Midway Rocks the House

Item

Title
Midway Rocks the House
Description
Promotional VHS tape mailed out by Midway in 1997. The tape may have also been distributed at Toys R Us stores. Contains previews and trailers for several Midway games, and includes a segment on the making of Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Sub-Zero.

00:00 - Intro
01:04 - Top Gear Rally
01:59 - San Francisco Rush: Extreme Racing
03:13 - Mace: The Dark Age
04:20 - Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Sub Zero
05:34 - Maximum Force
06:31 - NBA Fast Break '98
07:23 - Wayne Gretzky's 3D Hockey '98
08:30 - Pandemonium 2
09:21 - Rampage: World Tour
10:31 - Gex: Enter the Gecko
11:19 - Outro
11:50 - Behind the Scenes of Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Sub-Zero
20:12 - Mortal Kombat 4 (Arcade)
21:53 - Midway studio tour
24:46 - Fatality hints
26:02 - NFL Blitz (Arcade)
26:41 - Off Road Challenge (Arcade)

Developers interviewed:
• John Tobias
• Ed Boon
• Joshua Tsui
• John Walsh
• Eugene Geer
• Bill Dablestein
• Rich Ho
• Carlos Pesina
• Jim Tianis
• Eddie Ferrier
• Eugene Jarvis

Video captured using a JVC SR-VS20 VCR fed through a Panasonic DMR-ES10 to a Black Magic Intensity 4K capture card. Video has been deinterlaced and compressed for maximum compatibility.

Due to this item having been released as a free promotion, Hit Save has made the video files available to view on our archive in a compressed format.

480i ProRes captures remain on record. If you are a video game history researcher and would like access to the physical item or the raw files, please contact us. Such requests are approved on a case by case basis at the discretion of the director.

Further Reading:
Wikipedia - Midway
Wikipedia - Mortal Kombat (series)
Wikipedia - Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Sub-Zero
Date Issued
1997
Creator
Midway
Format
VHS (NTSC)
Identifier
ark:/78322/6254
Language
English
Publisher
Midway
Spatial Coverage
WIL-1

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