Namco Museum 50th Anniversary

by Namco

Product Features

• Pac-Man - The most popular arcade game of all time
• Ms. Pac-Man - Explore, collect, and chomp your way through different mazes as Pac-Man's female counterpart
• Galaga - Fend off frantic swarms of bee-like aliens, while avoiding enemies' powerful tractor beams
• Dig Dug - Tunnel your way underground and use your pump to blow up attacking enemies
• Bosconian - Survive against an army of space stations, while avoiding asteroids and other obstacles

Product Details

• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B000A2GX2W
• Product Dimensions: 5 x 5 x 1.2 inches ; 2.4 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: August 8, 2006
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #26,918 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

Platform: Game Boy Advance

From the Manufacturer

In honor of its 50 year anniversary, Namco is creating the single largest compilation of Namco Arcade Classics ever to grace console gaming systems. The new retro menu interface allows players to explore a virtual arcade hall where each of the game's classics will be standing in its original arcade form... except this time no quarters will be required!

Game Boy Advance version includes:

• Pac-Man: Play the most popular arcade game of all time! Navigate the yellow fellow through the original Pac-Man maze, avoid ghosts while chomping pellets and fruit, and use power pellets to turn the ghosts blue and get some payback!
• Ms. Pac-Man: Starring Pac-Man's female counterpart; explore, collect, and chomp your way through four different mazes and eat new fruits.
• Galaga: Pilot a space ship, fend off frantic swarms of bee-like aliens, try your luck with "Challenging Stages," and find the best way to deal with enemies' powerful tractor beams!
• Dig Dug: Equipped with only a shovel and a pump, tunnel your way underground and use the pump to blow up attacking enemies.
• Bosconian: Enjoy highly addictive gameplay with this fun arcade game!

Product Description

The Namco Museum 50th Anniversary Arcade Collection is the single largest compilation of Namco Arcade Classics ever. Original versions of arcade classics are here, only this time no quarters are necessary. Five of the best Namco original arcade -- a world of action -- all waiting for you! Games include:

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars No thanks., October 22, 2005

A Kid's Review

= Fun:2.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Namco Museum 50th Anniversary (Video Game)

The GBA version of Namco Museum 50th Anniversary has only 5 games, not 14 -- Pac-Man, Ms. Pac-Man, Dig Dug, Galaga, and Rally-X is all you get. The other games mentioned in Amazon's description are not present. Wouldn't gripe about that if the games it has were playable, but control is awful. Pac-Man and Ms. Pac-Man require being very precise with up/down/left/right. Dig Dug actually jerks and pauses with the music cutting out during gameplay. Galaga is worth playing, so I gave it 2 stars instead of 1. Also, hitting [select] rotates the graphics 90 degrees for arcade aspect ratio; maybe that's an important feature for some.

A better collection for the GBA is the regular Namco Museum (NOT 50th Anniversary). No Rally-X, no Pac-Man, but you get the other three games plus Galaxian (quite good) and Pole Position (quite lame). The version of Ms. Pac-Man has more forgiving control, and its Dig Dug plays great.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars BEWARE--YOU WILL NOT GET 14 GAMES FOR THE GBA!, December 30, 2005

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D. T. Winkler - See all my reviews
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= Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Namco Museum 50th Anniversary (Video Game)

The 14 games that are advertised do not exist on the GBA edition--only five! Apparently, 14 games are available for other platforms, and hence the confusion. Also, if you already own the Namco Museum for for the GBA, you will only get two new games (Rally-X and Pac-Man). Both the Museum and Museum 50th Anniversary versions include Ms. Pac-Man, DigDug and Galaga. The Namco Museum includes Pole Position which is not in the 50th Anniversary Edition. In my opinion, many of the games in the Namco Museum seem to play better, but the 50th Anniversary Edition permits you to rotate the games sideways (not sure it helps much).

In short, it's three or four star buy if you don't have the Namco Museum and a one or two star buy if you you already have it.

3.0 out of 5 stars being a sucker for arcade classics, April 1, 2010

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Classic gamer! "Retro gamer mostly" (In NES land) - See all my reviews

= Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Namco Museum 50th Anniversary (Video Game)

First off I'm writing a fair review and hardcore fans of these games that expect near to perfect stay away! Firstly I bought this game not expecting a perfect emulation of the arcade's why two reasons. One being it's a GBA game and I would be playing it on my DS. GBA games are meant to be played with or/with out a back lit screen. To be fair the original GBA didn't have a back lit screen so the graphical glitch in Pac-man in the arcade view for me is forgivable. Secondly this is the 50th anniversary edition meaning these games aren't necessarily exact clones. I remembered playing these in arcades and they did play different than the older versions of these games (so not expecting perfection going into playing). Originally I wanted to give this game 4 stars, however it didn't seem fair the main issue dig dug has a sound glitch it only plays the music when you move. Also the game doesn't capture the excitement of the originals. I mean pac-man's maze is widen to fit a horizontal screen and the screen orientations you can flip to using select are pretty bad (and one doesn't even seem to work). Here is the plus and the minus that made this game just average. The game shows that they can make a near perfect version of Galaga on the GBA and then ruin all the other titles. If you aren't picky and just like the characters and general game play or just want Galaga portable buy this. If you want good arcade ports keep searching I find that Namco only has from what I can see made 4 star remakes mostly of arcade games, with the exception of this. All and you may enjoy of for the money or you may hate if I find many will be one way or another.

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