Namco Museum review (PlayStation 2)

Graphically, the games look the same as their arcade counterparts, and in some cases cabinet graphics are drawn around the game screen. Nitpicky fans will likely complain that the picture quality of a television set is far lower than that of most arcade monitors, and that some of these games look a little squashed and blurry as a result. Extra-nitpicky fans will notice that the sound in Galaga is low-fi when compared with that of the other games and that the pitch on a few sounds is off. But aside from that and a few occasional bugs--on one occasion, Pac-Man loaded up and started playing with the sound from the game's menu screen instead of the real Pac-Man sounds--the games play just fine.

In the end, if you don't own any of these games on other versions of the Namco Museum series, or if you're a fan of the arranged games that make their home debut in this package, then this game will satiate your appetite for classic gaming. You could make the argument that several other classic Namco games should have been included, given the small size of the old Namco games and the fact that lots of them ran on nearly identical arcade hardware, but this package contains the major hits that most fans are after.