At last that's been sorted with a nice, smooth version that sounds right.īAD THING: The dots are still the wrong colour. 1 on the PS1 has featured the exact same abysmal port, with choppy movement, bad animation, and wrong colours and sound. Every Namco retro compilation since Museum Vol. GOOD THING: Finally, at about the 12th time of asking, they've done a halfway-proper version of Pac-Man. Pictured: the absence of attractive "bezel" artwork at the sides. (Neither game yet running in a satisfactory manner in MAME.) It's strictly old-school all the way, and gamers such as your reporter, with a hankering to finally get to play Xevious Arrangement and Rally-X Arrangement in the comfort of their own homes, are still plum out of luck. You get Pac-Man, Ms Pac-Man, Pac-Mania, Galaxian, Galaga, Galaga 88, Pole Position, Pole Position 2, Dig Dug, Mappy, Bosconian, Xevious, Dragon Spirit, Rally-X, Sky Kid and Rolling Thunder, some of which haven't appeared on collections since the original six-volume Playstation series.īAD THING: Sadly, none of the excellent updated "Arrangement" versions (of Pac-Man, Galaga and Dig Dug) which appeared on the last collection for Xbox and PS2 show up this time round, and nor do the other three games which got "Arrangement" coin-op releases in 1995 (Xevious, Rally-X and Mappy). GOOD THING: This new compilation offers 16 different games (two of them requiring extremely cursory "unlocking"), the highest number of any Namco retro pack so far. Rolling Thunder, still one of the most elegant-looking arcade games of ever. Perhaps unsurprisingly, this still isn't the definitive Namco retro collection, or anywhere remotely near it. You have to admire their gall in still milking the same cow, 11 years after the first Namco Museum.īAD THING: As usual, what they give with one hand, they take away with the other. GOOD THING: Namco have released yet another compilation of their early arcade hits, featuring Pac-Man and Dig-Dug and Galaxian and Pole Position etc. Namco 50th Anniversary (PS2/Xbox/GC/PC, currently US/Jap only)
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