Namco Museum
by Namco
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Video Game Reviews of Namco Museum
Customer Review: I LOVE THIS GAME!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
This is game is so cool! Anyone who is old enough to remember going to the arcade in the 80's will absolutely love this game! Each of the five games on this cartridge (Ms. Pac Man, Pole Position, Dig Dug, Galaga, and Galaxian) looks and sounds just like the old arcade games, and far, far better than your old Atari 2600 ever did! I highly recommend this game!Customer Review: Worth the $$$...
Summary: 3 Stars
Namco's reputation for developing great and influential games is deserved, but some older games have survived the passage of time better than others. The evolutionary dead ends -- fantastic ideas that simply didn't influence successive generations of games in obvious ways (Joust, Warlords, Missile Command, Marble Madness) -- are the really lively part of classic video gaming. Namco's blessing and curse is that it successfully predicted (or perhaps determined?) the future path of video gaming. This collection is hurt by both that and the stinginess reflected in the short game list.To address the first: Pole Position is included on release after release of NamcoMuseum. It's a racing game, very modern by classic standards, that fails to be fun. Why? It was a good game -- so influential that almost any sixteen-bit-and-earlier racing game was its child (this includes Sega's great Virtua Racing series). Unfortunately, the games that follow in its footsteps outdo it by miles. Therefore, nostalgia is the only real reason to play it.
The other games make out better: Ms. Pac-Man is a blast, even though the whole franchise is overrated and overexposed; Dig-Dug is the gem of this collection, providing plenty of bizarro rock-dropping, air-pumping, dig-dugging action among the pookas and fygar; and Galaga and its (surprisingly fun) forbear Galaxian round out the shooter niche nicely, though, again, they inspired so many copycats (after copying Space Invaders first) that they feel rather diluted.
Why only three stars? Well, to get to the second point, there's only five games! Even Konami, whose classic arcade games are criminally underrated and who can't have expected decent sales, managed to get six games on their GBA cart. I refuse to believe that any of these ports, no matter how accurate, took up very much space. Xevious, Mappy, Toy Pop, Bosconian, even RallyX (all but the first evolutionary dead-ends)... at least a couple of these could and should have been shoehorned onto the cartridge somehow. There's also no museum at all (not even release dates), but that's expected on the GBA.
All in all, the ports are faithful (though turning corners in Ms. Pac-Man and Dig-Dug is slower than I remember), the games are fun, and, most importantly, it's cheap. If you want a more fulfilling classic experience, though, look to Konami Arcade Advanced and Activision Anthology.
Customer Review: Namco Museum
Summary: 5 Stars
This game is tons of fun! I recenly received it for christmas and have played it constantly since. It includes a racing game dig dug and ms pacman as well as galaga. They are all a lot of fun! I would Suggest purchasing this game for anyone who enjoys vintage games.Customer Review: Good if you keep your expectations in check
Summary: 3 Stars
For this price it's a great throw away cartridge for old guys like myself ;-) Funny thing is, my 5 year old plays it more than I do.My only complaint it that the GB SP screen is WAY too small for these games. They were designed to be played on really large screens and it shows.
Customer Review: Atari 2600 portable???
Summary: 4 Stars
I buyed this game mainly to have Ms. Pac-man and Dig Dug at the palm of my hand (by the way, its a kind of relief that there are adults like me that like to play those classic games AND have their GBA, because sometimes i feel weird playing this thing at the lunch time in the work :D )The Ms. PAc-Man and Dig dug are beautiful translation from the originals (and they are as adictive too), the Gala???? games are not my favorites, i prefer the Space Invaders (and if it's the Space Invaders from the Atari, much better!) but they are fun to play and adictives nonetheless, the Pole Position is not so good, is hard to play and there are a lot of games better than this one, but is a nice addition.
The only (and fatal, i may add) flaw of this collection is the absence of batery backup to save the scores!, i don't understand this, because the goal of all of the games from the golden era of the videogames, is to make as much points as possible (and challenge your friends that they try to erase your record), but this is a great game for the olders like me and the nostalgia of those games are undennyable.