Namco Museum 50th Anniversary (PC)

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It may have 16 solid arcade hits, but if you care at all about visual accuracy in your arcade compilations, this package most definitely isn't for you.

Specifications: ESRB: Everyone 10 and older; Genre: Action; Number of players: 1-2 Players See full specs

Price range: $19.65

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Reviewed by: Jeff Gerstmann
Reviewed on: 11/07/2005
Updated on: 05/17/2006
Released on: 10/25/2005

While the PC is the hottest of the hotbeds for the quasi-legal practice of emulating and playing old video games, it always seems to get the short end of the stick when it comes to legal compilations of classic games. After years of putting out its old games on the PlayStation and just about every other console and handheld out there, Namco's Museum series is now on the PC as well, with 16 of Namco's arcade games. The games are playable, but due to some weird screen-filtering options and unfortunate control options, this isn't quite the birthday celebration you'd expect.

Namco's arcade classics deserve better than this.

The collection contains 14 games by default: Bosconian, Dig Dug, Dragon Spirit, Galaga, Galaxian, Mappy, Ms. Pac-Man, Pac-Man, Pole Position, Pole Position II, Rally-X, Rolling Thunder, Sky Kid, and Xevious. You can unlock Galaga '88 and Pac-Mania by achieving some easily attainable scores on some of the other games. For the most part, each of the games controls identically to their arcade counterparts. Because most of these games only really involve a directional pad or other joystick equivalent, along with a button or two, that's not much of a surprise. However, we tried multiple PlayStation-style dual analog gamepads and were unable to properly assign Pole Position's driving controls to an analog stick. That's unfortunate.

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