Midway to Present at RBC Capital Markets' North American Technology Conference; Presentation to Be Webcast Live on the Internet

Business Wire, July 30, 2004

CHICAGO -- Midway Games Inc. (NYSE: MWY) announced today that its president and chief executive officer, David F. Zucker, will participate in an audio webcast in conjunction with the Company's presentation at RBC Capital Markets' North American Technology Conference, to be held at the Ritz Carlton in Half Moon Bay, California on Tuesday, August 3, 2004 at 1:00 p.m. EDT.

To listen to the webcast, please visit www.investor.midway.com. Please allow 15 minutes to register and download and install any necessary software. After the conference, a webcast replay of the presentation will be accessible for twelve months at www.investor.midway.com.

Midway Games Inc. is a leading developer and publisher of interactive entertainment software. Midway video games are available for play on all major videogame platforms including the PlayStation(R)2 computer entertainment system, Xbox(TM) video game system from Microsoft, and Nintendo GameCube(TM) and Game Boy(R) Advance.

The presentation referenced by this press release may contain forward-looking statements concerning future business conditions and the outlook for Midway Games Inc. (the "Company") based on currently available information that involve risks and uncertainties. The Company's actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in the forward-looking statements as a result of these risks and uncertainties, including, without limitation, the financial strength of the interactive entertainment industry, dependence on new product introductions and the ability to maintain the scheduling of such introductions, technological changes, dependence on major platform manufacturers and other risks more fully described under "Item 1. Business - Risk Factors" in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2003, and in the more recent filings made by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission.