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Namco Museum 50th Anniversary

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Features
  • Pac-Man - The most popular arcade game of all time

  • Ms. Pac-Man - Explore, collect, and chomp your way through different mazes as Pac-Man's female counterpart

  • Galaga - Fend off frantic swarms of bee-like aliens, while avoiding enemies' powerful tractor beams

  • Dig Dug - Tunnel your way underground and use your pump to blow up attacking enemies

  • Galaxian - Destroy flying aliens as they move in from formation to attack you


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Namco's Museum 50th Anniversary Collection compiles some of the classic Namco arcade games that defined gaming in the 1980s. Go back in time and play classics like Pac-Man, Galaga, Dig Dug, and Pole Position. The new retro menu Interface allows players to explore a virtual arcade hall where each of the game's classics will be standing in its original arcade form. The only difference is, this time you don't need a pocket full of quarters! Pole Position - The milestone in racing games Pole Position II - Sequel to the original, with 4 real racetracks - Fuji, Test, Suzuka, and Seaside Rolling Thunder - Become secret agent Albatross and rescue Lelia Blitz from the evil Geldra Bosconian - Survive against an army of space stations, while avoiding asteroids and other obstacles Rally X - Players drive around a maze while avoiding chasing cars, laying smoke screens, and collecting flags Dragon Spirit - Control a powerful dragon through the air, harness spells, drop bombs and breath fire at enemies Sky Kid - Control a bi-plane and avoid enemy planes using evasive loops, while dropping bombs & shooting down other planes Xevious - Use a heavily armed fighter plane to destroy enemies and targets, in the air and on the ground Mappy - Control Mappy the police mouse, as he dodges chasing cats to collect valuable items


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Product Weight:0.15 pounds
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Release Date:August 08, 2006
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4Worth every penny even if you have the other museum titles.  Oct 16, 2006 By Steven
This is definitely a nostalgia trip.

Even if you have the other museum titles it's worthwhile to pick this one up. Galaga 88 is the reason why you need this game. Galaga 88 is worth the price of admission alone. Also packaged are some other great titles (although almost all of them are already in other museum titles). You get:

Pac-Man

Ms. Pac-Man

Pac-Mania

Galaga

Galaga 88

Galaxian

Dig Dug

Pole Position

Pole Position II

Rolling Thunder

Rally X

Bosconian

Dragon Spirit

Sky Kid

Xevious

Mappy

Most of these games are great. A few of them I don't play very much namely Rally X (just never got into this one I guess) Pac-Mania and Mappy. A lot of people don't like Sky Kid, but I love that game.

If you don't have any of the Namco Museum games then you definitely need to pick this up!

There are a few downsides though. The games are great of coarse and they're all restored to their original goodness, but Namco sure didn't do much to celebrate their 50th anniversary. No history, no interviews, none of that. The only *bonus* you get is you can unlock Pac-Mania and Galaga 88 if you can get a high enough score in Pac-Man and Ms Pac Man and if you get a high score in Galaga. The scores really aren't very hard to reach though so you should unlock them within the first couple hours of play. I really wish that Namco would have done something to make this release special but they didn't. But that's okay, i'm over it :)

In closing *ahem*galaga88*ahem* I would like to say *galaga88* that this game is *galaga88* definitely worth *galaga88* the price *cough*galaga88*cough*

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4Nostalgia In A Box  Sep 16, 2005 By Michael Kerner "Michael Kerner"
I sometimes wonder why when it often comes to video games, many of the younger generation, doesn't simply appreciate the moments when the classics seem to matter. Maybe they haven't witnessed those powers back in the 80's the arcades used to maintain. Nevertheless, Namco was one of the very few coompany that have still been a presence into the video market. While there have been classics like Donkey Kong, Centipede, and the legendary eater Pac Man, those classics keep coming back all over again. A few years ago, Namco made a compilation that was absolutely breathless, and now it has been restored.

Namco Museum 50th Anniversary Arcade collection for the Playstation 2, is a compilation of over a dozen of the most enjoyable classic video arcade games you could ever imagine. The collection maintains it worth in quarters. It includes some of the best from the past including Pac Man, Ms. Pac Man, Dig Dug, the classic aerial shooter Xevious, and the fast and sometimes furious Pole Position II. The menu also hits the mark quite graciously, by bringing some great classic pop songs of the 80's into the mix including She Drives Me Crazy by the Fine Young Cannibals, and the one-hit wonder Dexy's Midnight Runners classic Come On Eileen. The games remain just as infectious and exciting as they were back then, and have been restored and remastered quite beautifully. Although you don't get the specialized arrangement versions of Pac Man and Did Dug like you did from the previous edition, it doesn't take away any of the fun at all.

This nostalgia in a box, the Namco Museum 50th Anniversary Arcade Collection for teh Playstation 2, is a must have for older and younger gamers alike, who just care about the classics, without the expense of gobbling away money to the machines. I really do recommend this classic gameplay for anybody old or young alike.

Graphics: B

Sound: B+

Control: B 1/2-

Fun & Enjoyment: B

Overall: B 1/2+

10 of 11 found the following review helpful:


550th Anniversary?  Sep 02, 2005 By submachine
Namco may be 50 years old, but the games in this collection aren't even half that.

Not that it matters. Pac-Man and Ms.Pac-Man are the two definitive video games of the 80's.

Galaga: the best of the space-invaders type games.

Pole Position I and II: the first modern racing games.

Dig Dug: the only digging tunnels and pumping enemies up game

Xevious: futuristic top-down scrolling shooter

Plus Rolling Thunder, Rally X, Bosconian, Dragon Spirit, Sky Kid, Mappy and Galaxian.

Namco Museum 50th Anniversary Arcade Collection is a must-buy, it completes the trilogy of classic arcade compliations, along with Atari Anthology and Midway Arcade Treasures.

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4Galage '88 Makes This Worthwhile  Oct 29, 2005 By J. Smuland "Shmoo"
Yes, this is yet another re-packaging with slow menus and a lack of new features. All of that is moot, however, as it includes Galaga '88. I still count Galaga as one of my favorite video games of all time. Preferably this collection would jettison some of the garbage games and add other Galaga-based classics like Gaplus.

Considering that the only other way I know of to play Galaga '88 is on Turbografx-16, the $20 for this collection is worthwhile.

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3Games are great, but presentation is lacking...  Jun 19, 2009 By David G. Hanson "Big Bad Dave"
The games included in this set are great, but the process of navigating the menus and saving your data is VERY annoying. TOO MANY LOADING SCREENS! And besides that, the loading screens take WAY too long for a PS2 title that is this simple (it's not exactly God of War, programming-wise). You sit through a LONG loading screen while the main menu comes up. Then you select your game. Another LONG loading screen. You decide you want to switch games, so you exit the one you are playing. Another LONG loading screen. Plus, let's say you've gotten really good at one of the games, to the point where you're really competitive about your high scores. You turn on the game, you screw up and die on the first screen. "D'oh!" you think to yourself, "I gotta start this one over!" But you can't. You CAN'T reset the game, there's no such option. You have to play through all your lives until you get game over, and THEN re-start. Why? Because the only other option is to select "EXIT GAME," sit through the #$%!%$$!ing loading screen again while you're taken back to the main menu, then RE-SELECT the game, SIT THROUGH THE @#$#$ING LOADING SCREEN AGAIN, and then start over.

Also, you would think a game like this would autosave your high scores, such as other titles from the "anthology genre," like Capcom Classics, Midway Arcade Treasures, or Atari Anthology. But not on this one!!! If you set a new top 10 score or high score, you have to exit the game, sit through the loading screen, and then go into the options screen, and save the scores for that INDIVIDUAL game. That's right, EACH game has its own save requirement, so if you play the game for 2 hours and set high scores on Pac-Man, Galaga, and Dig-Dug, for example, this means you have to scroll back over to Dig-Dug, select the options screen, click "Save," say "Yes" to confirm you want to save, and then scroll around to Pac-Man, do the EXACT SAME THING for Pac-Man, and then do it all over again a third time for Galaga. There's no way to just have the game save everything you've done on all the games so far, which is a real hassle. And over and above the requirement to save each individual game, WHY in the world would it not just autosave? Why on earth, on a title like this, would anyone get a high score and NOT want it saved????

Basically the games themselves are all wonderful classics,all faithful to their original versions as far as I can tell, but a title like this should be optimized for SMOOTH and SEAMLESS transition from game to game; people want to sit down with a title like this, gather their friends around, and take a stroll through a classic virtual arcade and go from game to game! The setup of this game makes that EXTREMELY difficult to do as you and your friends will VERY quickly get tired of sitting through the same ugly overlong loading screen TWICE every single time you want to get in and out of another game, and likely you'll get frustrated and move on to something else before you even have played all the titles on this disc.

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