Pac-Man Arrangement, while not as fun as Pac-Mania, isn’t all that bad. Namco, you had units that did that, so why not put it in the Museum collections? Anyway, moving on to the games people are less likely to be familiar with, let’s go over the Arrangement and other titles.
Thus, in the end purists will find it acceptable but disappointing, while people who are less picky may not mind at all when it comes to sights and sounds.Īs for the games themselves, the classic gameplay is all there, though the omission of the “speed cheat” for Ms. You have the seemingly useless ability to make the screen slightly bigger or smaller, but I can’t say that there was any truly noticeable difference either way. Pac-Man, where she sometimes chomps while slightly in a wall among other anomalies. In terms of graphics the problems are a bit worse, with issues ranging from everything looking rather blotchy to weird visual problems in games like Ms. Sound effects and music are generally good, but the bass in some tunes and a few nitpicky blips and bleeps don’t come out quite perfectly. Either way, the greatest shame here is that on a modern system with so much power, these games aren’t as perfectly represented as they should have been.
So either we’re dealing with a case of games running on an imperfect emulator, or the games have been recoded somewhat from scratch, and in a spotty manner at that. While at times it seems like the games truly may be emulated from the original arcade ROMs, at other times I know the originals never had some of the oddities and problems several titles exhibit. Getting down to the nuts and bolts of the games, I think the most difficult thing about reviewing this title is knowing just what I am criticizing. While there is no doubt that there are other, some arguably better, means to play some of the classic titles in this compilation, at $30 I consider this a steal for old-schoolers lacking access to the games otherwise. Not only would this number of titles usually span 2 or 3 editions, but the Arrangement titles are being offered for the first time on this disk as a bonus.
#Dig dug arrangement emulator series#
For anyone familiar with the previous entries in the Namco Museum series for other platforms, this is actually an enormous offering. Filling out the rest of the roster are classic racers Pole Position I and II, and arcade spelunkers Dig Dug and Dig Dug Arrangement. For the shooter fans there are Galaga, Galaga Arrangement, and Galaxian. Pac-Man, Pac-Man Arrangement, Pac-Attack, and Pac-Mania. Beginning with the Pac-Man family, we have Pac-Man, Ms. For those unaware of the games in this edition, there are a whopping 12 titles represented, though many of them are admittedly variations on one another. While some may characterize this newest installment in the Namco Museum series as yet another attempt to cash in on games long past their prime, I’d like to personally offer a firmly dissenting opinion.
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