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[edit] New Category

I was just thinking, sure there be a category for American video game companies, like Midway? They got one for the Japanese game companies so shouldn't there be one for the American ones too?

[edit] In response to Article Errors and Inconsistencies

The article clearly states that when Midway Home Entertainment was formed in 1996 back then it developed all the console video games while the Chicago studio developed all arcade games. But that was back in 1996. In the mean time the Chicago began developing console video games, probably before the arcade division was shut down.

[edit] WMS info (from the Williams talk board)

Straight from user Lkoziarz:

This is incorrect information that has been propagating around the internet for a while. As an ex-WMS employee, I can verify that the name WMS has NEVER stood for "Williams/Midway/Sente". The Sente videogame system was sold by Bushnell to Bally/Midway, but was killed off way before the Williams acquisition of Bally ever took place. When Nicastro took Williams public, he needed a shell corporation to cover Williams and some of the subsidiary companies, so the name "WMS" was created just as a shortening of "Williams".

DuoDeathscyther 02 16:23, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Midway location

In 2002, Midway left the WMS building to relocate elsewhere in Chicago.

I've been an employee at Midway since late 2000, and Midway had already been occupying the 2727 W. Roscoe and 3325 California offices for many years before I arrived. Maybe the legal address was still located inside the WMS building across Roscoe street, but in my opinion it's inaccurate to say that Midway "moved" elsewhere when even the CEO's office was inside the 2727 building. --40 Watt 20:30, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Article Errors and Inconsistencies

There are several issues between the list of divisions and the list of studios. Specifically , in the divisions list it is claimed that all midway games are produced by Midway Home Entertainment on the west coast, yet in the studios section it states that the chicago development studio produces some of its console titles.

Furthermore, there are several typos sprinkled throughout this article. I was not too keen on tracking them down, I'll leave that for whomever has the time to properly edit this article. --167.127.24.69 18:15, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

"In October 2003 Midway said it expected to see about $100 million in revenues for the 2003 year, and $100 million in losses despite this." - this does not sound right, and it's outdated anyway. Amusingly, this sentence apparently dates back to the very first version of this article. (Sredni Vashtar)

[edit] Question

I remember reading that the development of Narc was some sort of re-surgance for Midway, where all new people and equipment were brought in. This group became the core from which the other digitized games came from, such as Terminator 2, NBA Jam, and Mortal Kombat. Is this correct? Wasn't there some sort of gap between Narc and previous Midway games? a lot of my friends own Mortal Kombat (for N64,PS2)I remember playing it at the arcade at the mall.

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Midway Manufacturing.jpg

Image:Midway Manufacturing.jpg is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.

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[edit] Midway Forums clarification and/or relevance

Is there any reason we should know the information provided here? Having forum information, and such trivial information at that, is practically redundant when we have a link to Midway Games at the bottom being used as a reference. What prevents anyone from simply visiting the site and looking at the forums themselves?

Midway has a Forum, at http://forums.midway.com . It has over 20,000 users and has been running since July 2005.

The Forum is primarily active when a Mortal Kombat is due to be out. When Mortal Kombat: Armageddon was out, the Board dedicated to Armageddon got over 200,000 Posts. Mortal Kombat 8 is due out Autumn 2008. It is expected to make the Boards Super active. Lots of users are active on there, and the Top Poster Snake_Judge has over 10,000 posts.

Sorry - but that's a dumb argument. You could equally ask why ANY information is present on Wikipedia? Why not replace the entire encyclopedia with a list of links to references? (Also, please sign your posts with four tilde characters ~~~~) SteveBaker (talk) 20:39, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Bally Midway.jpg

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BetacommandBot 13:23, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Midway Manufacturing.jpg

Image:Midway Manufacturing.jpg is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.

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BetacommandBot (talk) 07:09, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Added fair use rationales to all logos.

I added fair use rationales for all three logo images. SteveBaker (talk) 20:40, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Midway CEO Resigns

http://kotaku.com/370220/midway-boss-resigns-board-makes-booty-call


--68.209.227.3 (talk) 22:53, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] C64?

From early 1982, I still remember some - even though few - Bally Midway games for the C64. Were these released directly by BM or were they only the copyright holder? Not quite sure, hence no edit. -andy 85.179.223.255 (talk) 23:44, 28 March 2008 (UTC)