Stealthy nostalgia aside, the 90s were particularly stacked — from Bill Clinton's over-hyped blow jobs to the ungodly amounts of caffeine consumed via cans of Surge. In between those era-specific vices, many of us likely spent countless hours immersed in a universe developed by the iconic video game minds at Midway Games.
From NBA Jam to Mortal Kombat to the supremely underrated Cruis'n USA, Midway's 90s catalog was the result of a furiously active team of restless creatives. Now, a former Midway employee is funding a documentary centered on this era of the studio's verbose catalog — including interviews with the legendary developers behind some of the most revered video games of all time:
Though the 90s proved a particularly fruitful period for Midway, the studio's legacy started years earlier — with the acquisition of U.S. distribution rights for Space Invaders in 1978. Throughout its storied history, the company maintained its sense of off-the-wall creative anarchy — often troubling the proverbial powers that be right up until its eventual bankruptcy in 2009.
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