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Midnight Madness Beta Signup

March 14, 1999: Beta Bites let me know that Microsoft is having a Midnight Madness Beta sign-up, where 200 lucky gamers will be randomly selected on March 17th, St.

Midnight Madness Beta Signup hits the March 1999 news desk on March 14, 1999. Beta Bites let me know that Microsoft is having a Midnight Madness Beta sign-up, where 200 lucky gamers will be randomly selected on March 17th, St.

Patrick's Day. Midtown Madness is the first vehicular racing game to render a virtual Chicago, including over a 100km of roads, city landmarks, pedestrians, changing weather conditions, a live police system, dozens of shortcuts and hundreds of interactive objects, from working bridges to parking meters. It is not the loudest kind of gaming news, but the business and community machinery matters. Games do not appear out of thin air.