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Bored Silly

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: August 11, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I thought this game would be cool........But, I was definately WRONG! This game is tiresome,boring....and does't requirre that you use your mind or skill ablity. Even my 7 year old sister, puts this game down. I found it was a very good waste of my hard-earned allowance money.

Old school is just that----OLD

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 10
Date: June 26, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I don't understand the reasoning behind these old-school games--especially on such a capable system as the GBA. Nostalgia, perhaps? Maybe, but I'm not buying into the scheme. These games are old and tired, and don't age very well. Don't waste your time, or more importantly, your money.

Bored Silly

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: August 11, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I thought this game would be cool........But, I was definately WRONG! This game is tiresome,boring....and does't requirre that you use your mind or skill ablity. Even my 7 year old sister, puts this game down. I found it was a very good waste of my hard-earned allowance money.

Great Games but Poor Conversion

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 14 / 17
Date: May 16, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Namco Museum lets you play old Atari classics on your GameBoy Advance. These include Galaga, Galactica, Dig Dug, Pole Position, and Ms. Pac-Man!

This is of course a great idea in theory - I *love* some of these games. But while the games might be really fun to play on a big-screen console, they are REALLY tough on the tiny screen. For example, Ms. Pac-Man comes in two modes - a full screen mode and one that scrolls up and down showing you a partial screen at a time. The full screen mode has REALLY really tiny ghosts and characters, you can barely time your movements and often get stuck on walls. The scrolling mode is better in the sense that the characters are larger, but now you can easily scroll down into an enemy and the same character control issues occur.

On Pole Position, it's all about sliding left and right as your racecar goes around curves. With the arrow-control of the GBA, it's one light tap to make a hard turn. If you accidentially press too hard on the arrow, you smash into the side signs or nearby cars. It makes driving very difficult.

Dig Dug is a great game, where you burrow in the ground and try to drop rocks on the heads of dragons. Is this Revenge of Smaug? Again, I love the game but the controls make it difficult. You can be planning a careful tunnel to a rock and end up off by a bit, making the tunnel useless.

Galaga and Galaxian are both classic space-shooting games. Galaxian is a "secret bonus" in that it's not mentioned on the box but is provided on the cartridge. I really love both of them, but the controls are just as sluggish and imprecise here. With Galaxian having the penalty of "only one shot on the screen at a time", those missed shots make a huge difference in playability.

If you have a regular console, I'd recommend these games on a differnet system. I love the games themselves! But the GBA version is rather awkward. Everyone I had try this out got frustrated very quickly.

I can't put it nicer - It "".

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 6 / 20
Date: May 19, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I hate to do this because these games are classics, but this game is definitely NOT worth the money. A friedn of mine bought this exact game for the PS1 and he got sick of it fast (I played it for 30 minutes once and I couldn't stand playing anymore) Don't get me wrong, these games were cool when they first came out, but at this point in time, they have been as overplayed as Britney Spears's "Hit Me Baby One More Time." You can download similar versions of these games online for free! If I were a collector and had to have all things namco, I'd buy this, but since I'm not, I'm not going to. Again, if you really like these classic games and don't get sick of playing them frequently, feel free to buy this game. I turst Namco can bame better new stuff!

NO Battery Backup for your high scores!!!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: July 10, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game is worthless it contains no battery backup for your high scores. What the heck is the point of playing any of these games if it doesn't record your scores? Waste of time and money. .... DO NOT BUY. And be cautious about the release of Pac-Man Fever on Gameboy Advance, find out if it has a battery backup before you buy.

Get the console version- this one isn't as good.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: July 10, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I bought this GBA game(well, actually my grandma did) and I'm pretty sorry I chose this one. There are two things that I don't like about this cart. First, I love the challenge of beating my own high scores but you can't save your high scores. Second, there is no rapid fire in Galaga and Galaxian. If I hold down the button, it only fires once. You have to keep pressing the button to fire. This really slows the game down. It takes twice as long to defeat one wave of enemies as it does in Microsoft's Return of Arcade for the PC. Those games aren't as fun on the GBA. Aside from those two flaws, there's nothing else to critisize.

A history lesson, not a game

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 7
Date: November 13, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Museum Games are more of a lesson in classic gaming than an experience.

Namco's Gameboy Advance release of the Namco Museum follow the same path the Williams has taken in their several Greatest Hits releases. This current installment of the Namco museum includes a roster of five games. These games are: Ms. Pac-Man (1980), Galaxian (1979), Galaga (1981), Dig Dug (1982), and Pole Position (1982). These games have been fully restored on a single GBA Cart for your portable convenience. Granted it is nice to have five different games on one cartridge, but I would hardly call this a worth while title.

I can not site any performance issues, nor can I compare the Namco Museum to any of the current games out there. My reasoning behind this is because Namco fully restored Atari classics and packaged them for a modern system. Though I personally am not keen on this idea, I will admit, it is nice to remember the simple times. Each game is configured to interface with the D-Pad and the face buttons, whereas the shoulder buttons have no function in this package, leaving the controls as simple as the games themselves.

To my disappointment, both Galaxian and Galaga are virtually the same game. This means that you are paying for four games, when they advertise five. The slight difference between Galasxian and Galaga is the entrance of the enemies. In Galaga, enemies fly into view and bombard you as they enter. In Galaxian, the enemies are just lined up at the top of the screen, waiting for you to shoot them. All NAMCO needs to do at this point is throw in Space Invaders and advertise six games, but you will still only have four unique games.

The bottom line is, the NAMCO Museum is more of a history lesson than a worth while game. I rated this a 2 stars because Ms. Pac-Man and Dig Dug are still fun titles, but the other three just don't have a lasting replay value. I would pass this title up, unless it was on the discount rack for less than five dollars.

Namco Museum.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: August 21, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Namco Museum all in all is a terrible game unless you are a diehard fan of ms.pac man. The game shows a terrible quality of graphics. It lacks the beautiful colors that the game boy advance is capiable of. The animation is like of gameboy pocket quality. Trust me folks save your money and by a quality game like mario kart:super circuit.

It's too bad

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: July 15, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game has 5 great titles of classic games! They are Ms. Pac Man, Galaga, Galaxian, Dig Dug and Pole Postion. This sounds pretty decent, but really, no fun is coming out of this. Here's the reviews on the games

Ms. Pac Man: 2.5/5
I love Ms. Pac Man, but it's impossible to play on this. You play tiny, or huge, kinda like that one world in SM64. When you play tiny, it's too dificult to see where the ghosts are and such. The huge screen is useful, untill your scrolling down and run into a ghost you could'nt see.

Galaga: 3/5
It's fine, but it's boring. No value is brought to you when your playing.

Galaxian: 3/5
It's the same with Galaga, no replay value at all. I don't know why that's happening, but something dos'nt feel right playing Galaga or Galaxian on the GBA.

Dig Dug: 4/5
This is very fun on this, one of the only games I play (I'm gonna sell this game soon). But the controls can be funky.

Pole Postion: 0/5
Oh my god, what happend here!?!?!? When the women's suppose to say: "Prepare to be qualified" all I hear is MMMMMMMMMEEEMMMM!!! It like mumbles. When your turning on this, you are complety messed up, dosn't work at all.

Overall: 1/5
If your an absoulte Dig Dug fan, get this, if your not, dont bother thinking about it.

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