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One of the great truths in the video games is: if there's a new console system on store shelves, you will find a copy of NAMCO MUSEUM available for it eventually. NAMCO is always ready to haul out their wonderful coin-operated classics for a new audience.
The idea for the DS version is simple: NAMCO lets you play eight video games that were built to be played in a coin-op. The controls are terrific, and the game selection has a few bona fide hits in it. Here's what the DS version has to offer: PAC-MAN: NAMCO's classic is back. Eat all the dots in a never changing maze and dodging ever-faster ghosts in the pursuit of dots, power pellets, and fruit. Warning, this game has been known to cause a rare kind of fever that may drive you out of your mind. THE TOWER OF DRUAGA: A strange choice, particularly since this game never really became a classic in the US. Maybe it was a hit in Japan? This simple role-playing game is a bit too ambitious for its simple graphics and ancient gameplay. GALAXIAN & GALAGA: This is a case where the sequel (Galaga) outdoes the original (Galaxian) so much the original is really a waste, except to collectors or the curious. See, the evolution of the top-down shooter kind of goes like this: Space Invaders, Galaxian, Galaga, Xevious. But Galaga is so similar, and so superior to Galaxian, we'd prefer to see something else in this slot. DIG DUG II: What's true about Galaxian and Galaga is not true about the Dig Dug series. This is a case of an inferior game replacing a classic. I mean you don't even dig during the first few levels of Dig Dug II! XEVIOUS: This classic top-down shooting and bombing game looks, and sounds, great on the DS. MAPPY: A fun little cat and mouse game and one of the very first 2D platforming games available. Worth a look but don't expect to keep playing Mappy months from now. It's not as addictive as Pac-Man or Galaga. PAC-MAN VS.: Here's why you should buy NAMCO Museum. Right here. Look no further. Pac-Man Vs, appeared a few years ago as a pack-in disc you could buy in either a Pac-Man World game or in Star Wars: Rogue Squadron 2. It was a complicated idea, multiplayer Pac-Man and it worked extremely well provided you had the friends and equipment handy. You needed a Game Boy Advance and the special cable that lets it connect to a GameCube controller port, and then you needed 1-3 controllers. The person on the GameBoy sees the whole maze and everything in it. He's Pac-Man. Meanwhile, on the TV, every other player sees only a small part of the maze and the ghost they're controlling. They have to chase Pac-Man around and the ghost that catches him grabs the GameBoy and plays as Pac-Man for the next round. Well, Pac-Man Vs. is not only available here you only need one cartridge to play it! Got a few friends with DSs? Pac-Man Vs. just became not only easier to set up and manage, but also portable.  
Arcade games are harmless, even when they're violent and these games aren't in any way violent. They all require quick reflexes, practice, and Pac-Man Vs. is a superb mulitplayer experience for families or friends with multiple DS systems.
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