#Namco museum 50th anniversary x series#

Entries in the series have been released for multiple platforms, including the Game Boy Advance, PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable, Nintendo DS and Xbox 360. 1, was released for the PlayStation in 1995. The first title in the series, Namco Museum Vol.

Namco Museum is a series of video game compilations developed and published by Bandai Namco Entertainment for home video game consoles. If youвЂ™re looking to dabble in a bit of retro gaming IвЂ™d advise looking at the far more entertaining Capcom Classics Collection, which includes superior games and has been created with far more care.PlayStation, Nintendo 64, Dreamcast, Game Boy Advance, PlayStation 2, Xbox, GameCube, PlayStation Portable, Microsoft Windows, Nintendo DS, Wii, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One ItвЂ™s incredibly hard to recommend Namco Museum 50th Anniversary to anyone other than complete Namco fanatics, but fans would probably have wanted more than a few old games thrown onto a game disc. Music is also limited to the game select screen, obviously a decision made to try and hide the woefully small number of tunes included. The track list is ridiculously short, and while listening to вЂShe Drives me CrazyвЂ™ by the Fine Young Cannibals is possibly more fun than playing some of the included games, thereвЂ™s only so many times you can do that before it becomes a little repetitive. The gameвЂ™s 80вЂ™s soundtrack seems like the perfect accompaniment to the games, but it simply hasnвЂ™t been given enough attention. As with all collections of this type, the initial nostalgia factor is high, but youвЂ™ll probably only return to a small number of the games included. Xevious, Galaga, Galaxian and Dig Dug are all worth playing, but the others can only really be of interest to fans. Pac-Man still play as well as ever, although if you have any interest in either youвЂ™ll likely have got your pill-popping fix elsewhere. ThereвЂ™s no history about the games, no artwork itвЂ™s about as barebones as it gets.Дie hard fanatics might argue that all the games included should be treasured, but in reality only a few of them really stand up well today. Once inside a game you can save your high scores so other players have something to aim for, but thatвЂ™s it. Settings for each can be changed, with difficulty, lives, laps etc, all there to set up as you wish. All the games seem to be accurately recreated, although itвЂ™s hard to say for sure if theyвЂ™re perfect conversions. YouвЂ™re presented with a fairly attractive 3D arcade when you start the game, but this is rather ruined by an inability to walk around it, with each cabinet simply being selected by scrolling through from one to the next. Even for a semi-budget title, itвЂ™s certainly a little short on numbers. Pac-Man, Galaga, Galaxian, Dig Dug, Rally-X, Pole Position, Pole Position II, Xevious, Dragon Spirit, Bosconian, Rolling Thunder, Mappy and Sky Kid) with an additional two games being unlockable. The collection includes 14 games (Pac-Man, Ms. Namco was founded in 1955, so this marks their 50th anniversary, but the company didnвЂ™t start making video games until the late вЂ™70s, making the title seem a little out of place. While you canвЂ™t argue that most the games included are classics in one way or another, itвЂ™s hard not to feel rather disappointed. Namco is at it again in the shape of Namco Museum: 50th Anniversary. Grab a few old games and bundle them together in an elaborately named вЂanniversaryвЂ™ pack or вЂclassicвЂ™ collection and youвЂ™re bound to be on the road to easy money. Retro collections must seem like an awfully good idea at the time of conception.