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- Reviewed on: 12/12/1996
- Updated on: 05/02/2000
- Released on: 07/31/1996
- Originally published on GameSpot: Namco Museum Vol. 1 (PlayStation) Review
Namco Museum Volume1 is the first in a series of five compilations of arcade classics. Each edition contains multiple games, and the entire collection creates a retro-80s...museum? This first volume features Pac-Man, Pole Position, Rally-X, New Rally-X (go figure), Bosconian, something called Toy Pop, and the mighty Galaga. These titles are, without exception, true to their original stand-up arcade machines.
Was Pac-Man really this slow? Pole Position this difficult? New Rally-X this much like old Rally-X? For those who were there, these near-perfect emulations (despite the missing voices in a few of the musical scores) are chilling. They induce instant past-life regression, and will undoubtedly deliver older gamers to a time before anti-aliasing - the salad days, when the only worry was literal annihilation by global thermonuclear war. Those who enjoyed video gaming's formative years will see these games and look past their extreme shortcomings: They won't mind the primitive graphics and sound because they'll be rediscovering a wealth of gameplay. Those who did not...probably won't.
The fevered rush of countless split-second decisions drove gamers to the primordial quarter slots fifteen years ago, and for good reason. The pace of Rally-X is daunting. The process of passing cars around tight turns in Pole Position is sure to provide whole orthidonture's worth of tooth-grinding. The double firepower of a rescued fighter in Galaga provides glory unmatched since the first Space Shuttle mission; the loss of said fighter invokes a sense of tragedy that rivals Chernobyl...unless, of course, you never played the original.
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