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perfect travel game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: March 30, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I remember playing Pac Man and Galaga and Pole Position in college. Hours upon hours. We bought this package of games first for the Nintendo and then for the Gameboy Advance. My kids love it, especially on trips, because you can start and stop at any time unlike role-playing games. The controls on the Gameboy Advance are perfectly suited for this suite of games -- you get the same experience as the arcade game, without a line of yahoos panting down your neck fingering their quarters, waiting for their turn. It's a lot of fun for the whole family!

Namco museum...sort of boring

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: July 01, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I think only old people would like this game, composed of five games actually, since the games are from one of the oldest videogame making industries that date back before Nintendo, which by may say is unfortunate for the Gameboy Advance. Namco consists of very repetive, old gameplay in five different games that are very well known to the old folk. It consists of Mrs. Pacman, DigDug, Pole Position, Galaxian, and Galaga. Mrs. Pacman is identical to the original Pacman except that you're a girl, the ghosts have different personalities and actions, and there is a small story made of cut screens in-between levels that show how Pacman and Mrs. Pacman fell in love. However, you can have side-scrolling view or full view by your choice. (What stinks is the power dots don't last long)
For Digdud, you are a digger seeking to defeat the little creatures that are messing up your flower garden. As you walk in the controlled directions Dug will dig a tunnel in the dirt that makes it easier to travel. You are also included an air pump, where you shove a wire into the critters and pump in air until they explode. Defeat all the enemies to go to the next stage.
Pole Position is a simple 3-D racing game, where you have High and Low gear shifs that change you acceleration ate and maximum speed. You have to qualify first before racing the tournament, and you have time. Every lap you gain a few more seconds. The hardest of the five games.
Galaxian is remotely similar to Space Invaders, where a group of aliens hover above, lowering slowly toward your ship, shooting you at times while you try to do the same to them. Be careful...some dive at you.
Galaga is similar to Galazian too except they are space bugs and swirl in big patterns before stopping to hover above, just like Galaxian.

The graphics are still the old kind including the exact same sound effects they used in the 80's. Unless you really like arcade games, don't buy this. The only time you'd play this would be in a long car ride.

Great Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 6
Date: May 12, 2003
Author: Amazon User

The Game has all the great features of the acarde games.

Namco Museum

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: December 27, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game is tons of fun! I recenly received it for christmas and have played it constantly since. It includes a racing game dig dug and ms pacman as well as galaga. They are all a lot of fun! I would Suggest purchasing this game for anyone who enjoys vintage games.

Worth the $$$...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: January 11, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Namco's reputation for developing great and influential games is deserved, but some older games have survived the passage of time better than others. The evolutionary dead ends -- fantastic ideas that simply didn't influence successive generations of games in obvious ways (Joust, Warlords, Missile Command, Marble Madness) -- are the really lively part of classic video gaming. Namco's blessing and curse is that it successfully predicted (or perhaps determined?) the future path of video gaming. This collection is hurt by both that and the stinginess reflected in the short game list.

To address the first: Pole Position is included on release after release of NamcoMuseum. It's a racing game, very modern by classic standards, that fails to be fun. Why? It was a good game -- so influential that almost any sixteen-bit-and-earlier racing game was its child (this includes Sega's great Virtua Racing series). Unfortunately, the games that follow in its footsteps outdo it by miles. Therefore, nostalgia is the only real reason to play it.

The other games make out better: Ms. Pac-Man is a blast, even though the whole franchise is overrated and overexposed; Dig-Dug is the gem of this collection, providing plenty of bizarro rock-dropping, air-pumping, dig-dugging action among the pookas and fygar; and Galaga and its (surprisingly fun) forbear Galaxian round out the shooter niche nicely, though, again, they inspired so many copycats (after copying Space Invaders first) that they feel rather diluted.

Why only three stars? Well, to get to the second point, there's only five games! Even Konami, whose classic arcade games are criminally underrated and who can't have expected decent sales, managed to get six games on their GBA cart. I refuse to believe that any of these ports, no matter how accurate, took up very much space. Xevious, Mappy, Toy Pop, Bosconian, even RallyX (all but the first evolutionary dead-ends)... at least a couple of these could and should have been shoehorned onto the cartridge somehow. There's also no museum at all (not even release dates), but that's expected on the GBA.

All in all, the ports are faithful (though turning corners in Ms. Pac-Man and Dig-Dug is slower than I remember), the games are fun, and, most importantly, it's cheap. If you want a more fulfilling classic experience, though, look to Konami Arcade Advanced and Activision Anthology.

Great games

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: February 23, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I love this game. I got it for my daughter for Christmas. I ended up playing it so much I had to get my own Game boy.

"Namco in my Hands"

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 05, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game I got for a Bargain. $15 for this game and it was worth it for me. It lives up good games, Mrs. Pacman, Dig dug, Galaga, Galagar, and that racing game. All are good, except for 1 thing, It can't save!!! All my high scores in Mrs. Pacman, gone. But still, its good for in-between classes like Break time. It is really great. Overall- 4 stars to this cuz it can't save. But that is it. The rest is all in Heaven!

If young kids only knew..

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 05, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This is one of my favorite gameboy advance games. The games are exactly as I remember them spending all that time and quarters at the arcade. Just think of all the money you could of had if we had an gameboy advance then. Anyway kids today might find these games simple and not hold their interest long. But it's perfect for an adult who enjoyed them as a kid and only has 30 minutes for lunch and wants to forget about the job for a moment.

Great game for a young gamer!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 28, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game for my 5 year old son who has limited video game experience. He loves it and it's perfect for introducing video gaming. My husband and I have spent a lot of time playing it too! I highly recommend it for parents looking for an easy fun game as a starter for young kids!

Great games... two of them anyway.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 31, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Ms Pac-Man and Galaga are the reasons to own this. Dig-Dug is O.K. but gets boring quickly. Fun for nostalgia reasons. I wish the games were more customizable. I would like to speed up Ms Pac-Man like I could on the old Sega Genesis release. But I'll take portable Pac just about any way it comes.

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