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| From: Namco
Category: Video Games
List Price: $29.99
Buy New: $24.99
You Save: $5.00 (17%)
New (24) from $24.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 2297
Platform: Xbox 360
ESRB: Everyone 10+
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.5
MPN: 21022
Model: 21005
UPC: 722674210225
EAN: 0722674210225
ASIN: B001E3VKC4
Release Date: November 4, 2008 (New: Last 30 Days)
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Over 30 Titles - The largest and most comprehensive Namco Museum collection to date will keep you and your friends entertained for hours. | | • | Xbox LIVE Arcade games - No downloading necessary! Now you can get your XBLA fix and play the critically acclaimed and visually spectacular PAC-MAN Championship edition and the underground drilling classic DIG DUG | | • | New Arrangement Games - In their first console debut, 3 beloved games arrive with a new twist, a fresh new look and fun gameplay - DIG DUG Arrangement, Galaga Arrangement and PAC-MAN Arrangement | | • | Legendary Classics - Get nostalgic and play more than 20 retro favorites such as Dig Dug II, Pole Position, Pac-Mania and Rolling Thunder | | • | Leaderboards: Show off your high score worldwide and compete for the #1 spot |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
More than 30 classic Namco hits and new retro revivals come together for the ultimate arcade collection. Namco Museum: Virtual Arcade features hit games including Ms. Pac-Man, Galaga, Dig Dug, Pac-Man Championship Edition, Mr. Driller Online and Galaga Legions. Each Xbox LIVE enabled game features unique online leaderboards and artwork mimicking their original arcade cabinets. Post your high score online to see where you rank against the rest of the world. In addition to these titles (previously available via Xbox LIVE Arcade), Namco Museum: Virtual Arcade features over 20 additional favorites. Play through newly arranged versions of Dig Dug, Pac-Man and Galaga, never before seen on a home console, as well as arcade perfect renditions of Motos, Pole Position, Rolling Thunder, and Galaga '88, just to name a few.
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| Customer Reviews:
Caveat Emptor (Let the Buyer Beware) November 18, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Well lets begin this review with the games it includes:
XBLA (games will play without xbox live service)
Galaga Legions, Pac-Man Championship Edition, Mr Driller Online, Pac-Man, Galaga, Xevious, New Ralley X,Dig Dug and Ms Pac-Man
This disc is worth the price for just these games since they're the classics and remakes that are really good of the classics. Each game is worth a total of 200 acheivment points for a total of 1800 possible max points.
Museum Classics
Baraduke, Bosconian, Dig Dug II, Dig Dug Arrangement, Dragon Buster, Dragon Spirt, Galaga '88, Galaga Arrangement, Galaxian, Grobda, King & Ballon, Mappy, Metro-Cross, Motos, Pac & Pal, Pac-Man Arrangement, Pac-Mania, Pole Position, Pole Position II, Rally X, Rolling Thunder, Sky Kid, Sky Kid Deluxe, Super Pac-Man, and The Tower of Druaga.
With that you got some pretty good classics to choose from with a few title that could've bee left off but, hey why not. But, sadly theres support for leaderboards for these games or the usual acheivments for 1000 total for this game. (the game actually doesn't show up on your play list)
On the back of the box it doesn't state that these games will not have acheivments or that they do not support leaderboards. It's kinda miss leading cause it states on the back of the case that it supports leaderboards. Which is kinda true. It does for the XBLA games but, not the museum games. It should've stated that on the case.
I was looking to compare my best score of Galaga 88 and Pac-Mania highscores. Plus Dragon Spirt would have been fun to play online. I'm guessing with Microsofts rules for acheivements theres some odd reason why namco couldn't give you the normal achivements for the museum classic games collection. Since it's only available on disc and is new while the XBLA games are something in reality that is seperate.
Other than feeling kinda ripped on the classic museum it's still worth getting if you're missing key favorites of your past arcade games. Or wonder what the fuss is with aracade games that just won't die almost 30 years later.....
Baffling Issues Mar Yet Another Namco Museum November 9, 2008
There have been way too many Namco museums over the years. There just aren't enough games in the Namco brand that haven't released numerous times before on tons of different platforms. I am hoping to never see a Namco Museum again.
This one, though, does have some nice features. First off, it contains all of the Namco XBLA titles. Some of them have been truly outstanding (Pac-Man C.E and Galaga Legions) and since Pac-Man C.E. didn't break sales records, this might be your first chance to play the best re-imagining of a classic game in history. Galaga Legions is also a great re-imagining, with Galaga being more about strategy then shooting.
The rest, however, is the usual Namco stuff. Pac-Man and Ms. Pac-Man? Been there, done that. Frequently. Dig Dug? Love the game, but how many times has it been collected? New Rally-X? I hated the original Rally-X. Xevious? Are you serious? Mr. Driller Online with infamously bad online play?
There are also a large collection of Namco games that just weren't that amazing. Super Pac-Man was a joke. Oldies that never came to the US, such as Pac and Pal, are nice distractions, but it is not a really fun game. It never came here for a reason. And the re-visualized games (the arrangements) are just blah. Not ugly, but it doesn't do a heck of a lot for me.
The game has a huge problem, though. If you want to play the XBLA titles, you don't actually play them in the menu. You have to go to the dashboard and play them in your Games Library. Not exactly the most logical way to handle this.
It all looks good, but it's nothing we haven't seen before.
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