Amazon.com Product Description: Remember those great arcade games of the '80s, like Pac-Man and Galaga? Well, they're now bundled together for retrogaming marathons. Namco Museum Volume 1 features true-to-the-arcade versions of six titles, including Ms. Pac-Man, Dig-Dug, Pole Position, and Galaxian. The games have an arcade debug feature to add more credits or change the difficulty settings. Players can save their high scores and game progress to the separately sold Virtual Memory Unit.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - Half decent at best
Anyone who remembers the original series of Namco Museum compilations that first came out for the PS1 years ago remembers one of the best parts was the Museum feature itself in full 3-D where you ran around as Pac-Man selecting what game you wanted to play. All the DC version has is a select menu. Thats it. You'd figure with the space left over on the disc itself that Namco would port over a few other retro games, but no. Not to mention the emulator used to port the games was very poor, and the sound is god awful (much like with the compilation Sega Smash Pack also for the DC) and your only option will be to mute the volume. All in all, if you loved playing these old games and still have a DC this is worth a look, but others should run in the opposite direction.
Rating: - bad luck
i know how fun these games are , I've grown up on them let us know when it can be shipped to australia if you own it and want to sell it let us know
Rating: - Pitiful!!!
Galaga was alright but not worth buying, pacman just [stunk], he didn't never moved fluidly like in the good old classic arcade. Namco should be ashamed. Pure [junk]
Rating: - Terrible emulation!
I love Dreamcast, and I love retro games. HOWEVER - this game has some of the worst music & sound emulation I've ever heard! (The music sounds like a pathetic MIDI translation or something - most notably on Ms. Pac Man & Dig Dug). Then there's the fact two of the games have LAME pictures and drawings that "frame" the game being played - which takes up most of the screen space (giving you a shrunken version of the game in the center of the screen). "Hello, Namco???? What were you thinking AND WHY such a let down??!"
Rating: - DC version is an insult to anyone who likes these games.
I can't believe that they even charge money for this abomination. Let me put it this way - this is EXACTLY the same as the PSX version of Namco #1, WITHOUT the museum features - it's just a simple game select menu! I checked, and the entire CD is 6 megabytes! The emulation is crappy (I don't even think they're emulated), the sounds are all wrong (Ms. Pac-Man especially), and the control is terrible. This was obviously ported to the Dreamcast in about 10 minutes by some high school kid working on a class project. A tremendous disappointment, and anyone who has ever played these games in the arcade will know they got screwed when they boot this up. Would give this a half-star if I could...
- bad luck
- Pitiful!!!
