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Williams Arcade's Greatest Hits

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…

70 1 February 1996

Williams Arcade's Greatest Hits is an arcade developed by Digital Eclipse, released 1 February 1996 on Sega Mega Drive/Genesis and Super Nintendo Entertainment System.

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What Williams Arcade's Greatest Hits is

Williams Arcade's Greatest Hits is an arcade game developed by Digital Eclipse and released in 1996. It was published by Williams Entertainment. It is available on Sega Mega Drive/Genesis and Super Nintendo Entertainment System.

The premise, in the publisher's words

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. It was also released for PlayStation and Sega Saturn but includes the extra game Bubbles as well as video interviews with the original developers.
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How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Williams Arcade's Greatest Hits holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 35% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 1996 averaged 70, so it scored about average for its year.

What it launched against

Williams Arcade's Greatest Hits launched on 1 February 1996, within three weeks of Soul Edge, Guardian Heroes, Dungeons & Dragons: Shadow over Mystara and Wing Commander IV: The Price of Freedom. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.

Released around the same time: Soul Edge, Guardian Heroes, Dungeons & Dragons: Shadow over Mystara, Wing Commander IV: The Price of Freedom.

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When did Williams Arcade's Greatest Hits come out?
Williams Arcade's Greatest Hits was released on 1 February 1996 for Sega Mega Drive/Genesis and Super Nintendo Entertainment System.

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