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The game's streak in the top 20 held through November, but ended with a fall from the charts in December. It rose to 10th place the following month, and continued to chart in the top 10 through August, peaking at #5. In the United States, Return of Arcade debuted in position 16 on PC Data's computer game sales rankings for April 1996.

Microsoft Arcade was named the best computer arcade game of 1993 by Computer Games Strategy Plus. Despite finding that the games were "made obsolete by technology", it predicted that Arcade would be very successful because of nostalgia, and wished that Microsoft would have updated the games with modern graphics and gameplay. The magazine liked Battlezone the most out of the five games in Microsoft Arcade, but stated that "it's been done better since" by games like Spectre. It favorably cited the many hints and strategies included in WinHelp files for the games, and the boss key. Pac-Man) all these games are sort of past their sell-by date, and you have an unmitigated disaster, callously cashing in on people's misremembered childhood memories." Reception Ĭomputer Gaming World in 1993 stated that Microsoft Arcade 's adaptation of the five games was "nearly flawless". Next Generation reviewed the PC version of the game, rating it one star out of five, and stated that "(with the exception of Mrs. This game will not work on 64-bit versions of Windows.

Officially, both of these follow-ups required Windows 95 or later, though the demo for Return of Arcade is a 16-bit program that requires only WinG to run in Windows 3.1. The second follow-up, released in 1998, was called Microsoft Revenge of Arcade and contained: This updated package was called Microsoft Return of Arcade: Anniversary Edition. None of the other games from Revenge of Arcade were included. Pac-Man (as presented in Revenge of Arcade) to the roster of games. In 2000, to celebrate Pac-Man 's 20th anniversary, Microsoft re-released Return of Arcade and added Ms. The compilation sold 335,176 copies in 1996 making it the 8th best-selling PC game that year. The first was Microsoft Return of Arcade, released in April 1996. Two follow up versions were released, including the arcade games from Namco. It contained versions of the following arcade games by Atari: The first compilation was released in 1993 on a single 1.44MB floppy for both Microsoft Windows 3.1 and the Apple Macintosh.