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Midway Arcade Treasures 2 is the second collection of old arcade games published by Midway for the GameCube, PlayStation 2, and Xbox. This compilation includes 20 games that were not in the 2003 release of Midway Arcade Treasures
or the 2005 release of Midway Arcade Treasures 3
.

The game plays similar on all three consoles however the Xbox version has the exclusive ability to upload scores to an online scoreboard. The special features on each version of game are the same. These include game histories, developer interviews, and other documents.

Games

The collection consists of the following 20 arcade games:

A.P.B.
Arch Rivals
Championship Sprint
Cyberball 2072
Gauntlet II
Hard Drivin

Kozmik Krooz'r

Mortal Kombat II

Mortal Kombat 3

NARC

Pit-Fighter

Primal Rage

Rampage World Tour

SpyHunter 2

Timber

Total Carnage

Wacko

Wizard of Wor

Xenophobe

Xybots

Note: This collection was given an "M"-rating largely because of Mortal Kombat's II & 3, NARC and Total Carnage, which is supposed to be a spin-off of Smash TV
. With all the other games, the compilation would have received a rating of a "T" (for teen) or lower.

This collection was planned to include all three Mortal Kombat titles plus Steel Talons and STUN Runner. The first Mortal Kombat game was moved to the extras disc in the limited edition version of Mortal Kombat: Deception
, while the other two games were omitted entirely because of developmental problems.
Criticisms
Emulation Problems

Many of the games featured in this collection are emulated versions of the arcade games and not actually ports. It can be extremely difficult to emulate certain games and get them 100% accurate, and some of the games (Mortal Kombat 2, Mortal Kombat 3
, Pit-Fighter
and NARC
in particular) have some obvious sound and graphical glitches.

The Start Button Issue'

The "start button" in this game has 2 functions: Starting a game or pausing a game. So in another words, unless you have to start or continue a game the "start button" will work as a "pause button". This is where the problems come in for the Mortal Kombat games:

Mortal Kombat 2 and Mortal Kombat 3
utilized the "start button" to perform "random select" by pressing Up+Start at the character select screen.
In Mortal Kombat 2, in order to fight the hidden character Smoke, you had to press Down+Start in the Portal while getting a "Toasty!" message.

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