Midway Sports

Background : The sport's label's origins go back to the early 90s when Tradewest got its own sports division. The sports label was briefly known as "W-Sports" in 1994 after Williams acquired the company, before retired quickly in 1995. The idea of a sports label was revived in the 2000s. Midway Sports was a sports video game brand of Midway Games. In 2005 onward, future sports games were just released under the regular Midway brand.

Tradewest Sports
(1992-1994)

Logo : On a blue tinted repeating background sketches of the Leland logo, we see the red italicized words "TRADEWEST". Below it is "SPORTS" in light blue with a darker outline, with the "O" being replaced by a blue circle with a light blue star.

Variants : FX/SFX : None.
 * An earlier version has the repeating background sketches of the old Leland Corporation logo, and "PRESENTS" is shown below.
 * On Super Off Road: The Baja, the Leland Interactive Media logo is shown below.

Music/Sounds : None or the opening theme of the game.

Availability : Seen on Tradewest's sports titles for the SNES and Sega Genesis, like Pro Quarterback (debut, had the early version), Super Off Road: The Baja and Troy Aikman's Pro Football (the Genesis version has the Williams Entertainment logo instead).

Editor's Note : None.

Midway Sports
(2002-2005)

Nicknames : "The Comets" "Midway Flame Comets"

Logo : On a black background, many flame-like comets (possibly representing Midway's "On Fire" thing) fly away from us while doing loops, twists, and zigzags. They then spin around to form the Midway logo (the one with the red arched "M", but refined in 3D with a metal outline) surrounded by a white-outlined black-colored parallelogram with the sides of it lumped by the arch with the "Midway" text on the top left of it and a small part of the parallelogram with the text "SPORTS" in a Spider-Man movie-like font underneath. When the logo appears from the flame comets, a millisecond later, we see another flame comet fly past us underneath the logo revealing the words "IGNITE YOUR GAME", which zoom out into position one-by-one as the logo shines for a while until the whole thing cuts to black.

Trivia : The words "IGNITE YOUR GAME" is the slogan for the brand.

Variants : FX/SFX : Nearly all the animation in the logo.
 * On MLB SlugFest 20-03, the logo is distorted.
 * On GBA games like MLB SlugFest 20-04, the logo is still and is either on a white or black background.

Music/Sounds : A series of wooshes as the comets fly, a bass blast when the logo is formed, and then one more wish sound.

Availability : Seen on all Midway Sports titles from the period on the PlayStation 2, Xbox, and GameCube. Try to look on cases with the Midway Sports logo on the bottom right of the case.

Editor's Note : None.