search game with a twist. Only adjacent letters can be used to create a word. Make words in any direction without using the same letter twice.

Dice King - This dice swapping puzzle is super addicting! Swap two adjacent dice to form matching combinations of three or more dice. Attempt to form the listed combinations displayed on the top portion of the screen and watch your score rise.

Prismatix - Prismatix is an easy to play hexagonal matching game. The wheel shows a color sequence. Try to eliminate gems by matching the sequence in any direction. As gems are cleared (up to four at a time) the wheel will shuffle and rotate, based on the number of gems used. Creating four links will award big points and also add to your spin multiplier!

Combo 11 - With face cards removed from the deck makes sets of 11. As cards are eliminated, you can press the "Next" button to add available cards to the playfield. If no moves are left, you can use "Jumble" to mix up the cards

Carpet - A new take on the card game you know and love... Solitaire. The object of the game is to move all cards to the foundations where the aces have already been dealt. All cards from "the Carpet" must be moved to the foundations upwards by suit (i.e. 2 over A). Any "holes on the carpet," or gaps left behind by the cards that have been moved to the foundations, are filled by cards from the waste pile.

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pretty fucking lame.

No Mortal Kombat?

Weaksause.

Meh...

We should probably start our own "save Midway fund" right about now. Someone set up a chipin account.

Oh man... Weak effort, your trying to save a company in failing health like this?

I haven't ever heard of a single one of those games...

Here's hoping they sell.

Midway, why won't you learn? I want my MK or Smash TV. Hell, give me Rampage or Joust for all I care. You CAN bank on your past, you know.

Please no MK. There's ports-o-plenty already. Another isn't needed.

The thing is that this is good for us if we want top notch MK games. People eat this stuff up and Midway isn't in a good spot right now. These games could really help them stay afloat.

FAIL

No no nO NO!!!  Midway should officially change their name to Halfway.  Snap!
DICE and BOGGLE?!?  2009 and we get DICE and BOGGLE.
I could have more fun with the mock spirit level app.

Well, I guess lets hope they sell. Still, a halfass effort. Sadly, these games will make way more money then smash TV ever would have.

fuck it i'd buy it. i had a great time with Rolando so i can totally see the potential of the iphone now. and these games are tailored made for the iphone, they're not the best but i'm sure it will be fun to play around with when i'm ridding the subway. 

Man can you really blame them though? then need to make a shit load of money fast or there done for, a I really don`t want Midway to go, I already lost Free Radical : (

*yawn* Solitaire, Boggle, some dice...I'm not excited. Midway could revive some of their old stuff. A new Championship Sprint? Gauntlet with local WiFi multiplayer?

If Nintendo would let them, which is highly unlikely, maybe Midway could port Cruis'n USA to the iPhone. I'd hit it. And tilt it.

You know, while it's funny to talk about a Midway being out of touch and releasing a bunch of games no one cares about, but would you really want a Mortal Kombat on the iphone? I mean think about it.

"You know, while it's funny to talk about a Midway being out of touch and releasing a bunch of games no one cares about, but would you really want a Mortal Kombat on the iphone? I mean think about it."

Yeah, just waht the iPhone needed. More puzzle games...

I....


Goddamnit.
I hate Apple. Their the new nintendo of personal computers/devices. Seriously. ENOUGH. Let us have simulated boobs (and dicks tooooo!) and Mortal Kombat (M rated!) and shit on the damn iPhone and shit.

/sigh

Oh well, I don't have an iPhone, especially not when you have to pay for software updates and shit. No thanks.

And Midway, I've pretty much given up on them. I mean, a T rated Mortal Kombat?? Casual touch games? I really doubt flailing around for some economic well being is going to help them. Chainging your shit even more in a desperate plea for funds=fail. Going back to your roots when you were good=win.

no iphone on me