It is also worth bearing in mind that all of these games were made with the intention of stealing Quarters from the pockets of young children. I also felt uncomfortable playing the Switch on its side, as I was worried I would lose my grip on it. The game does allow you to rotate the screen 90 degrees and then potentially play with a larger play area, but oddly the game doesn’t amend the controls to account for this. But all of these options apply to the game screen and are not in relation to the Switch screen, meaning that they are a useless addition. The display options look like they may help, with things like vertical/horizontal positioning, aspect ratios and fixed dot size. As these were all originally arcade games, the actual play area of the games takes up only a third of the screen, with the rest covered in a game specific background. But this brings along with it another problem I had, the size of the play area. At least they included Pac-Man Vs, a multiplayer version of the game that allows 4-player when playing with other Switch consoles, or 3-player when on a single console.Īlthough there are only 10 games, each game is treated with care, and the ports, to my knowledge, are faithful to their originals. Driller or Galaxian missing? There seems to be some strange omissions when it comes to this collection. And why only 10 games? Namco has a rich arcade history, why is Pole Position, Pac Mania, Mr.

Here in lies my first problem, two of these games are sequels, and to be fair, not all of them are what I would call classic. Namco Museum includes 10 classic arcade games Pac-Man, Galaga, Galaga ‘88, Dig Dug, Druaga, Skykid, Rolling Thunder, Rolling Thunder 2, Spatterhouse and Tank Force. Now, this isn’t the first time that a Namco Museum has been released, in fact it was almost 20 years ago that the first game with this name came out on the original PlayStation, but classic games are timeless, and Namco think that they could be onto a winner by releasing this game for Nintendo’s current console darling. Namco are the latest to get on board, with the Namco Museum for the Nintendo Switch. This is something that happens a lot when it comes to videogames, and publishers are happy to tap into this with remasters and classic game collections. We look back at certain things in our past with a sense of nostalgia, and long for a way to take a trip back in time.

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