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Instruction booklet · October 1996

Williams Arcade's Greatest Hits

Arcade1 playerESRB E

The story

Williams Arcade's Greatest Hits for Super Nintendo Entertainment System and Sega Mega Drive/Genesis is a compilation of the Arcade games: Robotron: 2084, Joust, Sinistar, Defender and Defender II. The Sega Mega Drive/Genesis release was retitled to Midway Presents Arcade's Greatest Hits in Europe.

Specifications

Released: October 1996
Developer: Digital Eclipse Software
Publisher: Williams Entertainment
Players: 1
Genre: Arcade
Rating: ESRB E
Series: Arcade's Greatest Hits
Themes: Action
View: Side view

What the magazines said

EGM · not on record yet

GamesMaster: DC: 65%
Official Dreamcast Magazine: DC: 3/10

BE KIND, REWINDOctober 1996

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The First Wives Club$11,017,356 weekend

Vol. 6 · No. 268Omaha, Nebraska · Late edition25¢

The Omaha World-Pixel

Week of October 4, 1996

Oct. 4

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