Namco Museum Review

Namco Museum brings some classic games back to life on the Nintendo DS. By using an easy to use interface, Namco Museum consists of 7 classic games which are: Galaxian, Pac-Man, Galaga, Xevious, Mappy, The Tower of Druaga and Dig Dug.

Whilst you are enjoying the game of your liking you can configure all sorts of options within the game at bottom screen of your DS. You’re able to change the game options such as how many lives you start off with, re-assignment of buttons, changing the screen settings (vertical / horizontal), changing the hardcore options and dip switches as you would on the real system board. There are also some handy hints for each game as well the instructions to play if you’ve never played the game before.

If you get tired of playing the single player games by yourself, you can play Pacman Vs. with your friends and they don’t need a copy of the game. You’re also able to allow them to play demos of the arcade games.

Along with the classic games, you’re given the ability to listen to all the sounds and music from each game and can create a play list if you really want to. There is also a detailed game description available for each game.

 
A neat feature is that you’re actually able to see the original instruction card and the system board of the game you select.

 
 
 
Namco Museum has a nice and clean interface making it very easy to use. In addition to the arcade games, there is a fair bit of content to read up on for each game. The only downsides I can see to Namco Museum is that there might not be enough arcade games and it’s likely to only suit those who’ve played these arcade games before or just generally like arcade games.