1887: Midway Arcade Origins PS3 \\ Total Carnage, Wizard of War, Xenophobe, Xybots, etc!
0Checking out the last chunk of games, alphabetically, in Midway Arcade Origins on PS3, played in RPCS3: Total Carnage, Tournament Cyberball 2072, Vindicators: Part II, Wizard of Wor, Xenophobe, and Xybots!
My Midway Games playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZO3OPzPjIzOtF9kkXeWpsMwEwiDfsCA5
0:00 - start
2:32 - Total Carnage
8:15 - Tournament Cyberball 2072
23:03 - Vindicators: Part II
29:35 - Wizard of Wor
32:38 - Xenophobe
1:05:37 - Starbase health room
1:16:44 - melting Mama Michelangelo style
2:07:46 - Xybots
2:19:51 - wrap!
I didn't really like any of these games so this is kind of a downer episode. ; D
Total Carnage is another twin-stick shooter by Robotron co-creator Eugene Jarvis but it's even grosser than it's predecessor Smash T.V., bleh. So '90s.
Tournament Cyberball 2072: regular Cyberball is in the PS2 collections and is a halfway decent football game thing although I don't like the exploding ball; but it's really the butterfingered passing that I fail at too hard. Didn't even try the "Tournament" mode whatever that might be in this 4-player cab, but single-player you're stuck playing in less than half the screen which is not ideal.
Vindicators: Part II - Kind of an okay futuristic tank blowing up things thing I suppose; the upgrade purchasing shtick (see also Xybots) is tiresome and I just ended up getting hit a lot and being impatient, so I dunno.
Wizard of Wor: I find the graphics and movement hard to handle, not really into it.
Xenophobe especially was a bit depressing because I've always sucked at it and never really got the controls/gameplay, ever since playing it as a kid in the arcade, but this was a proper high res (after setting the screen back to the slightly bordered view, 'cause Zoom was grossly chunked) version and I thought here's my chance to get into this--but while there's a bit of a process you can do in reading the "Code" from a note on the floor and then breaking a window and entering the code to blow up the base and get a 100 pt bonus per alien you'd killed, the real way to go (300 pt bonus per alien) is to clear the base, which simply involves crouching along zapping aliens monotonously with the long-range pistol through looping generic space stations forever.
That YouTube comment with Xenophobe play tips is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9uBXrNKm0Y&lc=UgghJKqj98vP3XgCoAEC (crouch, ~infinite grenade exploit, exploit health machine on Beta level of Starbase, laser gun best weapon).
Xybots: Sort of fun long-range duels but close-range sucks and really makes navigating the pseudo-3D maze feel like heck, especially without the arcade's twisty joystick. Also, it's just really friggin' hard.
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So of the 31 games in this collection, I like Joust, Joust 2, Robotron, Satan's Hollow, and Toobin', and kinda get hopelessly addicted to Arch Rivals and Rampage. ; )
And this may be the last versions of these games that we get because WB Games bought them but only seem interested in pumping out Mortal Kombats.
Next I'm gonna go through the three PS2 collections and cover the games in those that aren't in this one!
5/4/24
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