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Classic Arcade
 Namco Museum 50th Anniversary $14.99 I picked up this collection of oldies but goodies around 2003 or 2004. There's 14 games plus two bonus games you can "unlock" with high scores. The games are: Pac Man Ms. Pac Man Galaga Galaxian Dig Dug Rally-X Pole Position 1 & 2 Xevious Dragon Spirit Bosconian Rolling Thunder Mappy Sky Kid Bonus games: Pac-Mania Galaga 88 I did not detect anything different from these games and their arcade counterparts, like some other die-hard game reviewers did. Like the Activision Anthology, this collection also has an 80s soundtrack of different songs to listen to while you're choosing your options. My favorites are the Pac Man and Pole Position games, Galaxian, Dig Dug and Xevious. I got into Mappy and Rally-X a little, they're fun "cute type" games. I tried Bosconian and Sky Kid a couple of times. In order to play the bonus games, you must achieve a high score on their related games. The instruction booklet does NOT say what those scores are. Now the bad stuff. You can choose options (number of lives, etc.) but going from screen to screen seems to take a long time. It's like you're saying "Come on already" waiting for the next screen. Once the game starts, you must play it through. You can't go back to the beginning, though I believe you can pause the game if the phone or doorbell rings. When the game is over, you must start from the beginning. You can't pick up from the level you were at, which is annoying as all Hell. And like the others have said, other than the two bonus games, there's no special features like interviews or anything like that. It would've been nice, but oh well. I have three of the PS1 Namco collections, but here at least most of the "biggies" are on one disc. Despite the slow loading, this disc is mostly a "must have" if you were around in the 80s. I give it four stars. I would've given it five stars if Donkey Kong was included, but I guess Nintendo must have some exclusive-type deal with Namco about that. A good collection of retro games.  Donkey Kong 3 - Arcade Classic Series (Nintendo NES) $3.99 This particular game features the following: * Donkey Kong 3 - Arcade Classic Series (Nintendo NES) * Cartridge Only  Pac-Man Retro Arcade Plug & Play TV Video Game System $34.74 Very nice game for the price. The build quality is a lot better than the older versions. The joystick and buttons give you the arcade feel. Unfortunately theres no Ms. Pac Man but I can overlook that on account of theres basically everything else on here including other pac man versions. If you like these games this is well worth the money. |
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