Midway Games is an American video game publisher founded in 1958 as an independent manufacturer of amusement equipment, before being bought out by Bally in 1969. Their breakthrough success came in 1978, with the licensing and distribution of the arcade game Space Invaders in America, followed by the hit US version of Namco's Pac-Man (1980). Ms Pac-Man (1981) followed, becoming the most successful arcade game ever.

The Bally/Midway division of Bally was purchased in 1988 by the arcade and pinball game company Williams Electronics Games, who later went on to buy Time-Warner Interactive, which included Atari Games, part of the former giant Atari Inc. In 1998, Midway was sold by WMS to its shareholders, making Midway an independent company for the first time in almost 30 years, with Midway keeping Atari Games as a wholly owned subsidiary as part of this spinoff, renaming it Midway Games West.