![]() Each game features pass-the-rock multiplayer (for challenging each other to beat the high score), and there's an options menu available for every game that lets you configure the virtual dipswitches the same as the arcade machine (you can pump up the number of lives per play, for example, and there are often sound tests and other features to play with.) The options for customizing the use of the widescreen are also very nice, as you can stretch the games across the screen and even rotate the whole thing and play the PSP sideways to simulate the "tall" view of some of the original arcade cabinet. The emulation is just about spot-on from what we've played, as Pac-Man's ghosts follow the same patterns of the original, and Xevious passed the tests with our old-school arcade expert. ![]() Those who are into classic games, however, get a nice assortment here. Also, some of these games are better remembered than they actually are - whatever it was about The Tower of Druaga that made it classic enough in Japan for several remakes and even a PS2 successor, I will never understand (we certainly never liked it in America, so it doesn't make much sense why Namco padded the pack with this instead of something like Pole Position.) You have to be the kind of person motivated by the drive for high scores to get more than a few hours of thrills at a time with these games - even Rolling Thunder, with its "save the world" spy caper, is not enough to fill the desires of an action junkie. There's Dig Dug 2 (something of a nice surprise to me as a fan of the original), the shooters Xevious, Grobda, Bosconian and King & Balloon, the platformer Mappy, the future sport Motos, faux-RPGs Dragon Buster and The Tower of Druaga, and even the fairly modern action game Rolling Thunder. The import version of Namco Museum also had Rally-X and New Rally-X, two early Namco racing games (one of which was also featured in the PSP Ridge Racer.) Those seven games made for a slim set in Japan, so for the North America release, Namco has rounded out the package with a ton more titles. Pac-Man, Galaga, Galaxian, and Dig Dug are the collection's cornerstone games, and you don't get a much better line-up than that from the vaults. That said, the real classics on this compilation are true greats that hold up. Namco has its reputation of 50 years in the gaming business (the console equivalents of Namco Museum to be released soon celebrates the anniversary), but it didn't get this far without a few missteps. As with any package of games from yesteryear, there's the mix of classics and clunkers.
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