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good but lacking........

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 11 / 15
Date: September 04, 2000
Author: Amazon User

i was super excited by this collection of games, and i really wish i could give it 4 or 5 stars, but i can't. the two pac mans are great, but the controls are maddeningly difficult. Glaga and Glaxian are basically similar and the controls are ridiculous.....simply innefficient. DIG DUG and Pole Position are fine, but again the controls leave much to be desired, creating a level of difficulty that is simply too high to provide a fun challenge. All of that aside, these games are pretty cool, and pretty addictive. For FUN, i give it 5 STARS, for CONTROLS, i only give 3 STARS. figure out that average, and then go buy the game anyway..... it's a lot of fun and nostalgia.

Retro-Arcade. Blast to the past!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 93 / 94
Date: November 30, 1999
Author: Amazon User

Namco Museum 64 is a great game for retro-arcade lovers. Namco Museum 64 features 6 games: Pac-Man, Ms-Pac-Man, Dig Dug, Galaxian, Galaga, and Pole Position. These games all came out in the arcades in the 1980's. I remember pumping quarters into these games when they first came out in the arcades. All of the games are pretty straight forward. Pac-Man and Ms. Pac-Man focuses on a yellow circle (with a mouth) that eats pellets. 4 different colored ghosts chase after you in a maze. Galaga and Galaxian are basically Space Invader clones. You are a ship shooting invaders down. Dig Dug is sort of a Mr. Do clone. Your a person in a garden destroying monsters with a pump. Finally, Pole Position is a F-1 racer. Your car does a qualifying race, then onto the main race.

Overall, this a great game for me! For today's generation, the graphics may be a little lame, but for the retro lovers, this will be a blast.

Olga P. Buenaventura

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 21 / 25
Date: November 26, 1999
Author: Amazon User

If you like arcade classics like Ms. Pacman, Galaga, Dig-dug, etc., this game is worth purchasing. Not only did it bring hours of good old simple arcade fun, but it also brought back feelings of nostalgia.

Sweatin' to the Oldies.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 20 / 24
Date: November 29, 1999
Author: Amazon User

Fans of the old arcade games will love playing the original arcade versions at home, Pac Man, Ms. Pac Man, Galaga, Pole Position, Dig Dug and more. Very fun and popular with people of all gaming skills.

Video Games Reviewer

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 7 / 8
Date: November 09, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Namco Museum for the N64 is a really good retro game. Individuals 25 years and older will remember these games well. For those individuals who are younger than 25, Namco Museum provides an opportunity to play some of the classic videogames that started the whole video game frenzy. Namco Museum consists of 5 games. Ms. Pac-Man, Galaxian, Galaga, Dig Dug, and Pole Position. Ms. Pac-Man everyone knows about. Galaxian and Galaga are Space Invader type games, Dig Dug is a unique digging and destroying enemies game, and Pole Position is the classic arcade steering wheel racing game. All games are great fun for a quick pick up and play. The lack of a battery save feature for high scores (reasoning for 4 stars) is sort of a disappointment, but writing scores down is not that tedious of an ordeal. Overall, Namco Museum is a great port of the arcade classics for a quick 5 minute game between class, meetings, or a lunch break, and is a good addition to everyone's N64 library.

I get to keep my quarters!!!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: June 22, 2001
Author: Amazon User

My youngest son insisted to him mom that this should be my gift for father's day. Being a sound and worldly adult I said I didn't care. Now that I have it I just smile and grin. I don't think I can count the number of quarters I spent on these games in my youth, in fact a coffie shop near the house has MS Pacman and Galaga and I spent quarters there with both of my boys. The games themselves are a joy but there are several weaknesses. The contols for the PACMAN games respond slowly (or maybe I'm just slower) and standard N64 Controler isn't easy for POLE POSITION. On the whole this is a great set of games invoking a great set of memories and most important fun I can have with my sons.

Memory Lane

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: April 18, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I have this game and myself, my husband and our 10 year old daughter love to play this game. Of course, my daughter is very good at it. She plays against my husband and they try to beat each other's score. Its a great family game nite game.

Not Exactly right, but pretty close

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 25 / 31
Date: December 27, 1999
Author: Amazon User

This is not an exact replica of the games. A disapointment, when you consider that namco has the rights to the "roms." The galaga game has the sound effects messed up on the challenge stages, which doesn't affect playability.

The real irritation, however, is the Dig Dug game. They programmed it in a way that it doesn't fit on the TV screen. That's right, it has one of those annoying scrolling screens. It's unplayable for someone like me that played the real arcade game.

The pac-man games are perfect replicas, however, the original pac-man screen on my TV was very difficult to see. The weakness of the little nintendo joystick is painfully apparent here. The difficulty of a game should be it's premise, not poor controls.

But this game is fun, if for no other reason than to use your nintendo and play the games on your TV.

Namco's Museum 64

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 20 / 35
Date: December 10, 1999
Author: Amazon User

I can sum up my feelings about this game using one word, "finally". For years me and some people I know have been waiting for these games to be rereleased. Yes I know some of them have already been rereleased. All I know is that when, for example, Galaga was rereleased it was for the non-color Gameboy only, I think. That was a real let down for big time Galaga fans because the Gameboy, although a fun system, is not good for Galaga. Galaga needs a big screen. For a person who is not a Galaga fan, that might be kind of hard to understand, with the poor graphics and all. Galaga was a very big game. So big in fact that many arcades still contain a Galaga in the corner, almost 20 years after the original release. In closing, I will say that for retro game lovers it's a must have. For non-retro game people, it might just be wortha look, you might be suprised when you try this fine collection of games.

What took them so long!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 10 / 13
Date: January 15, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I have been a Galaga and Pac-Man fan for many years and have been waiting for them (especially Galaga) to come out for forever. This is a great game and I highly recommend it.

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