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Return of the Arcade: 20th Anniversary Edition with Ms. Pac-man

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 14, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Games are as advertized - this is a hard to find game - a joystick is needed to obtain the best out of the games..alot of fun.

Very Disappointing

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 18
Date: November 08, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Purchased this along with Logitech's WingMan Force 3D joystick and it was a waste of a lot of money. The range of motion required to make the basic up, down, left, right moves just isn't there. Its either the software, the joystick or both. I would have been better off trying to buy one of the old arcade machines and would have at least been able to play it.

Don't waste your money!!

Huge disappointment!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 17
Date: December 27, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game based on the other three reviews (all positive), but couldn't be more disappointed. The video quality is poor (circa 1970) and there are better games available for FREE downloaded off the Internet than what this disc provides. My son (who is a very bright 6 year old) was bored after a short time, and so I played each game to see for myself. I can understand his boredom: These games, although they may have some "retro" sentimental value to adults, are not interesting to kids because the graphics and sound are primitive-looking and do not even come close to comparing to other games that are currently available to kids and are in his library already. He is accustomed to newer software with better "bells and whistles" rather than these old-fashioned games. ...-- save your money!!! It is better spent elsewhere for the value you would receive from this ...

Great Fun

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 10 / 71
Date: November 10, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Some arcade games became monotonous after a while. These never did.

Arcade started from the classic games.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: February 12, 2002
Author: Amazon User

If you grew up in the 80's you can't go wrong with these games. These games were the best and highly rated back then. I remember going to the arcade centers waiting in line for a turn to play theses games. The classic arcade games are the original start of arcade games trend,You have to respect that, if it wasn't for theses original games that started the arcade trend where would we be. I only play the classic games and nothing else. I have nothing against the new age games today,even though they are more enchanced, but there are just to many buttons and gadget you have to use to play the game, I can't keep up with
all those different buttons to play. I just like it simple. Its so much fun. I love the classic games and finally found them on a cd rom.

Watch out on Win 98 w/DirectX 8.1

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 9
Date: February 18, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Even though I have 256 Mb, I have found this one to be quite flaky under Windows 98. It randomly fails to load games properly under DirectX 8.1, which then procede to eat system resources until the system crashes. MS has been unable to resolve the problem (and, the first time, the registration # it gave me was faulty and they wanted me to pay for support, had to re-install and get a new # before I could even get them to acknowledge my existance w/o a credit card...). Even when the games do work, they are generally poor adaptations. For much better emulation, get MAME and download the original game ROMS at www.mame.dk. Sorry for the sour grapes. Expect that those running later versions of Windows or earlier versions of DirectX might be in better shape.

RETRO GAMEING

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: January 25, 2002
Author: Amazon User

REMEMBER THE TIMES...WHEN PAC-MAN WAS KING? BACK IN THE 80'S THIS GAME IN THE ARCADE WAS ONE TO WAIT FOR. WHETHER YOU KNEW YOUR PATTERNS OR YOU JUST HUNG IN THERE THIS GAME KEPT YOU ON YOUR TOES! DO IT AGAIN AND BUY THIS TIMELESS CLASSIC.

P.S. NO WAITING

Great Fun1

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: January 03, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I've really enjoyed playing most of the games in this package. There are just two things which diminish my enjoyment. One is that I have to reset my "Settings" mode on my computer to a 256 bit color setting. Otherwise the games don't work properly. The second is that I need to purchase a joystick because I just can't get the Pac Man and Mrs. Pac Man to work with just the arrow direction keys - I'm not too adept with those keys when speed is required. I love Pole Position. Have lots of fun times with that one. I have tried Dig game, but again I think a joystick will make it easier. Good buy. Lots of hours of FUN!

BEWARE! Does not work on Windows 2000

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: January 01, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I just bought this as a present, but, although it is made by Microsoft, unbelievably it does not run on Windows 2000! So the person who received it has not been able to try it out. How could Microsoft possibly do that? Also, a more prominent warning to that effect should be placed on the Amazon add.

That being said, it is probably very fun, but I have to put 1 star -- because of what Microsoft has done here, we have not been able to try it out!

arcade on your p.c.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: June 03, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Excellant game!!!!!!!If you were a teen in the 80's this is for you its like going to the arcades of years back.It's got pac-man and ms. pac-man ,galaxian ITs great!!!!!!!!

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