The GREATEST Retro Video Game Collection of ALL TIME! My tour of Namco Museum.
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ส.ค. 2024
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0:00 The Pitch
2:10 Volume 1
14:56 Volume 2
24:53 Volume 3
37:22 Volume 4
48:47 Volume 5
57:40 Encore and Beyond!
Namco Museum. PS1. Playstation Namco Museum
Pac Man, Rally-X, Galaga, Bosconian, Pole Position, Toy Pop, Cutie Q, Xevious, Mappy, Gaplus, Grobda, Dragon Buster, Bomb Bee, Galaxian, Ms. Pac Man, Dig Dug, Phozon, Pole Position 2, The Tower of Druaga, Pac-Land, The Return of Ishtar, Genpei Toma Den, Ordyne, Assault, Metro Cross, Baraduke, Dragon Spirit, Pac-Mania, Valkyrie no Densetsu, King and Balloon, Motos, Sky Kid, Rolling Thunder, Wonder Momo, Rompers, Dragon Saber
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I loved Galaga. Especially when he smashed the watermelon
They aren't friggin basketballs in DigDug, we been over this.
not what I expected at 11pm, but here we are. :D
This was supposed to go live at NOON not midnight LOL. Oh well what's done is done.
These games mean so much to me. I collected them as a kid because my parents bought Vol. 1 and 3. My local video store just happened to have a copy of Vol. 2 they let me buy. And then I got the others for my birthday from my family off Ebay. Now I have the whole Collection as well as the Japanese Collection box with all 6 volumes. As I said, these games mean so much to me.
Thank you for this video!
Damn that was nostalgic. Had all five as a kid, can confirm the weird samurai game kicked ass.
Holy shit someone's finally talking about the best video game compilation series.
I ended up obsessed with this game and bought first-print (so the classic NAMCO cases) of all of them a few years ago; they're the pride and joy of my collection.
When these came out I had volumes 1 and 3. At electronics boutique back then, I also saw volumes 2, 4, and 5 but I never bought them.
I didn't know about namco museum encore until decades later.
Congratulations on 100 videos!
Watching this video makes me deeply regret never picking up one of these as a kid. I had the N64 Namco Museum which is nothing more than a menu with a handful of games. I had no idea the PlayStation versions were like this. So awesome.
This was great dude👏
Dude, Pac-Land is awesome and I’ve seen that game get love from others. Definitely not a universally hated game.
This is such a super chill video, I have no nostalgia for this game at all but mid 90s anything brings me back to my 9 or 10 year old self, when life probably wasn't as good as we remember but at least we weren't adults with bills and real responsibilities and the world was a much simpler place. Thanks for the video and I enjoyed your red cow interview, you seem to genuinely enjoy their content which is nice.
Great video.
Your assessment of volume 4 was really depressing. Assault in the arcade was a dual stick game and badass. It was worth the price of the disc for that game alone. Having Plus on it was cool for folks like me. Pac Land has a lot of deep secrets that make it fun.
Everyone has their thing man, you’re allowed to love assault
I HAD all five volumes of the OG namco museum! such a great compilation series... the games might be hit-or-miss but the presentation was unlike anything I'd seen at the time! makes me wish they still made games like that. Shame that encore didn't dial up the 'museum' portion even farther than vol. 5 did! I do know some of the included games actually got re-released via the 'arcade archives' line on modern systems
Have so much more to say as an arcade head, but i'll just mention this for now:
1. Tower of Druaga's obtuse nature actually played a major role in the development of wider Japanese arcade culture. Because beating the game required you to find all these obscure secrets, and because this game in particular was so popular there, it led to players taking notes and sharing tips with each other. That communal spirit continued well into the fighting-game era, for example, where sometimes you'd see tables of frame data posted on the sides of the cabinets. It's also how they were able to obtain all these absurd score records on shmups without the luxury of savestate practice!
2. A lot of people now don't realize that Namco & Sega were the Coke & Pepsi of the Japanese arcade industry in its heyday. A lot of the more widely-remembered games in that space tend to be from Konami & Capcom, but if you look at the JP trade publications' lists of the 10 biggest arcade hits every year it feels like 3/4 of those entries came from Namco or Sega. i think this is in large part because Namco didn't get many major licenses for their arcade games like Konami & Capcom did, and a bunch of their arcade hits in Japan didn't get console ports (or only had them in Japan, as with Legend of Valkyrie).
Sega really should put out a good arcade compilation like this one, it’s long overdue
I liked the Taito Collections on PS2 more, but this is also nice.
With this aesthetic, I keep expecting you'll bump into a wall or any object and warp to another location, LSD Dream Emulator style
The musems in these games remind me of kingsfeild for the PlayStation NGL
In Pac-Land, you mash the jump button to glide after jumping off the springboard.
THANK YOU!!!
@@JasonGravesPoser lmao great videos btw, been watching a lot this week.
It hurts me watching someone play Super Pac-Man without knowing about the super speed power-up you get after eating the super pellet.
26:07 This character that appears here is Wagan (Wagyan) from a 1987 Namco arcade title sharing the same name, even the Records chamber Wagan is in looks similar to the arcade machine which was an awesome detail when I found out about it!
29:37 Druaga. It’s Druaga.. 🤦♂️
41:07 I think that’s called the X-Room? (Idk why it’s called that)
44:11 源平討魔伝 Genpei Tōma Den ("Genpei Defeating Demon Tale”) is the game’s official arcade title, though Vol. 4 calls it “The Genji and the Heike Clans” (good ol’ PS1 compression making everything unreadable)
46:29 I object to this statement, I find Pac-Land to be a really fun game (of course once you get the hang of the controls), sure it has its flaws, but I don’t think it’s a bad game.
47:30 I *highly* recommend a running start, get to almost the edge of the jumping board (the closer to the edge of it the higher you launch), and start repeatedly mashing the jump button and the direction button to slow your descent. (Gimmicky but fun once you master it ngl)
47:49 There’s a way to change it y’know, (going off memory) heading to the options menu (with triangle) and selecting the ‘Config. 1P’ option allows you to switch the ways you control Pac-Man. (Most preferable one there is the one with the D-pad to move and buttons to jump lol)
50:37 That “Cute little windup mouse” that’s chasing Mappy is actually Goro (Nyamco) also from Mappy (The red cat with the tuxedo)
Fun fact about these “wind ups”: These are actually maze solving robots developed by Namco in 1981 and were made for Micromouse (no pun intended) competitions.
58:35 SkyKid*
I was picturing you watching gameplay of that samurai game you couldn’t play while drinking a Rock Rock 😂
Bosconian heck yeah! I first played it on volume 1. Years later I played it on mame
Motos is actually a pretty fun game, which steals the idea from an earlier DECO game called Zeroize. It is a bit like bumper cars, but the twist is you have power ups that you can collect and save to use when you want, like a boost to your "bumping" power, or a jump.
Every day I watch these videos about games I own and am floored by the prices. I don't look them up because I want to own and keep my games but holy crap, my Namco museum 2, 4 and 5 are worth how much?!
They do support the namco weird analog controllers, but not Sonys analog controllers.
Dude, I'd love to see you do that huge Sega Genesis Collection. I mean, I think it's on all the modern systems too, so I bet a used disc copy would be cheap cheap cheap.
Got it on the ps4 and switch, that and the midway one on ps2 were what I had in mind potentially
There was actually supposed to be a PS3 remake of Metro-Cross at one point, it would have been called Aero-Cross. But it got cancelled, unfortunately.
I'm not a fan when they released Volume 1 and 3 under the greatest hits packing. They scaled down the N & M and added Greg Martin's Mr & Ms pac Man to it, respectively.
Damnit need more hour long content! Its great background noise while gaming! MOAR! YOU HEAR ME! MOAR!!!! and ffs get a haircut!
i went to my local game shop today and they only had 1 and 3 lmao
50:24 , FuriousActionGamer in the back right corner.
Mappy is fun!
So bizarre that Rolling Thunder 1&2 were not on earlier volumes.
I know right? You'd think they'd be no brainers
This Ordyne disrespect... it is hard for me to take.
I agree the presentation in this collection is top notch. Otherwise the games themselves are okay.
This video was awesome Jason.
The other key difference between Pac-man and Ms Pac-man is that the ghost behavior is randomized. So there are no patterns for Ms Pac that will work 100% of the time for each maze, like there are for Pac-man.
Bro is that GameStop on rt 31 in Clay, NY?
I liked pac mania as a kid because I could actually play it. And it has boss fights.
I will say that as an arcade Ms Pac-Man snob, the game doesn’t really feel right. I was heartbroken and my desire to collect the rest of the museum ended I want to revisit this now
If you play it sideways it feels right lol
If you tap X on the loading screen, the characters runs faster by every tap.
Hell yeah they do!
Yet It didn't include Timon To The Rescue.
I'm glad I'm not the only bafoon who got stuck on that damn springboard. I HATED Pacland when I tried it in the arcade.
You skipped New Rally-X. It's an upgraded and more balanced version of Rally-X that I feel makes it a lot more enjoyable.
I quite like Pac-Land, though I do agree the springboard sections suck if you don't know what to do. You're supposed to rapidly tap forward to make Pac-Man float across. This is made a bit harder with a d-pad, hence why they went with the arcade-accurate button controls. That said, you do have the option to use more traditional controls.
It's funny how you talk about Pac-Mania like it's a game nobody like, when in reality it's one of the more beloved games in the franchise. While it does have a slow start, the speed ramps up by the second maze, or third round. The jumping also doesn't negate the challenge, as Pac-Mania has you deal with a lot more ghosts, with each round increasing the ghost count to the point of having 9 ghosts to deal with. Later rounds also introduce green and grey ghosts that jump whenever you do, though the green ones can be jumped over with good timing. I never really had an issue with the zoomed-in view, since the jump makes it more manageable, at least until the late game when it becomes really fast, though I never usually get that far when playing. It's a new take on Pac-Man that's less strategy-based and more reflex-based. I like it a lot, it's one of my favorites.
Also you say Super Pac-Man was the most successful Namco follow-up to Pac-Man, but from what I've seen/heard, that's not really true. Pac-Mania was a bigger success despite (or potentially because?) it being released in the late 80s, and Pac-Land was a bigger hit in Japan at least, where Super bombed. This makes it unsurprising that none of the Japanese volumes got Super, but did get Land and Mania, as well as Ms. which had never even released over there. It feels like they only really started releasing Super Pac-Man again after they couldn't freely release Ms. Pac-Man anymore. Same goes for Pac & Pal, which was such a flop it never even made it outside of Japan. Really weird how Namco's response to Super's failure was to make a sequel to it with many of the same mechanics and changes that make it even further removed from Pac-Man 1.
Assault was a twin stick game so I'm guessing it didn't translate well to a controller. That said, I still find it awkward to play on a real cabinet.
Not an expert, but Dragon Saber is superior to spirit in every way
I totally disagree about what you said to pac mania
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