namco museum 50th anniversary gamecube review

Most Pac-Man games are maze chase games, however it has also delved into other genres, such as platformers, racing, and sports. The eponymous first entry was released in arcades in 1980 by Namco, and published by Midway Games in North America. Entries have been developed by a wide array of other video game companies, including Midway Games, Atari and Mass Media, Inc. Pac-Man is a Japanese video game franchise published, developed and owned by Bandai Namco Entertainment (formerly Namco). Arcade, Atari 2600, Atari 5200, Commodore VIC-20, Commodore 64, Family Computer, Nintendo Entertainment System, Atari 7800, MSX, Apple II, ZX Spectrum, Atari 8-bit family, MSX2, Intellivision, Sega Genesis, Game Boy, Game Gear, Super Nintendo Entertainment System, PlayStation, Dreamcast, Windows, Mobile phone, Game Boy Color, Neo Geo Pocket Color, WonderSwan, LCD game, Nintendo 64, PlayStation 2, Xbox, GameCube, Game Boy Advance, iPod, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii, Nintendo DS, PlayStation Portable, Wii U, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch.The price of Namco Museum 50th Anniversary will be a nice $19.99, and it's due out this month. The cabinet art on some cabinets are really pretty, so that should be neat to see.

However, Namco is promising that the 'retro' menu interface will be a virtual arcade, with representations of the original arcade cabinets that the games originally were housed in. Since all of the included games are direct ports of the original arcade boards running on emulation, don't expect anything fancy done to the games. Bosconian, Rally X and Dragon Spirit are also games that haven't seen many new releases, and their addition makes the collection more than just another package for a Pac-Man re-release. Sky Kid is a top-down airplane shooter in the same vein as Capcom's 1942, and Rolling Thunder is a difficult side-scrolling shooter. Sky Kid and Rolling Thunder will especially be foreign to some, as 50th Anniversary will mark the first time the two games will appear in a Namco compilation. Some of the other games in the list might not be very familiar to people.

The same goes for Galaga and Pole Position. While you probably already have a version of Pac-Man lying around in your house somewhere, it just wouldn't be a Namco compilation without the yellow dude. Pac-Man, Galaga, Dig Dug and Pole Position are the four series that Namco are most famous for creating. If the first seven in the above list look very familiar, don't be surprised.

The newest one has 14 classics, including two new to the compilation crowd. To celebrate the company's founding 50 years ago, they're set to release another collection of arcade games from the past. Of all the granddaddy companies in the game industry that like to re-release old arcade games for a quick buck, Namco has done it the most.

Namco museum 50th anniversary gamecube review