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Namco Museum on Switch
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MikeHaggar
Member
I might be in for Rolling Thunder and Rolling Thunder 2. Will take a wait and see approach.
sixteen-bit
Member
Surprise! From the US Boxart thread:
Also the PR says it's $29.99 USD!
Wow, physical release confirmed?
wild wild rice
Member
Just a few more games and I'd instabuy. Seems kinda scant.
Namco Museum is now as old as the games were when Namco Museum originally released
beautiful
Totally agree with this. In a day and age where a single game can make or break a studio, it's incredibly important for companies to properly manage their legacy content. Don't get me wrong, I'd much prefer 30+ games, but $3 per is more than fair for these.
For those who aren't thrilled with the price, keep in mind that Namco had two Museum comps on the Wii. The second one had all the arcade games of the first and more, so it might be worth holding out. But if you're remotely interested, support this so we can get more!
MaverickHunterX
Member
Surprise! From the US Boxart thread:
Also the PR says it's $29.99 USD!
And really digging that new Splatterhouse art. Does anyone have a bigger pic by chance?
nicoga3000
Saint Nic
Yup. Gonna buy.
PerfectFlaw
Member
I've bought these games so many times that the only way I'll buy another Namco Museum is if I can walk around the museum with my Pac Man tour guide. I thought that was the coolest thing in the world as a kid.
Kinda crazy that they haven't just iterated on past features.
Kinda crazy that they haven't just iterated on past features.
Pyrrhus
Member
Yes, exactly this. They did this so well with the original releases and just dropped the actual museum part after that. Another way to play a ROM of Dig-Dug isn't enough.
djSyndrome
Member
Galaga 88, but no Dragon Spirit?
Okay.
Okay.
Robin64
Member
And really digging that new Splatterhouse art. Does anyone have a bigger pic by chance?
Nintendo tweeted this banner.
Nice that this exists but why only 10 games? Past collections, Namco's or those of other publishers like Capcom, often seemed to have at least 20 games or so. Maybe it'll get DLC?
Speaking of Capcom, and Sega (or Konami) for that matter, I hope they will start releasing classic (arcade) games as well at some point. From Sega I'd like to see either a super scaler collection or Switch ports of the 3DS Classic lineup. Capcom could do another version of that PS3/360 gen online collection for instance, with some added games preferably. A Taito collection by Square-Enix would be appreciated as well (with Chase HQ please). Interesting that it nearly always is Namco that is one of the first to go this retro route now that I think about it.
Speaking of Capcom, and Sega (or Konami) for that matter, I hope they will start releasing classic (arcade) games as well at some point. From Sega I'd like to see either a super scaler collection or Switch ports of the 3DS Classic lineup. Capcom could do another version of that PS3/360 gen online collection for instance, with some added games preferably. A Taito collection by Square-Enix would be appreciated as well (with Chase HQ please). Interesting that it nearly always is Namco that is one of the first to go this retro route now that I think about it.
sixteen-bit
Member
gotta save stuff for Vol. 2
Nice, thats pretty cool! Was thinking it would be a little weird if you couldn't do that
Might pick this up digitally down the road
lyrick
Member
???
Namco Museum Volume 1: 7 titles
Namco Museum Volume 2: 8 titles
Namco Museum Volume 3: 6 titles
Namco Museum Volume 4: 5 titles
(with 1 hidden title)
Namco Museum 64: 6 titles
Namco Museum [2001]: 6 titles
...
SmokedMeat
Gamer™
Fuck Mr Driller. We need a new Rolling Thunder.
I think you're mixing Namco and Midway.
The Midway Arcade Treasure series had more games, IIRC. Namco always was on the cheaper side.
EDIT: OK I was soooo fucking wrong LOL! Didn't know all these post PS2-era collections! :O
SmokedMeat
Gamer™
Namco Museum on 360 which is far and away the best release has over 30 games.
FrostuTheNinja
Member
Just saw the box. Definitely grabbing this at release.
Rolling Thunder will always be a day 1.
Rolling Thunder will always be a day 1.
lyrick
Member
So it's the exception?
It was included on the 360/PS3 version of Splatterhouse though.
Namco Museum (2001): 12 games actually
Namco Museum 50th Anniversary: 16 games
Namco Museum Battle Collection: 22 games
Namco Museum Virtual Arcade: 34 games
Namco Museum Megamix: 24 games
You gotta admit 10 games is stingy even by Namco's own standards.
Never played the Wii versions because I never had a classic/pro controller for it. I didn't want to subjugate myself to having to play those games on Wiimote only.
Virtual Console games are usually shitty value anyway which is why I barely have any VC to begin with. But in terms of this collection its a shitty value because Namco has released collections in the past with a beefier number of games included with more iconic games. I love the shit out of Galaga. It's one of my favorite games of all time. But there's no reason to include Galaga '88 in this collection when classics like Rally-X, Pole Position, Bosconian or Toy Pop is missing.
There's going to be another one regardless. They always do this shit. Leave out key games in the first installment just to put them in the next installment. And at what point are we ever going to see their 3D games included in these collections like Tekken, Ridge Racer or SoulEdge? They do the bare minimal with their collections and just shove them out. I understand limitatinos for the original Museum games on the Playstation but they have no excuses at this point.
Compared to Namco Museum on 360 this is a joke. I am baffled.
All this on one disk.
Xbox Live Arcade Games:
Dig Dug (1982)
Galaga (1981)
Galaga Legions (2008)
Mr. Driller Online (2008)
Ms. Pac-Man (1982)
New Rally-X (1981)
Pac-Man (1980)
Pac-Man Championship Edition (2007)
Xevious (1982)
Museum Games:
Baraduke (1985)
Bosconian (1981)
Dig Dug II (1985)
Dragon Buster (1985)
Dragon Spirit (1987)
Galaga '88 (1987)
Galaxian (1979)
Grobda (1984)
King & Balloon (1980)
Mappy (1983)
Metro-Cross (1985) (renamed Retro-Cross in European and Australian versions of the compilation)
Motos (1985)
Pac & Pal (1983)
Pac-Mania (1987)
Pole Position (1982)
Pole Position II (1983)
Rally-X (1980)
Rolling Thunder (1986)
Sky Kid (1985)
Sky Kid Deluxe (1986)
Super Pac-Man (1982)
The Tower of Druaga (1984)
Arrangement Games:
Dig Dug Arrangement (2005)
Galaga Arrangement (2005)
Pac-Man Arrangement (2005)
All this on one disk.
Xbox Live Arcade Games:
Dig Dug (1982)
Galaga (1981)
Galaga Legions (2008)
Mr. Driller Online (2008)
Ms. Pac-Man (1982)
New Rally-X (1981)
Pac-Man (1980)
Pac-Man Championship Edition (2007)
Xevious (1982)
Museum Games:
Baraduke (1985)
Bosconian (1981)
Dig Dug II (1985)
Dragon Buster (1985)
Dragon Spirit (1987)
Galaga '88 (1987)
Galaxian (1979)
Grobda (1984)
King & Balloon (1980)
Mappy (1983)
Metro-Cross (1985) (renamed Retro-Cross in European and Australian versions of the compilation)
Motos (1985)
Pac & Pal (1983)
Pac-Mania (1987)
Pole Position (1982)
Pole Position II (1983)
Rally-X (1980)
Rolling Thunder (1986)
Sky Kid (1985)
Sky Kid Deluxe (1986)
Super Pac-Man (1982)
The Tower of Druaga (1984)
Arrangement Games:
Dig Dug Arrangement (2005)
Galaga Arrangement (2005)
Pac-Man Arrangement (2005)
SatoAilDarko
Member
I really dig Megamix. Obviously 360 is the best with all those classic titles while Megamix only had 18 classic titles but some of the remix titles were really interesting. One of them being a port of the DS game Pac 'n Roll doesn't hurt.
I also loved how the interface was you rolling pac-man around a park with the various Remix games as rides and all the classic games in the "arcade" with cabinets.
Actually I think most would be fine with that control scheme.
I have multiple arcade sticks on Wii so MegaMix was a cool addition to all the Wii Neo Geo stuff.
lyrick
Member
Are you counting 'remixes'?
We don't know if this title is going to have a bunch of remixes in it (it probably won't)
MaverickHunterX
Member
Nintendo tweeted this banner.
Thanks! If you look in the trailer, they're the same borders for said games!
True, but the emulation was ....okay...for the classic trilogy. And the point is that of all the classic Namco games, Splatterhouse was somewhat of the black sheep because of its mature content. (IIRC, Rolling Thunder was originally included in one of the Japanese only Namco Anthology sets...)
Which leads me to ask if the game will be rated M because of it. It may sound stupid, but I, too, loved the 3D Museums of the PSone era, and hoped to see a version where we could explore the outside of a polygon West Mansion with the cabinet waiting at its doors...
Sigh...
Hmm...you have my ear. How would it work on switch? Like the DS version?
Even if you don't count remixes they all still have more than 10 arcade games. Also this definitely isn't going to have remixes or they wouldn't be boasting "10 games in all!".
Megamix would have been awesome except if you used the nunchuk with the Wiimote you were forced to use the C and Z buttons instead of the A and B buttons... and if you didn't use the nunchuk you still had to plug it back in every time you wanted to switch a game by rolling Pac-Man around.
SmokedMeat
Gamer™
No.
It doesn't sound like you're familiar with Namco Museum Collections since you're comparing the number of games when the series debuted to make it seem like the Switch release is par for the course. You're ignoring all of the other releases.
The Collection that released during the PS2 era had 14 games. Even GBA had 14 games. Namco Museum on Wii had 24 games. Xbox 360 had 30. The number of games on the collection was rising each generation. With Switch they absolutely cut back on the number of included games.
OrbitalBeard
Member
Inferno313
Banned
Why no Ms. Pac-Man?
Still, seems like a solid collection. I don't have any of these on modern consoles anymore, since I packaged away all my last-gen stuff. I'm tempted.
Still, seems like a solid collection. I don't have any of these on modern consoles anymore, since I packaged away all my last-gen stuff. I'm tempted.
Well, I withdraw what I said in my last post, sounds like Namco wasn't always all that cheap in the past after all.
THAT SAID...Imma go on Ebay buy on of those!
SmokedMeat
Gamer™
Why no Ms. Pac-Man?
Still, seems like a solid collection. I don't have any of these on modern consoles anymore, since I packaged away all my last-gen stuff. I'm tempted.
Maybe it's unlockable? It's crazy to picture a modern Namco Museum without one of most common inclusions of the past.
I personally recommend Namco Museum 2001 solely for Pac-Man Arrangement if you've never played it, easily the best Pac-Man game besides the original and the CE games yet somehow has never been ported to anything else besides GBA since. (Not to be confused with the crappy Pac-Man Arrangement found in Battle Collection and Virtual Arcade, which is just boring and ugly.)
Jonneh3003
Banned
Sweet, where did you read that?
Jonneh3003
Banned
Oh I don't remember hearing or seeing anything about playing it vertically, that's cool.
Edit: I just rewatched the Namco segment, are we sure that's what they meant? Here's what they said:
"You can use the standard horizontal display: (accompanied by this image)
..or even switch to a vertical layout for that classic arcade feel" (accompanied by this image)
That seems more like aspect ratios than rotating the system vertically.
shouamabane
Member
Ah, I was hoping for tate mode. It looks like a great set regardless. I hope these collections become popular again.
Emulation has come a long way since the hey day of retro compilations.
Emulation has come a long way since the hey day of retro compilations.
There are pictures of the vertical mode on Nintendo's page (can't link right now, sorry).
ToastyFrog
Inexplicable Treasure Hate
The official page says: "Play games with your screen horizontally, or switch to a vertical layout for the classic arcade game feel!"
http://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/namco-museum-switch
http://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/namco-museum-switch
Neff
Member
Namco Museums usually have a variety of screen modes and tweaks (arcade DIP switches and the like), including tate modes in the PSone originals, so there's a good chance this pack will too.
