Discussion Zone: => Computers & Technology => Topic started by: Wesker on December 05, 2008, 09:41:25 PM
Title: Midway Games going bankrupt?
Post by: Wesker on December 05, 2008, 09:41:25 PM
According to an associate of mine at the Mortal Kombat Blackout forums:
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Do you guys realize how close Midway is to bankruptcy? The owe 250 million dollars, and need to pay it by January. And that just ain't gonna happen, seeing as they only have 75 million in assets (MK being one of them). Their stock is selling for pennies. Their shareholders are DEMANDING their loans back. This shit just got real serious boys and girls.
The house that built MK is going down the tubes, and at this point, it is almost %100 that the next MK will not be made by Midway. They have to liquidate to attempt to get the shareholders their money back, and just what do you think Midway has left of any value to people? That's right ... OUR MK!
When I first heard of this possibility I thought, ah, someone will just scoop up Midway, and it'll be just like before, except it'll say EA or Activision before Midway when I load the game. But that's not the case. No one is going to buy Midway. It just doesn't make any sense at this point. MK isn't enough to make back that money, and everyone knows it.
MK is in real danger of dying people. And unless one of you is uber, UBER rich, there is nothing we can do about it.
What a shit-load of [cen] it is that MK vs. DC could be the last MK game ever. I'm quite sad and upset. Sorry for ranting.
this news ain't good, fellas. We could lose one of the greatest fighting franchises in history!
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Post by: Flashwerewolf on December 05, 2008, 09:56:50 PM
well if they mismanage their funds, and make bad decisions they can only go under!!
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Post by: kinjo on December 06, 2008, 09:18:00 AM
and if every mk game they make for new consoles blow, what do you expect
they should make games for xbox live and ps3 online and wii online
try some new things, because mk sucks
mk hasnt been good since Mortal Kombat Trilogy on PS1
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Post by: tkoold on December 07, 2008, 01:52:45 PM
Yeah that and Midway has not had any good video games in a long time i mean other then Mortal Kombat you think of things like NFL Blitz and... uhh uhh... yeah i donno what else comes to mind with midway anymore...
Title: Re: Midway Games going bankrupt?
Post by: Wesker on December 07, 2008, 04:52:50 PM
As far as I'm concerned, the last REALLY good MK game was Deadly Alliance, although I enjoyed Shaolin Monks alot too.
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Post by: kinjo on December 08, 2008, 11:17:26 AM
nah Deadly Alliance was all 3d... they destroyed the series by going 3d
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Post by: Wesker on December 08, 2008, 03:05:25 PM
Then how could you forget playing those, sir!? D: That was one of my favourite midway titles!
yeah i suppose it was one of Midways things but it Was more Like a job Done by Nintendo and everyone who played that remembered Nintendo far more then Midway.. though i suppose same can be said for Killer Instinct Lol
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Post by: kinjo on December 09, 2008, 08:59:52 AM
it was impossible to do most Killer Instinct finishing moves
they made them impossible
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Post by: Whalesdude on December 09, 2008, 02:46:14 PM
Yeah. Soul Calibur's were do-able. Killer Instinct's were impossible. :(
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Post by: Wesker on December 10, 2008, 03:47:37 PM
Then how could you forget playing those, sir!? D: That was one of my favourite midway titles!
I never forgot playing those. They just kinda left the arcades and were replaced by newer Silent Scopes and HotD's.
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Post by: Whalesdude on December 10, 2008, 06:07:41 PM
And that other racing game... Rush, I think it was called? I didn't like it very much.
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Post by: kinjo on December 10, 2008, 09:23:59 PM
arcades are not popular in mn, really
got a few, but they are in malls
are they popular where anyone is?
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Post by: ShinamoriAoshi on December 10, 2008, 11:02:44 PM
I only know of ONE arcade, the same arcade that stole 20 dollars from me and all I got was the gratitude of beating Time Crisis 3
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Post by: tkoold on December 11, 2008, 06:19:29 AM
Lols.. yeah the beginning of the End of arcades...
man i mean id only cost me 5$ to beat double dragon, 5$ for Simpsons, 10$ for TMNT 1 and 5$ for TMNT the time warp, and my best story when i was 5 i beat Dragons Lair with just 2$ and had a crowd of some 30-40 people watch in amazement and the manager gave me like 500 Prize tickets and 20 game tokens because of the Huge aplause and said it was good Publicity! [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYO5bvJ5slY[/youtube]
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Post by: Wesker on December 11, 2008, 04:27:30 PM
Much like Shin, I've blown countless dollars to try and beat Time Crisis 3. I still do to this date and can never make it to the very final level.
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Post by: black death on December 11, 2008, 06:21:44 PM
Lols.. yeah the beginning of the End of arcades...
man i mean id only cost me 5$ to beat double dragon, 5$ for Simpsons, 10$ for TMNT 1 and 5$ for TMNT the time warp, and my best story when i was 5 i beat Dragons Lair with just 2$ and had a crowd of some 30-40 people watch in amazement and the manager gave me like 500 Prize tickets and 20 game tokens because of the Huge aplause and said it was good Publicity! [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYO5bvJ5slY[/youtube]
Good job dude, sounds like fun.
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Post by: Thefifthelli on December 11, 2008, 06:31:40 PM
That game I always thought was hard because it was reaction base if I remember correctly and it never did what I wanted it to do, when I wanted it to so I always died.... :cussing:
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Post by: black death on December 11, 2008, 07:31:41 PM
Oh, hi new person!
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Post by: Thefifthelli on December 11, 2008, 09:40:58 PM
Hello ummmmm. Not new person? [warp]
Title: Re: Midway Games going bankrupt?
Post by: black death on December 11, 2008, 10:41:41 PM
I'm BD. I don't know what to call you.
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Post by: tkoold on December 12, 2008, 05:22:09 AM
Yeah it like all the laser disc games you either just Grasped it and remembered what to do or you would find yourself frusterated and mad, myself as a don bluth fan love the animation in the games
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Post by: Wesker on December 20, 2008, 11:49:34 PM
Shame, I never played Dragon's Lair before--never found it at the arcades at my time. I was busy playing Mortal Kombat 3.
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Post by: black death on December 21, 2008, 12:57:57 AM
never played at an arcade place. I always had the games i wanted to play at my house, if i did not have a game i wanted to play i would go to the rental place around the corner and get the game. i usually beat each game i rented within the week. and most of them were those darned RPG's. oh so LONG. T_T
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Post by: Flashwerewolf on December 21, 2008, 02:39:48 AM
yeah RPG consumer myself
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Post by: black death on December 21, 2008, 02:13:07 PM
yeah, me and my bro would always take turn playing them. we usually had an account or whatever for both of us we would usually BOTH beat it by the end of the week. if it was a long one i would watch my bro beat it. and when we got a PS2 we were living in a different house, it had 3 bedrooms(the one im living in nao) so we could not both play it because we were in different rooms. so HE had the ps2 even though it was for both of us. so i kinda stoped playing games for awhile... T_T until we got a comp and i got some comp games ( and joined the 4M! :D) and a few months later i got ps2 and i started renting games.