Midway Games

Midway Games was a Chicago, Illinois-based game developer and publisher which started in 1958 as Midway Manufacturing Company, creating mechanical arcade games. It was bought by Bally, a manufacturer of slot machines, in 1969. After developing a partnership with Japanese video game publisher Taito, the company started creating video games. In 1988, the company was bought by Williams and, without leaving the arcade and pinball business, started developing video games for home consoles. It eventually filed for bankruptcy and was liquidated in 2009.

Among many other titles, Midway was responsible for creating the official ports of Doom to the Sony PlayStation and Nintendo 64 platforms. They managed to give the PlayStation Doom and Final Doom ports their own identity, though the use of a completely different soundtrack composed by Aubrey Hodges and a darker, gloomier atmosphere accented by sharp colored lighting. The Nintendo 64 port was even more ambitious, with all-new textures, redesigned sprites in a different artistic style, and completely new levels proposed as a sequel and conclusion to the events of Doom, Doom II, and Final Doom.