Williams Arcade's Greatest Hits (Mega Drive)

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Williams Arcade's Greatest Hits (Mega Drive)
System(s): Sega Mega Drive, Sega Saturn
Publisher:
Sega Mega Drive
Williams Entertainment (US), Midway (EU)
Sega Saturn
Midway
Developer:
Distributor:
Sega Mega Drive
THQ (EU)
Genre: Compilation

















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Williams Arcade's Greatest Hits is a compilation of arcade games released in 1996/1997 for, among other systems, the Sega Mega Drive and Sega Saturn. The Mega Drive version was published by Williams Entertainment in North America, which, following restructuring and buyouts in the mid-1990s, became part of Midway Games, who published the European Mega Drive and Saturn versions as Midway Presents Arcade's Greatest Hits.

Arcade's Greatest Hits contains a selection of arcade games originally released by Williams Electronics in the early 1980s. The ports were handled by Digital Eclipse, who would go on to produce numerous re-releases of this nature (such as Midway Presents Arcade's Greatest Hits: The Atari Collection 1). Though the Saturn versions are nearly identical to their original arcade forms, on the Mega Drive slight alterations exist to accommodate the differing hardware. The Saturn version also has extras, such as videos and artwork.

The Sega Dreamcast game Midway's Greatest Arcade Hits Volume 1 is much the same as this release, although features higher quality emulations.

Gameplay

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Production Credits

Mega Drive Version

Lead Programmer and Game Translations (except Joust): Dan Filner
Joust Translation: George Phillips
Sound Translation: Terry Coatta, Peter Phillips
Producer: Andrew Ayre
Special Thanks: Wes Gale

Promotional Material

Physical Scans

Mega Drive Version

Sega Retro Average 
Publication Score Source
90 №51, p76/77[1]
Sega Mega Drive
90
Based on
1 review
Sega Retro Average 
Publication Version Score
1700 igr dlya Sega (RU)
40
[2]
Electronic Gaming Monthly (US) NTSC-U
80
[3]
GamePro (US) NTSC-U
48
[4]
Mean Machines Sega (UK) PAL
90
[1]
Sega Power (UK) PAL
64
[5]
Tricks 16 bit (RU)
60
[6]
Sega Mega Drive
64
Based on
6 reviews

Williams Arcade's Greatest Hits (Mega Drive)

Mega Drive, US
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Mega Drive, EU
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Mega Drive, BR
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Saturn Version

Sega Retro Average 
Publication Score Source
70 №69, p80
80 №23, p72/73[7]
Sega Saturn
75
Based on
2 reviews
Sega Retro Average 
Publication Version Score
Sega Saturn
N/A
Based on
0 reviews

Williams Arcade's Greatest Hits (Mega Drive)

Saturn, US
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Manual
  1. 1.0 1.1 File:MeanMachinesSega51UK.pdf, page 76 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":File:MeanMachinesSega51UK.pdf_p76" defined multiple times with different content
  2. 1700 igr dlya Sega, "" (RU; 2001-xx-xx), page 263
  3. Electronic Gaming Monthly, "December 1996" (US; 1996-xx-xx), page 96
  4. GamePro, "February 1997" (US; 1997-xx-xx), page 89
  5. Sega Power, "January 1997" (UK; 1996-12-19), page 37
  6. Tricks 16 bit, "Tricks Sega Gold 800 igr" (RU; 1998-03-20), page 222
  7. File:SSM_UK_23.pdf, page 72