Midway OFFICIALLY Quits Coin-Op Market

Patrick McCarron

TRMK Admin, Co-founder
Staff member
As we reported back on <a href="http://www.trmk.org/news/765/midway_ceases_coinop_mk5s_arcade_future_uncertain_.html">March 8th</a>, <a href="http://www.midway.com">Midway Games</a> announced Friday in a <a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/rf/010622/n22552354.html">press release</a> that it is pulling out of the coin-op market to focus <i>"on games for home game platforms, such as PlayStation2 , the Xbox system from Microsoft Corp. and Nintendo Co. Ltd.'s GameCube and Game Boy Advance."</i> because of the <i>"ongoing declining demand in the coin-operated arcade video game market".</i>
<BR><BR>Now since we've known this fact for the last few months, we knew the outcome of a situation like this. What this does is verify that we will most likely not see another <B>Mortal Kombat</b> sequel in the arcades. Now we can continue to ponder the bizarreness of the character sketch from yesterday.
 
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