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Rent This Game Before You Buy it. I Wish I had.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 9 / 10
Date: January 27, 2008
Author: Amazon User

The old games included, Galaxian, Xevious, etc, are indeed copies of the classic games. But the game screens are surrounded by "special remix borders", in other words, the game screens are reduced in size. The old games have not been modified to take advantage of the Wii controller. The new "remixed" games do not utilize the Wii controller well and lack the fun of even the basic Wii Sports game that came with your console. Do NOT buy the game unless you rent it first.

Mixed Review

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 13 / 20
Date: November 24, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Liked this game but it didn't hold my kids attention for very long. The adults are still playing it.. How do I get them to go home? LOL

Mostly useless/boring games

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: May 16, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Now to get an idea of my gaming style, I grew up on the Atari 2600 & NES & am a casual gamer. I enjoy arcade games the best & on the wii sport games as well. I always hated Pac Man, loved Galaga & enjoyed pole position, spy hunter, etc.

Rally-X Remix - can be played with nunchuck or like wii wheel (although turning like that is annoying/hard) driving in a maze is annoying & gameplay is slow/boring, the map on bottom right tells you where bad guys are & flags you have to pick up. Boring & I hated it.

Pac-Moto - Your on a checkers?chess? board & you have to push your opponents off the board. After a certain time meteors come down & take out blocks of the board making it harder since your opponents or you can fall in them. Boring.

Pac'N'Roll - Pac Man in a 3D world. Very easy at first (not many ghosts & you are 3x faster then them), but I enjoyed the graphics. I enjoyed it as a mini golf style game at first. But I wouldn't buy this title for this game. Good for a rental.

Galaga Remix - 3D space world with tube for Pac Man to travel & you use unlimited fire power to destroy anything before they can shoot defenseless Pac Man. He can only jump out of the way. There are MANY ships out to get him & also (at least at first) stationary bad guys blocking the way as well. Your hand may get tired hitting the A or B button to fire, luckily you can also hold down the button to shoot fast/many lasers? at one time though runs out after a few seconds so you still have to keep hitting the button. The ships are all fast & furious & the screen lets you know which one will fire to you can hit him first, you can also shoot a laser to kill it before hits Pac Man. My favorite of all of these by a landslide. This game makes it worth buying.

GatorPanic Remix - it's wack a mole with gators. Use controller 4 directions to point at 4 diff gator openings & flick your wii remote to hit them. *Yawn* Boring after 3 seconds. The gators don't even do anything to make you want to get them, no spice/interest, boring.

Carnival Arcade - Where you play all the old games in it's original 8-bit AMAZING (lol) form. You can use the nunchuck only, remote D-pad only, or classic controller (Sometimes I used nunckuck controller one hand & used the buttons on the remote to fire.) You can do 1 or 2 player, you can zoom in/out the screen a little in the options & change how many lives/when get extra life, etc. though pre-determined choices. The screen is only half since it's laid out in it's original long way presentation from the 1980s & there have been NO changes whatsoever since it was in the arcades in that time.
Pac & Pal - looks like the original old Pac Man, you flip cards over.
CutieQW - Never heard of it before, I wonder why. lol Retro pinball, makes the original NES pinball (Which I liked back then) look gorgeous, I didn't even want to play this one time it looks so bad.
Galaxian - one of the original space shooter games, but you can't even move your ship other then side to side & the lasers move VERY slow, slower then I remember & feels like Atari 2600 graphics, boring.
Xevious - you can move your ship up/down/diagonally, etc, reminds me of NES 1941, but the music is almost non-existent & like nails on a chalkboard with the ground looking like the original Zelda game. I played a couple of minutes & then purposely killed myself.
Super Pac Man - the usual, get the fruit, get power-ups, get keys, open boxes, original Pac Man graphics.
Mappy - Never heard of it before, I wonder why. lol Cat & Mouse game, a wannabe Donkey Kong/Burgertime? Rip off, boring, limited movements, collect things & jump up on trampoline with almost Atari 2600 graphics.
Gaplus AKA Galaga 3- Never heard of it before, good enough NES graphics. You can move all around, better graphics then Galaxian, bullets are fast, and the aliens are 3x faster then you & crazy patterns. Fun to play.
Dig Dug - everyone's favorite under the ground game it's it's boring, slow 8 bit look & feel. lol Oohh now you can toss your Atari 2600! lol
Pac Mania - 1987 graphics 3D Pac Man on a Lego board, usual goals.

Since I only liked the Galaga games on here, this is not worth it to me for more then $10-15. This may be worth a rental for others. Check youtube & other sites for reviews or video reviews/game play video & wikipedia for screenshots as well.

Pac Nut

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 07, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I bought this because I really wanted Super-PacMan. I have found myself playing all parts of the game. I also have always liked playing Dig Dug which this game has as well. Having Fun in San Diego.

Only buy this if you really like Pac Man and Namco's classics

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 04, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I've been following the Namco Museum series for quite a while and I bought Namco Museum on the Gamecube, which was very fun. This game beats the Gamecube version by leaps and bounds, because it takes advantage of the Wii controls in the "remix" games and has more classic games too.

Let me say, however, that if you don't like Pac-Man, or you don't like classic Namco games like Xevious and Dig Dug, then you won't like this game. Just don't bother, or rent it for the few games you will like. That being said, if you do like these things (like I do), then you will love this! The rundown:

Gator Panic Remix: You might have played Gator Panic for tickets at Chuck-e-Cheese's, it's a mallet game where you whomp gators coming out of a cave. This is the first time I've seen it in virtual form and it really works well on the Wii because you actually use the Wii-mote to whomp the gators. I think this one would be the most approachable for little kids.

Rally-X: This is probably the most boring of the games though if you like maze games like Pac-Man, you might enjoy this. You run around on a go-kart through a maze collecting flags and you have to avoid enemies that are chasing you. The only problem is that controlling your kart is a bit dodgy.

Pac'N Roll: This is a really great adventure/puzzle game where you roll Pac-Man through a 3D world picking up energy pellets and occasionally, power pellets that let you eat ghosts. You have a couple abilities to pick up and each level is really long. This is easily the best single-player game in the set.

Galaga Remix: This is a lot like the shooting game in Wii Play or old Zapper games, you use the Wii-mote to shoot at space-bugs while Pac-Man rolls through a space tube, and occasionally you have to shoot down missiles or shoot enemies blocking his path. Perfect "quick-fire" fun.

Pac-Motos: This is a classic "push your enemies off the sky-platform" type of game; as it progresses you have a lot of different enemies to go against and at the end of each world there is a boss stage (these are tough). Good if you like action puzzles.

That's all the games from a single player perspective. I should also mention that games like Gator Panic, Galaga, and Pac-Motos offer multiplayer modes, so they can be a lot of fun with friends. Bottom line is, if you like Namco games and you like Pac-Man, you won't regret buying this.

Not as good as Atari!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 17, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I was disappointed with the game... I was a huge Pac-mac fan in the 80's with the old Atari.... this was way more complex, but I truely was hoping to just have a version of the old PAC-MAN we al loved so much.

Beware: Carefully read the reviews to see what games are ACTUALLY included

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 23, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I wish I would have read amazon.com's reviews of this game before purchasing it. I bought this game because my wife is a pac-man and ms.pac-man nut. Last night we put it in the machine and, Surprise!!! No classic pac-man. It's absolutely lousy.

The 3-D games are interesting, but definitely not our thing. As others have said, the graphics are "classic". And the included games are pretty true to their original form. But, as the title says, read some of the other reviews for a list of what games are actually included... classic pac-man is not one of them.

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