{"id":16792,"date":"2017-08-23T00:01:43","date_gmt":"2017-08-23T00:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=16792"},"modified":"2017-08-08T18:27:11","modified_gmt":"2017-08-08T18:27:11","slug":"namco-museum-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/23\/namco-museum-switch\/","title":{"rendered":"Namco Museum (Switch)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>One of the best and most well-known arcade game makers of the 80\u2019s and 90\u2019s is Namco.\u00a0 They\u2019re responsible for classics like Pac-Man, Galaga, Dig Dug, and many more, and that\u2019s one of the reasons why they\u2019re my favorite video game company. I\u2019m always excited when they come out with a new Namco Museum collection of old arcade games, and now there\u2019s one on the Nintendo Switch you can download!<\/p>\n

The games on the Switch version include Pac-Man, Galaga, Dig Dug, The Tower of Druaga, SkyKid, Rolling Thunder, Galaga \u201988, Splatterhouse, Tank Force, Rolling Thunder 2, and Pac-Man Vs.\u00a0 I\u2019ll go through these games in more detail in my next blog coming later this week.<\/p>\n

Each game comes with a slew of options you can toggle.\u00a0 You can change the screen size and background, and even tilt the screen sideways like how many of these arcade games were back then, although you\u2019d have to hold the Switch in handheld mode kind of funny if you do that.\u00a0 There are tons of other options, too.\u00a0 You can play each game in Normal or Challenge Modes.\u00a0 In the Challenge Mode, you\u2019ll have to perform certain tasks in the game within a time limit, like eat a bunch of ghosts in Pac-Man, or crush as many enemies with rocks as you can in Dig Dug.\u00a0 High scores for both modes can be uploaded to a leaderboard, too.<\/p>\n

This collection does have a few problems, though.\u00a0 One of the big features of the Switch is that it has HD Rumble, and they use it extensively in this game, even though it isn\u2019t necessary.\u00a0 For instance, the controllers will shake violently when you gobble a power pellet and chomp ghosts in Pac-Man, which can get pretty annoying.\u00a0 Luckily you can turn the rumble off in the options.\u00a0 Another problem I had was that it\u2019s slightly convoluted to play with others on Pac-Man Vs., which is one of this collection\u2019s biggest draws.\u00a0 Granted, it\u2019s not as bad as on the GameCube, where you needed four GBAs and four link cables.\u00a0 But the best way to play Pac-Man Vs. is still on the DS version of Namco Museum.<\/p>\n

But the biggest problem I had was the price.\u00a0 You get less than a dozen games, but it costs 30 dollars to download.\u00a0 I\u2019m glad they have a mix of common and obscure arcade classics, but where are favorites like Mappy, Pole Position, or even Ms. Pac-Man?\u00a0 Namco Museum Virtual Arcade on the Xbox 360 had three times as many games, and I think it didn\u2019t cost as much as this.\u00a0 It\u2019s still a good collection, it\u2019s just the price of admission to this museum is a bit steep.\u00a0 Again, be sure to check back later this week when I give a more detailed tour guide through the games of this museum.<\/p>\n

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Kid Factor:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Namco Museum is rated T for Teen with ESRB descriptors of Blood and Gore, Suggestive Themes, and Violence.\u00a0 Most of the games on here are pretty safe for kids.\u00a0 The primitive arcade graphics keep the violence from being too gory, but there are a few exceptions in some of the later titles.\u00a0 Rolling Thunder and its sequel feature a sexy female spy, but the biggest culprit for the Teen rating here has to be Splatterhouse.\u00a0 This game was a tribute to horror slasher movies, as you control a guy with a hockey mask fighting all sorts of monsters.\u00a0 When you hit them, they\u2019ll explode and splat in pixelated 16-bit glory.\u00a0 It may look a bit cheesy now, but back then this was just as controversial as Mortal Kombat a few years later.\u00a0 I imagine older kids would find this game rather hokey, but younger children may still be frightened by the spooky sounds and graphics in this game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the best and most well-known arcade game makers of the 80\u2019s and 90\u2019s is Namco.\u00a0 They\u2019re responsible for classics like Pac-Man, Galaga, Dig Dug, and many more, and that\u2019s one of the reasons why they\u2019re my favorite video game company. I\u2019m always excited when they come out with a new Namco Museum collection […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":16789,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16792"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16794,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16792\/revisions\/16794"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}