nintendo gamecube namco museum 50th anniversary

All of the games are lined up next to each other just like arcades back in the day, and seeing all of them running in attract mode next to each other is pure awesome. If you scroll over to one of the Pole Position cabinets, for instance, you'll see exactly what it looked like in the arcades, with the attract mode running, the steering wheel, fat shifter stick complete with the boot, and even the racing stripes on the cabinet side panels and coin box. Instead of having a boring menu where you just select the game's logo and play it, Namco re-created a virtual arcade of sorts, with all 16 games being housed in its own facsimile arcade cabinet, complete with original control setup. The other cool thing about Namco 50th (and I mean cool) is the main menu for selecting a game. The challenge adds a welcome level of value to the game, so there's something to achieve rather than just play the games that are there. While old grizzly vets can acquire these scores in their sleep, for some people it may present a genuine challenge to attain these high scores, bringing back the reason why the games were so popular back in the day. In order to play them you need to get high scores in their original versions that is, 40,000 points in Galaga and 35,000 points combined in the two Pac-Man games. These games are locked at the start, though. As nice surprise, two more games are available: The 3D Pac-Man game Pac-Mania, and Galaga '88.

Here's the list of the 14 games that are initially available to play on this compilation disc:īut wait! There's more. Sure, Pac-Man, Galaga, and Pole Position are welcomed in any kind of re-release, but if that's really the only thing to offer in a game, then why bother? Thankfully Namco realized this problem and pulled out all the stops for their 50th Anniversary edition of Namco Museum. Compared to the recent Midway offerings, most of Namco's arcade compilations were a little disappointing.

Nintendo gamecube namco museum 50th anniversary