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Anyone know what "Namco Vintage" is?
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DaCocoBrova
Finally bought a new PSP, but then pushed the demon onto someone else. Jesus.
I want their later arcade offerings. 3D stuff.
Mr_Furious
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It's probably just the brand name for the future line of their 'games contained in the controller' thingamajigs that plug directly into the TV.
Link316 said:
Rolling Thunder is on Namco Museum Encore, BUT it's incompatible (or so Sony says) with the PS2. It does play, it just plays at about half speed (we were messing with it a few weeks ago). Amusing thing to note - The songs don't repeat so if you stay on the level for too long, it starts playing music from "Wonder Momo".
Agent X
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jarrod said:
That's good news, then.
jarrod said:
Hmm, I don't know. I sure hope not.
I liked the PS1 Namco Museum series the best. It had an excellent mix of popular and obscure games. The only hitches were that they were recreations rather than emulations (arcade purists will notice some alterations were made), and it was difficult to buy all 5 of the discs. When they were first released, they were selling for $50-$60 each. Now you can get Volume 1 or Volume 3 for dirt cheap, but the other three discs are still kind of expensive even on the secondhand market, because they weren't as popular as the other two.
I myself have four of the five PS1 Namco Museum discs. The only one I'm missing is Volume 3. Although it's common, I'm trying to get it in the original packaging with the big "M" on it so it matches the rest of the discs.
The PS2 Namco Museum is OK...probably worth getting for the "Arrangement" games, but the older games (not the "Arrangements") aren't really done any better here than they were on the PS1. I still haven't purchased it yet, for reasons I stated in this thread on the AtariAge message board. Here's an excerpt:
It appears that most of the games on the PS2/GC/X-Box Namco Museum were ported directly from the PS1 versions, rather than the arcade. That might not be too bad in and of itself, but as you pointed out, they didn't port over any of the extra features like the "museums" that you could tour, filled with interesting historical content on the games. Also, the PS1 versions of arcade games that had a "portrait" (vertical) orientation generally had the option to do the same on the PS1 (requiring you to do a 90 degree rotation of either the monitor or your head in order to view it properly).
If Namco ever wants to give it another crack (either on PS2/GC/X-Box, or on future systems), then they should offer a package containing every game that has ever appeared on the PS1 Namco Museum discs--but this time emulated from the original arcade games. They could call it "Namco Museum: Curator's Edition."
I think a PSP version done right--with more games and true emulation--could be a big winner. The PSP could even be rotated 90 degrees for true vertical orientation on games like Pac-Man, Galaga, and Xevious. Such a compilation is on my "wish list" for PSP, and I'd sure like to see if happen!