All Things Midway Going To The Highest Bidder

@CarnageAce:

I read naked chicken at first and had a horrible impression of you.

I apoligize.

SaanZ

@Jerry Blanton: I don't know about Sony, but I can see Microsoft and Nintendo having interest in the properties... more MS than Nintendo though.

Cueil

@waywardchemist: This is an easy buy for MS... at least to get the classic game. Then they can bring the DC and N64 version of Gauntlet over to XBLA

Cueil

@Zero254: Only if it was the milk from yesterday... that you put in your coffee

Cueil

@tnmnsquare: It's a very good game though

Cueil

@Comatose Turtle: Oh man! RAMMMPAAAGEE!

tnmnsquare

@Voodoo77: yeah exactly, when i saw the trailers for MK v DC i just shook my head and laughed at its cheesy lameness.

tnmnsquare

HEY! Get lost Loch Ness Monsta. I ain't givin' you no tree fiddy.

I bid tree-fiddy

Would this give WB film rights to MK or what they have to deal with Threshold Entertainment or whoever?

I totally wish I had the cash to scoop up Robotron. I'd totally start making the arcade cabinets again

avtiger

@Zero254: Total carnage - I love it!

Shadowguitar

@hot_heart:

Big money, big prizes, I love it!

Powerlurker

@Etheris: I'm in. So who's got change for a 10?

@jjammerzs: I say we make a Guitar Hero: Mortal Kombat.

ZombiePuppy

@Lockgar:

Midway only provided their DCS technology and distributed the two Killer Instinct games. Rareware / Nintendo were the actual developers.

@Ben9: Capcom hasn't developed a good fighter since 3rd strike.

@jjammerzs: I'm not sure MK is worth breaking a $20 over

GeneralFBDZ

If I were a billionaire I would totally buy the rights to Rampage and Spyhunter and get a solid development team together to make a high-quality XBLA/PSN version of each....in the same school of thought as Pac Man Championship Edition or Galaga Legions. A version that keeps the fun and core ideas of the original while updating the gameplay in a sensible way.

jcb231

@Heliophage: Mortal Kombat has a future??

Voodoo77

@Comatose Turtle: Talk about inflation...

@Vanilla_Ninja: I taught I taw a tuddy t *shnick*

SUB ZERO WINS!

@Kenny: Just add a naked chick and be done. You'd sell 20 million day 1.

@Cunder: A penny for rampage! It's all it's worth!

@Cunder:

You laugh but if anyone remembers a few years back when ACCLAIM's IPs were up for auction some were going for CHUMP CHANGE.

Joe Lachiana

Imagine Rampage using the Unreal Engine 3? Wow, that would be awesome.

@Cunder: 75euros!

Ricardo Freitas

@jjammerzs: I've got about 22 million, the rest is up to you guys

@excel_excel: Sure why not ^_^

@undefined: 80 MS points

put me up for 7000$ on joust. I've loved that game since I was a kid.

Cloudleet

@CmdrBladeHearts is replacing his perfectly good screen name...: MY AXE!

@jjammerzs: You have my sword.

@Curse_Lily: Oh I know your a grrrrrllll. I'll call you dudette!

@undefined: How about Capcom for the biggest Western match-up ever!!! I'm talking about Mk V.S. Street fighter!!

So basically, MK was the only thing keeping Midway afloat for a while now.

@Enkur: Loved that game. I rank it among the PS2's best and most distinctive RPGs.
Besides the great (if not altogether sane) story, it was a shining example of turn-based combat done right. The Wheel of Judgement made each fight feel tense, especially when your survival hinged upon hitting those tiny red slices.

I would love to see a PS3/360 entry in the series (more SH1 and 2, less SH3), but I won't hold my breath...

(McWhertor's Photoshop flair never ceases to delight.)

Next gen smash tv/rampage sound pretty cool. I'm sure somebody could do some amazing things with Rampage.

MDX

Is there anything we can bid on that will allow Shadow Hearts 2 to be published again? Please?

Enkur

I will buy the Paper boy IP for $100. Next gen paper boy coming at you, "Paper Man."

Munchafa

@jjammerzs: I'll sell some games which should give me about....150 bucks maybe? maybe I should sell my Wii too. if we get the rights to mortal Kombat, what then? We should talk with a developer and see what they can help us out with? List some of your favorite developers.
Im down with Valve, Square Enix, and maybe Jupiter.

@Ben9: Well my mistake then still it doesn't change the fact the i spend way to much money playing it and would love to play it again(for old times sake)

@redspidey: and how great would it be to have an undead ninja looking thing actually play like an undead ninja looking thing

kinstinct

@relax_guy:

You do realize that's Disney and not Looney Tunes, right?

JB2K- Algebra Charms! They're Logically Delicious!

@TaggarT6 coming soon to a theater near you!: The trouble with that is the drastically different fighting paces between the series. Street Fighter tends to feature much faster fighting than Mortal Kombat.

@TaggarT6 coming soon to a theater near you!: Somehow I'm envisioning Seth getting beat down with fatalities by frustrated Street Fighter 4 players :)

@bwwardiii: Wow! If you sell them all you'd have fifty bucks!

@Curse_Lily: I think you're thinking Midway published the KI titles? Nah, they only distributed the arcade versions (machines).

Ben9

@riceKRISPYninja: aaaahhhh

riceKRISPYninja

@ChaosBahamut: But those aren't up for bid, that's the point. Midway is selling a certain number of things to Warner Bros. for $33 million, and auctioning off the rest.

Dreamwriter

@Curse_Lily: Midway just acted as a distributor for the arcade game. It'd be the same as me making an offer for Moon Patrol, another game Midway distributed though it was developed by Irem.

I'd totally buy the Joust license.

jlarimore

@waywardchemist: As is Robotron 2084. Too bad they're such barebones ports of 20-year-old plus arcade fare most people won't be interested in. There's no reason Midway could not have made an effort to make a new Gauntlet for XBLA/PSN among other sorely needed updates.

Now for some reason, I have a picture of pulling off a fatality on some one, but instead of saying FATALITY! It says Th-th-th-th-thats all folks"........ but in a really masculine voice of course.

@excel_excel: I remember a huge logo on the side of arcade cabinet the said "Midway" so or either I'm nuts(probably i am)or there was a huge misprint on the cabinet.

P.S I'm a girl so you better remember that Mr.Mid Boss >:[

@excel_excel: Capcom hasn't developed a fighter since Capcom Fighting Evolution. If that tells you anything.

Ben9

@jjammerzs:

Eight dollars + pocket lint POOL'D

@riceKRISPYninja: I don't think that offer has been accepted by Midway yet, so if WB hasn't set a deadline for them to accept it, they could be open to better offers.

firefly

@riceKRISPYninja: Cause someone may bid higher.

ChaosBahamut

@Comatose Turtle:

i wonder what goofy's fatality would be?

@Curse_Lily: Killer Instinct? thats Rare dude...er girl....er girl dude

@Kenny:

let the likeness be used in a educational programming, but only in super deformed baby form.

@Goldwings: Has no idea why his avatar is a smiling sun: Valve? Ok except Valve...

@Lockgar: My mistake.

@Curse_Lily: Killer Itstinks is by Rare. Yes, my disgust of the game can only be measured in school yard taunts circa 1991.

@danterandal19: Do they take soda cans? Cuz I've got hundreds of those.

@twinturbo2: Joust, Paperboy and Gauntlet are already on XBLA.

@Comatose Turtle:

I've got 10...

bwwardiii

@danterandal19: Consider my six dollars IN.

Mahler

@Cunder: Can a corporate entity wear a G-string? If so, I'll gladly tuck in some $100 bills for Gauntlet, Spy Hunter, and Robotron. Hell, I'd pay extra to get a Midway lap dance for Hydro Thunder.

Well, let's say that MK sells 2,000,000 x-platform. That ends up being 120,000,000 bones... minus the cost of development and production, and you have a very nice investment for the low, low price of $33 mill.

Hypothetically speaking, of course.

ademu

Big Money! Big Prizes!

I LOVE IT!

@Jerry Blanton: youre right, beat me to it. i was going to say "uh.. if the people who already have the rights havent considered making ki 3.. then we wont see one"

I'll buy the rights to "Toobin'"; i'll remake it, put in a poor representation of Miley Cyrus as the main character, and voila! Profit!

i think warner bros should buy the whole company and make it their games division. they could then lay off idiots.. and hire (hopefully) good people to take control.

i think its smart for companies like disney, fox, warner bros, and the like to get serious about gaming.. considering they have other sources of income that do just fine.. theyll be able to take the hit that development costs bring.

@jjammerzs:

I'll give ya everything I got...some quarters lying around here somewhere..

Doesn't already say that WB put in a bid for MK studio's as well as Mortal Kombat??

So, why does everyone think Mortal Kombat is up for sale??

riceKRISPYninja

Allow me to say goodbye my cherish memory

Hydro Thunder(awesome game)
Ready 2 Rumble Boxing(awesome game as well)
Killer Instinct(i spend hundreds playing the arcade version)
Psi-Ops(i enjoy watching my friend play it)
Spy Hunter(and the PS2 version as well)
Gauntlet Dark Legacy(i play that shit for hours)

@Lockgar:
I could be wrong, but isn't "Killer Instinct" owned by Rare?

Jerry Blanton

Its always sad to see them go, especially when you've known them for years.

Andre Oceans

Smash TV?! I'd buy that for a dollar!

@jjammerzs: I have a moldy cup of coffee I found behind the monitor at a random desk im working at. How much you reckon its worth?

@Heliophage: Capcom should buy it and create a Capcom vs MK cross over.

I'll bid for tron and Spy hunter as the next big PSN, Live, etc for a great price and promise NOT to mess up the basic formula that made those games fun. I will also promise everything out of the box/digital distribution and put out as much free DLC as possible.

It won't happen, because I'm talking nonsense. I mean whoever heard of a company doing it for the fans/buyer?

@ColonelMunch: you would be fighting crime as a caped crusader instead of logged on to Kotaku (yeah, me too...)

I'll raise another dollar, and 2 packs of bubble gum.

I actually knew someone that started working at midway last winter. "He moved out there, otherwise he would still be here." He apparently saw what was happening and was able to get a job some where else. Ah Midway, what happened?

I wounder if the people who get the rights to Killer Instinct might consider making part 3.

@excel_excel: WHOA. Deja vu.

I'm surprised one of the hardware makers like Microsoft or Sony doesn't consider buying these IPs.

Jerry Blanton

@jjammerzs: That's about as much as it's worth to me, but I'll throw in a couple more dollars to help out. :)

Nah, kidding, but it will be interesting to see who gets this. I'm curious to see how much financial clout the MK franchise still carries and who would be willing to pay the most for it.

firefly

Hopefully, all of the classic IPs stay in one place, and that WB buys them up, too. You know, so they can be put up on XBLA/PSN/VC Arcade...

twinturbo2

@Zerorush: And Capcom developing it means it wouldn't turn out shit!

@jjammerzs: Add $1 to the pool, yeeeeaaaah. We got this.

@Vanilla_Ninja:
Pjeheheheh thats all folks! ANIMATALITY

I'd buy that for a dollar!

Zero254

If i was a billionaire..

@The Weird Pixel:
102 dollars for MK even if it's just to kill off Johnny Cage

I'll give you $5 for Rampage. Take it or leave it.

LOL @ SCORPION'S MASK.

YOU GUYS OWE ME SOME NEW MILK.

Zero254

Fantasy=Capcom buying the rights to Mortal Kombat.

You all know you want MK Vs. SF to happen, now is as good a time as any for it to happen <3

who wants to chip in for the Mortal Kombat I.p? I have (checks pockets) about twenty bucks...

Awesome pic. Now just imagine Porky Pig bursting through the WB logo saying "th-th-th-that's all folks!"
...
I just freaked myself out..

gaijira

@Cunder:
101 dollars for Joust!!

Next up MK vs Looney Tunes!

ohhh!! TNA Wrestling! I hope to god Capcom picks that up. That way we can hopefully see the debut of characters from the video game into TNA itself just like the first game and how Suicide jumped from the video game into real life!....god TNA is fucking crazy

Oh man, if I hit the lotto I'm buying Mortal Kombat. How awesome would that be? I could single handedly destroy everybody's favorite childhood game or bring it back to life (for a price).

I'll offer 100 dollars!! come on Midway you know you want my Benjamin bill :D

I wonder if any internet clique is ballsy enough to raise funds and outbid Warner Brothers, just to steal the future of Mortal Kombat.

Heist Almighty if ever I've seen one.

@Cueil:
lol no its not

anduin1

@jjammerzs: I gots about threefiddy..

D-K, owhoo... how unfortunate..

@ColonelMunch: you wouldn't eat kraft dinners... but we would eat kraft dinners, we'd just eat more.

buckeyes75

@Dreamwriter: Actually, they are up for bid. You just have to buy Midway and some other stuff too. And it'll cost you over $33M.