Namco Museum arrives on the DS.
Namco has shipped Namco Museum for Nintendo DS, and it’s in stores today. For those who are not familiar, Namco Museum is a long-running collection of classic Namco games. It’s appeared on just about every platform imaginable over the past few years, sprawling 10 separate games by my count not including this one and the upcoming Wii game, and seems to strike just the right balance of low production costs and high sales to make Namco lots of money without commanding a full price tag. The DS edition of Namco Museum features a version of the formerly Gamecube exclusive Pac-Man Vs., as well as arcade titles Dig Dug II, Galaga, Galaxian, Mappy, Pac-Man, The Tower of Druaga, and Xevious. Purists will be pleased to hear these are conversions of the coin-op originals, not remakes with platform-specific enhancements, with the exception of Pac-Man Vs., which now supports wireless multiplayer including DS Download Play with a single game card. All this for 20 bucks.
Namco Museum games haven’t gotten stellar review scores in the past. The strongest reviewer so far has been the GBA version, averaging a 79 at Metacritic. It will be interesting to see if the GBA’s successor will outscore it.
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Namco Museum about to hit your DS
Namco remixing ubiquitous Museum onto Wii
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