Play Williams Arcade's Greatest Hits (europe) Online

Williams Arcade's Greatest Hits came out for the Super Nintendo in 1996, published by Williams Entertainment Inc. It was a solid collection of six older arcade games, a common type of release for that period on the SNES. These were all titles originally made by Williams, a company many people knew more for their pinball tables than for video games.

You control different characters or vehicles across the included games. In Robotron: 2084, you move a character with one joystick while firing in any direction with the other, trying to rescue survivors from endless waves of enemies. Defender has you piloting a small ship back and forth across a scrolling landscape, rescuing humans from abduction while managing a limited supply of smart bombs. Joust is a two-player game where you flap your ostrich's wings to gain height and knock opponents off their birds by hitting them from above. The pacing is relentless and the difficulty is steep, a direct carryover from the arcade originals. Playing it feels like a direct, sometimes brutal, conversation with gaming's past.