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Classic

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 31, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Galaga and Pac-Man are classics. DigDoug and Pole Position are only slightly more exciting than Tic-Tac-Toe. If you can find it for under $10 it will be worth it.

A great time for the 30+ crowd as well as kids!

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

Talk about nostalgia! This game has it all! The old versions of our favorites, plus new arrangements that are also fun to play! I highly recommend this game to parents who want to get in on the video game action with some old school fun! I can actually PLAY these games...they are a reminder of simpler times.

Great

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 11, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This is a great mix of games and especially great for those who grew up playing the games on the Atari platform.

A great collection though sometimes the emulation is off par

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 29, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This collection consisits of some of my most favorite games of all time. When I was a kid, I used to love Ms. Pac-Man with a passion. Those vibrant colors of the mazes in its attract mode used to dazzle me. These games retain the child in me and I'm almost 27.

Pac-Man is 99% perfect and is great for long-term play, though I've always considered the old 'Return of Arcade' version my most favorite because of its massive reconfiguration options. Ms. Pac-Man falls short when it comes to its sound effects because the sound 'stutters' every half-second, though the play has nothing to do with it.

The Pole-Position games are not even close to the original arcade ports. They have been tinkered with exclusively for the Namco Museum collection. The tone of the traffic lights changing from red to red and finally to green has definetely changed to a more modern one which sounds kind of like a bell in contrast to other ports. A downer, but the games are still worth playing.

Galaxian is near arcade port, except the score is on the right side of the screen. I never really liked the game anyway. Galaga has been 'stretched' partially to fit the screen. Dig dug may not really be letterboxed wholly to fit the screen so it may scroll as you approach the bottom, but there's nothing wrong with that.

Overall this is a great collection for me. I'd choose this over the 50th Anniversary collection for the computer because that's not much better, if at all. But still may not be as good as the PSP version because I don't even have one! But I can do without one. Oh well.

After all, these are the same emulations used since Namco first started their collection on the original Playstation.

12 games for 9 bucks

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 08, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Yep thats right 12 games for 9 Bucks. No kidding. Yeah. But the only reason why i gave it 4 stars is the fact that yeah you get all of those games but you get 2 repeats (galaga, gal Im not saying i dont like the game (considering that i bought it solely for the galaga & ms pac man) but it should be more of a selection than just having all the galaga's Some might disagree with me but oh well. The fact that it has all these old original arcade titles loves it. It would be better with a regular tv rather than a wide screen, as all the games are narrow. Funplay its like being in the arcade all over again, difficulity- that digout game is the only one that i am having trouble with! and graphics (who cares) Your playing your favorite titles which is why you bought it so dont cry for mommy if its not in HD!

For the money you cant go wrong

Good times relived

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 17, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I used to play these games when I was a kid and they're still fun today. However, if you've never played these, you'll probably find them cheesy and the graphics poor.

If you know what Atari is, buy this!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 16, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I've been searching for a gamecube game that is like the old style Atari-Like video games I grew up with and here it is! Plus, when you succeed with a pac-man game (not sure how many levels), you are given a bonus game of Pac Man to try which was a wonderful surprise. The galaxia games are pretty much like I remember. Pole Position is still hard for me to maneuver. Also no directions onscreen so plan on figuring out the game for yourself. I love it because it's simple w/ no frills!

Memories, Memories...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: November 27, 2005
Author: Amazon User

*Memories? What memories? I'm a kid! ^_^*

Yes, my friends, at last Namco releases a compilation that's worth it...maybe. It depends on how you look at it-does it seem fair for Namco to re-release only 12 games? Ones that have already been in other compilations? For younger players, yes. For people who have played other Namco Museums....not so much.

Anyway, this collection features Namco's greatest hits, including the original Pac-Man, Ms. Pac-Man, Galaga, Galaxian, Dig Dug, and Pole Position. Also included are revamped versions of Pac-Man, Galaga, Dig Dug, and Pole Position, including MUCH better graphics, more power-ups, and more variety. And, there are 2 unlockable games, the unfamiliar Pac-Attack and Pac-Mania...you need 20,000 points from Ms. Pac-Man to unlock Pac-Mania, while 40,000 points in Pac-Man unlocks Pac-Attack. What? You haven't heard of half these games? I'll explain each game now.

Pac-Man 8/10
All right, there is a small maze-like place that you can see. There are dots (called Pac-dots) scattered around the maze. There is a yellow ball that starts out near the middle called Pac-Man. You need to move him around, and have him collide with the dots to eat them. Eat all the dots to advance to the next round. Easy, right? No, because there are ghosts to stop Pac-Man! In the middle is a box where 4 ghosts are, and they come out in the beginning and chase Pac-Man around. If you touch a ghost, you lose a life. There are power pellets in each of the four corners of the maze, though. If you eat one, the ghosts turn blue and run away. You can eat them, and the more you eat with one pellet the more points you will get. The ghosts go back to the box to be regenerated. Eventually the power pellet will fade, and the ghosts will be chasing you again. Each round is the exact same maze. Hey, it's the 80's right?

Pac-Man Arrangement 9/10
This game has much better graphics. It's pretty much 3-D sprites, what you'd expect from a GBA. There are some differences, however. This game is really fast, so you'll end up bumping into lots of walls, and even ghosts. There are 22 action packed variety levels, with a mischievous boss at the end! Sometimes where Pac-Man starts out, power-ups await him. They can do lots, such as make Pac-Man faster (yeesh!), give an extra power pellet, and even have him split in two for easier dot collecting. But he's not the only one-ghosts can fuse together with a fifth one! They will have abnormal powers, such as ramming into you, being able to hop across the maze, and even being able to make huge pellets to slow down Pac-Man.

Galaga 8/10
This is just a basic shooter. Enemies are at the top of the screen. You are at the bottom, and with your ship, you can blast enemies. Every second an enemy or two will come down, shooting bullets at you. It will disappear at the bottom of the screen and reappear at the top. Kill all the enemies in the formation to advance to the next level. At the very top of each formation there are formation leaders. They can suck up your ship as a new enemy, so you might want to avoid this. You can actually get a double space fighter like this, but I'm not going to tell you how. Every 3 levels, you will come to a bonus round, where you can kill enemies for loads of points. Each one equals 100 points in it.

Galaga Arrangement 9/10
As always, this revamped thing has plenty better graphics, as well as a 3-D ship that really looks like it's moving, since it tilts side to side. The backrounds are colorful, and are really fit for the spacy atmosphere. There are different formation leaders now, so you can make cool combos with the ship instead of a space fighter! The bonus stages are much harder, since the screen tilts around a lot, making it hard to shoot enemies. But the most dramatic change is that in each level way before the formation starts, the enemies will be in a weird shape, and they'll start dancing around really fast, making a real cool affect. They could go outward in a circle then inward with agility, like an illusion. You might see 4 wavy lines of enemies, and two will be on one side of a dot it's attached to, and 2 will be on the other. As if a spider it will move the "leg enemies" up and down, having them cross their paths. You could even have both for a rad sight, and about 100 more patterns! One other notable difference: try to hit as many enemies as possible, because after the long dance, most will go into formation, but some will escape! To help, in some groupings of the dance they will have bombs. Shoot it a few times, and watch the enemies in that group blast away!

Galaxian 7.5/10
This is your bare bones shooter. Like Galaga, there are enemies at the top. They will come down and shoot projectiles at you, then disappear at the bottom of the screen, reappearing at the top. You can shoot them to kill them. The ones at the top area are worth the most points. If you hit the enemies while they're attacking, they're worth more than when they are in formation. Boss enemies sit at the top. They will occasionally come down, with two minions guarding them. If you kill both guard enemies and the boss while they're attacking, you'll get a jumble of points. And of course, kill them all to advance to the next level.

Dig Dug 8/10
You are Dig Dug, who looks like a Smurf, and you are the middle of dirt. Don't worry, you can see the whole arena. He has a shovel, where he can easily dig through the dirt. Guide him through the dirt area. There are enemies with their own small space in a random place in the dirt. The two enemies are Pooka, the red one, and Fygar, the green one. Fygar can breath fire, so watch out! If you wait too long, the enemies will use their special powers-they can go through the dirt, all the way to where dug up land is, so they can basically transport. But for then they just walk around in their cramped space, going back and forth. You have to go over to them, undigging all dirt in your way, to get to their space. Keep in mind that when you get to their space, the enemies are free to roam around all the dug area that you did. To kill the enemies, you need to latch on to them with your claw thing and *gasp* pump them up three times to pop them! Gruesome, huh? If the event happens that the enemy chases you, dig under a rock, and watch the rock smash the enemy. Drop two rocks to get a vegetable, which gives you bonus. :-)

Dig Dug Arrangement 9/10
The only difference is that you're on an overworld map with at least 100 levels, and the enemies get much harder since there is more variety. Also, there will be bosses occasionally, which are huge versions of Pooka and Fygar. They are fairly easy. Last, there will be massive rocks, and if you dig under them, they will crash all the way to the bottom, hitting enemies in its path.

Pole Position 3/10
Excuse me if I offend, but this is the worst game in the collection for the simple fact that it has no motive to it. A racing game, it's only traditional you start in a racecar. Ever notice how racecar is spelled the same backward...what? Oh yeah, back to this game. You need to qualify for the main race, by completing one lap around a tedious track with no good features. It's just a round track. To qualify, you need to finish the lap in the given time. The time it takes you will determine which place you get it the main race, the Grand Prix. So after qualifying you start out with all the other cars. When the light turns green, go. You are given a little amount of time to complete 3 laps. The track is just the same tedious track, except with one or two puddles to slow you down. Even worse, the turning is awkward, and so all the cars are cluttered together, and you will often crash into a car, or a sign, which takes 5 seconds away. When you finally finish one lap, you'll get 30 second of extended play, which isn't enough. I can't finish even two laps, it's that hard.

Pole Position II 2/10
Who thought they could get away with this? This is exactly the same as the regular, except with a roller coaster in the backround. And when you're set to low gear, as soon as you start out in low gear you'll hear this screech for a few seconds, and I've almost gone deaf, it's that screechy. One more difference is that you can pick your track out of four, which doesn't help much since the tracks still don't have enough variety. It might be my CD, but I'm experiencing a bug where I can't even qualify for the main race on some tracks even if I beat the time. The same glitch happens to me in the first one.

Pac-Mania-Locked 9/10
This is Pac-Man, except he's in full 3-D! When you move around, you'll only see like 1/5 of the maze at a time. But that's fine, as long as Pac-Man can JUMP! Yes, he can jump over ghosts. But don't take too long, or the jumping power will begin to fade. Explore 12 unique levels, which start to get longer and harder. Want an example? In some levels a green ghost will appear. Yup, there are more than 4 ghosts now. Anyway when you jump, the green ghost jumps, regardless of where you and he are, so jumping over him will take lots of skill.

Pac-Attack-Locked 9/10
You play this like Tetris. Just make lines. Some red ghosts will appear in some blocks, and if you set them somewhere in a gap, you can't make a line with them. To help, stack some ghost up while trying to make some line with regular blocks. Pac-Man will come down every few turns, and eat all of them that he can reach, and then he'll fade away. If some are trapped in blocks, you'll have to make a line above it to get to that ghost. Pac-Man might face the way you don't want, so just put a block in front of the path you don't want him to take, then he'll go the opposite direction. Each ghost he eats builds into a meter. Fill that meter, and a fairy will come to the rescue. She will clear almost every line and ghost along until it's down to 1 or 2 stacks.

WOW COOL EXTRAS 10/10
And as if this wasn't enough, you also get to tinker around with the settings. If you go to the settings option in each game, you can make the game easier or harder than it was in the arcades. You can make more/less lives, infinite continues, etc for people who are up for a challenge, or for people who need to adpat more to the game before playing it retro style..

Closing
In closing I strongly suggest you buy this game, either to relive the memories or just to experience it all over again...on the other hand, you could wait until Namco will make an ultimate collection...though it's doubtful. But save your money on this, since this is one of Namco's greatest museums. True, it doesn't have a virtual arcade, but the awesome pick in games makes up for it.

Love the classics

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: November 23, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game is simply amazing and flawless! There are some unlockables, and all the games have multi-player action! It's seriouly like a classic arcade, rooled into a updated game system. Before I go on with the posative, I have one just one, the entire reveiw, I promis this is the only negative...

In some of the pac-man games, if you play on a small TV (like me) then it's hard to see everything in general.

*gasping for air* I'm so glad that negative part is over! Back to the posative!

With three totally new games: Pac-man Arrangement, Galaga Arrangement, and Dig-Dug arrangement. These are all great games, that are so much fun!

In addition, there are two games you can unlock:

1. Pac-attack - Unlock by scoring 20,000 points or more in Pac-man

2. Pac-Mania - Unlock by scoring 15,000 points or more in Ms. Pac-Man

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You can never have enough nostalgia

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: June 14, 2005
Author: Amazon User

If you have a GBA and a Gamecube, get the Gamecube version. It has more games. Anyway, this game is so cool. It trasports you back to the good ol' days when Namco was a hotshot. The collection starts you off with these games:
Pac Man
Galaga
Dig Dug
Pole Postion
Galaxian
Ms. Pac Man

That right there is worth your money. But Namco also put in updated versions of Pac Man, Galaga, Dig Dug and Pole Postion!! That's right, if you get bored with the oldies, try out the newies. They show better power-ups and graphics.

The collection doesn't stop there. If you are a Pac Attack fan (which I am), then you will play Pac Man for a while. You have to score a whopping 20,000 points to unlock Pac Attack. But wait, there is even a secret for Ms. Pac Man! Score 15,000 points and get Pac Mania, one of the best games in the series. So here's the entire collection with brief decriptions:

Pac Man (Eat ghosts, chomp dots)
Pac Man Arrangement
Galaga (Shoot the Galagas)
Galaga Arrangement
Dig Dug (Pump the enemies along the way as you dig through dirt)
Dig Dug Arrangement
Pole Postion (Qualify for a main race and finish laps)
Pole Postion 2
Galaxian (Just like Galaga, shoot Galaxians)
Ms. Pac Man (Same as Pac Man)
Pac Attack (Locked, is sort of like Tetris)
Pac Mania (Locked, Pac Man only 3D, and he can jump!)

There you go, 12 unforgettable classics packed into one disc!

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