Editing Midway Games (section)

==Getting Popular (1978-1996)==
Midway's breakthrough was with licensing and publishing one of the most popular arcade games of all time; [[Space Invaders]]. Space Invaders insured the company's success. In 1980 Midway licensed Pac-Man and Ms-Pac Man in 1982. Also in 1982, Bally Midway merged Midway with his pinball division, making the company name, '''Bally Midway''' '''Mfg. Co.'''. Three of Midway's games were released that year also, the popular one being [[Satan's Hollow]]. During the 1970's-1980's, Midway was the most popular game-developer and manufacturer in the United States. In 1988, Bally Midway was bought by [[WMS Industries|Williams Electronic Games]], through the holding of WMS. Midway then moved from it's original location in Franklin Park, Illinois to Chicago and WMS re-incorporated Midway as a Delaware corporation. Through this, only 2 original game designers were kept, those being Brian Colin and Jeff Nauman, who both created [[Rampage]]. Then, Bally left the company, and gave the rights of his name on pinball machines to WMS. Under WMS ownership, Midway kept creating arcade games under Bally-Midway and pinball cabinets under Bally. In 1991, Midway absorbed the Williams games division and stopped use of the the name Bally-Midway label. In 1992, Midway had another breakthrough with [[The Addams Family]] pinball machine, with it becoming the best-selling pinball machine of all-time. In 1996, Midway purchased [[Time Warner Interactive Entertainment]], which in itself included [[Atari, Inc]]. Midway also changed their brand from Midway Manufacturing to Midway Games Inc., symbolising their change to video games.<br />