We love retro games such as Galaxian, Xevious et al - check out our redesigned Retro Zone on page 116 - but would we pay money again for these ageing titles when there's Prey to fire up? I'll say nowt else except direct the uninitiated towards the website. Metacritic Game Reviews, Namco Museum 50th Anniversary for PC, It's party time Namco is celebrating 50 years of bringing you the greatest games on the planet by releasing the biggest and best. Probably because I was too busy playing Pac-Man down the local fish and chip shop to chat her up.īut I digress. In their place is a piss-poor soundtrack consisting of a handful of obscure 1980s tracks, with the only recognisable tune being Come On Eileen by Dexy's Midnight Runrfers, which incidentally, brought back painful memories of a party I went to in my teens when the girl I fancied got off with someone else.
No interviews with the creators, no facts and figures, no promo sheets or adverts from the time - nada.
However, the problem is that Namco are charging you 20 quid for a very lacklustre package that has a 'retro-cool interface' featuring the coin-op cabinets - and bugger-all else. Namco Museum is a collection of 14 retro arcade games including Galaxian, Galago, Dig-Dug and Pac-Man, and with the exception of one or two, all are genuine classics that you should play if you have any interest in our videogame history. Namco Museum - 50th Anniversary (Europe) (En,Fr,De,Es,It).zip 1.74 MiB Namco Museum - 50th Anniversary (USA).zip 1.51 MiB Nancy Drew - Message in a Haunted Mansion (USA).zip 2. You know, I never realised Namco's videogame heritage stretched back to the 1950s - the graphics back then must have been really shit.
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