About the best thing going for this compilation of games is the price. You are getting 29 games fur under a buck apiece. The games will bring back old memories of pumping quarters into coin ops, spending hard-earned allowances or paper route money for an hour of two of top-notch entertainment. Ah, the memories of riding my bike to the local arcade on a summer morning hoping the latest game had finally made its debut at the local gaming establishment. Kids of this age were first introduced to casino-like sounds of coins dropping, musical sounds, and players mashing buttons watching their high scores being beat. When asking a complete stranger to play doubles was actually something. Now with online multiplayer games the tradition has passed and we have new technology that lets us play with a fellow gamer clear across the world. Unfortunately this game missed that mark entirely.

There are 29 games in all and some do have some multiplayer capabilities. That is if you want to program your keyboard so you can huddle around it and play. C’mon guys, is this very realistic? There is just not nearly enough room for four people to play Gauntlet 2 on one keyboard. Sure if you have four gaming pads you could probably get by, but on a 19-inch LCD? I would just as soon play on a console hooked up to a 35-inch TV before going through all that. Each game, and I do mean each, is only set up for keyboard play, so if you want to use a game pad you have to configure each game individually to play. This is not only tedious but very time consuming.

Another drawback to these games is that it requires two disks to launch the exe files. So you have some games on one and other games on the other. This makes having both disks at the ready a must and you have to constantly switch disks if you want to play a game that is not found on that particular disk. That’s fine for most games, but a compilation? Why not have everything on one DVD or at least be able to launch the executable files from either disk? My feeling is that Midway Arcade treasures 2 and 3 were offered as their own games and the publishers found it easier just to repackage them together in one new box using old inventory and call it a deluxe version. Just a guess here. Furthermore why not include treasures one also and really have a good compilation of games?

The games show their nostalgic like visual and audio qualities that make any modern-day gamer appreciate how far technology has grown. Visually the titles looked as good as they did in the arcade but something was amiss on sound. Some games lacked any background music and others had sound hiccups as you played. Not all were bad but enough differences to make you cranky. Another disappointment. 

I enjoy titles or compilations that offer many games but I have to admit that I feel that this was a thrown together idea just to make a few more bucks. A swing and a miss. 

29 classic arcade games including:

Single Player Games

• APB™
• Hard Drivin’™
• Off Road Thunder™
• Race Drivin’®
• San Francisco Rush the Rock: Alcatraz Edition™
• S.T.U.N. Runner™

Two Player Games

• Arch Rivals™
• Badlands™
• Championship Sprint™
• Cyberball 2072™
• Hydro Thunder® 
• Kozmik Krooz’r™
• Mortal Kombat® 
• Mortal Kombat® II
• Mortal Kombat® 3
• NARC®
• Primal Rage®
• Timber™
• Total Carnage™
• San Francisco Rush 2049™
• Spy Hunter® II
• Wacko™
• Wizard of Wor™
• Xybots™

Three/Four Player Games

• Pit Fighter™
• Rampage® World Tour
• Super Off Road™ with bonus Track-Pak!
• Xenophobe®
• Gauntlet® II 

Gameplay: 6.0
Unless you plan to play with the keyboard, you will have to set up each game individually for game pad use. We are talking about 29 games here, Sheesh! Then to add insult to injury you have to keep two discs at the ready, which you have to shuffle between when loading the games. This obviously should have been on one disk or just one executable file found on either disc.

Graphics: 7.0
No enhancements here. But these are nostalgic games. They hold true to their place in time, but when you are used to seeing today’s colossal graphic engines they don’t even compare.

Sound: 6.5
Same as graphics. You are not going to find any mind-blowing surround-sound effects here. Some games lacked any background music like the Mortal Combat trilogy and a few others had some sound issues that were just plain annoying.

Difficulty: Easy
The games are pretty much simplistic to play; it's just getting the games configured to your preferences that is the challenging and time-consuming part.

Concept: 5.0
First off, I love the idea of game compilations. Unfortunately I felt that this one was thrown together from a bunch of unsold copies put into a different box. If you are going to put a compilation together why not include the first arcade treasures disk, too? Furthermore, put them all one DVD or at least have one executable file for all the games so you don’t burn out your CD drive’s tray.

Multiplayer: 4.0
There is no Internet or LAN-type play. You can set up other players to huddle around a keyboard on some of the games that allow you to play with more than one player, or possibly set up a couple of controllers. In my opinion, if I wanted to go through all that, I would just play on a console. Not even a LAN option for a PC game? Truly sad.  

Overall: 5.5
Not bad for 20 bucks, but when I think of the hassles of going back and fourth between disks, I would just rather play another game compilation or fire up a console.