Williams Arcade Classics

Description

The first big commercially-available emulator collection (and a direct outgrowth of Digital Eclipse's early emulation work on the Macintosh.)

DOS version

• Defender - side-scrolling shooter
• Defender II - side-scrolling shooter
• Joust - joust on flying ostriches
• Robotron: 2084 - single-screen manic shoot 'em up
• Sinistar - overhead free-range space shooter
• Bubbles - play a scrubbing bubble in a game similar to the arcade Reactor
• Also contains FMV supplements, including interviews with the original programmers.

Windows version

• Defender
• Defender II (a.k.a. Stargate)
• Joust
• Robotron
• Sinistar
• Bubbles
• Also contains FMV supplements, including interviews with the original programmers.

Dreamcast version

• Defender
• Defender II (a.k.a. Stargate)
• Joust
• Robotron
• Sinistar
• Bubbles

PlayStation

• Defender
• Defender II (a.k.a. Stargate)
• Joust
• Robotron
• Sinistar
• Bubbles
• Also contains FMV supplements, including interviews with the original programmers.

SNES version

• Defender
• Defender II (a.k.a. Stargate)
• Joust
• Robotron
• Sinistar

Genesis version

• Defender
• Defender II (a.k.a. Stargate)
• Joust
• Robotron
• Sinistar

Game.Com version

• Defender
• Joust
• Robotron
• SiniStar
• Defender II

Alternate Titles

• "Williams Digital Arcade" -- European title
• "Williams Arcade's Greatest Hits" -- PSX/Genesis/Saturn/SNES title
• "Midway's Greatest Arcade Hits 1" -- Dreamcast title

Part of the Following Groups

• Classic Compilation games
• Williams arcade emulation series

Merchant Title Platform Price   Arcade's Greatest Hits Genesis $3.87   Williams Arcades Greatest Hits PlayStation $2.75   Midway Greatest Arcade Hits Vol 1 DC Dreamcast $4.00   Williams Arcade's Greatest Hits SNES $0.49   Williams Arcade Classics     Please select your country: United States Argentina Australia Austria Belgium Brazil Brunei Bulgaria Canada Chile China Colombia Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Estonia Finland France Germany Greece Hong Kong Hungary Iceland India Indonesia Ireland Israel Italy Japan Latvia Lithuania Luxembourg Macau Macedonia Malaysia Malta Mexico The Netherlands New Zealand Norway Philippines Poland Portugal Romania Russia Saudi Arabia Serbia Singapore Slovakia Slovenia South Africa South Korea Spain Sweden Switzerland Taiwan Thailand Turkey Ukraine United Kingdom Uruguay Other Worldwide Not an American user?

User Reviews

Timeless Masterpieces	SNES	D P (124)
Fun and tight emulator package.	DOS	Robert Morgan (882)

The Press Says

The Video Game Critic	PlayStation	Jul 15, 1999	A	100
GamePro	PlayStation	Jun, 1996	4.5 out of 5	90
GamesFirst!	Game.Com	Oct 02, 1999		80
All Game Guide	PlayStation	1998		80
PC Player (Germany)	DOS	Dec, 1995	73 out of 100	73
Game Players	PlayStation	Jun, 1996	71 out of 100	71
Video Games & Computer Entertainment	PlayStation	Jun, 1996	7 out of 10	70
Sega-16.com	Genesis	Jan 18, 2007	6 out of 10	60
PC Games (Germany)	Windows	Dec, 1996	50 out of 100	50
GamePro	Genesis	Feb, 1997	2.5 out of 5	50

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Trivia

Defender II is better known as Stargate- after the arcade release, Williams determined that the game's name infringed on an existing trademark (apparently for a board game), and the name was changed.

Despite Williams' assertions, though, the game's name was not changed immediately after the arcade release. The disc reveals that Williams programmers had to go to Atari to reprogram the title screen for the already-finished 2600 version... the problem is, the game was in release *as Stargate* for the 2600 later in the year- the Defender II variant didn't show up in stores until 1988. Unless the 2600 game was programmed and released at the same time as the arcade game, Williams' timeline is faulty.

(After the release of the movie Stargate a few years ago, several related home video and board games were released, without trademark conflict.)