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Namco opening Museum on DS

By Tim Surette, GameSpotPosted Apr 10, 2007 3:33 pm PT

Collection of ported classics coming to Nintendo's dual-screened handheld; Namco Museum DS includes Pac-Man vs., Galaga, Xevious, more.

Namco (now Namco Bandai Games) has been releasing console collections of its arcade hits since the mid-1990s under the name Namco Museum. The series has hit just about every system in recent memory, and is adding one more to its list of consoles conquered this year.

The company today announced that it is working on Namco Museum DS, which is set for release this summer. The eight-game collection features several familiar names from coin-op arcades, including Pac-Man, Dig Dug II, Galaga, and Mappy.

Namco Museum DS will also include a version of Pac-Man vs.--a first for the series--the 2003 game created by Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto. This take on the famous franchise was designed for multiplayer action, as three gamers can play as the ghosts and chase after a human-controlled Pac-Man. Pac-Man vs. will also support game sharing, allowing four people to play using only one cartridge and four DSes.

Namco Museum DS includes the following:
Pac-Man
Pac-Man vs.
Dig Dug II
Galaga
Galaxian
Mappy
Xevious
Tower of Druaga

Namco Museum DS has not yet been rated by the ESRB and will retail for $19.99.

43 Comments

  • Kitsune1

    Posted Apr 11, 2007 1:59 pm PT

    Pac-Man Vs. and Mappy alone make the game worth of it's $20.00 price tag

    I hope Namco Bandai doesn't mess this up like they did with the GBA interations (due to you can't save your high scores)

  • SnuffDaddyNZ

    Posted Apr 11, 2007 11:45 am PT

    Given Namco's back catalog this is about the best of what you could expect.

    Even I'm starting to get sick of the games appearing on all platforms, and I live for retro.

    I have the GBA version of this from way back, so Ill be skippin this.

  • a-man-called-e

    Posted Apr 11, 2007 9:14 am PT

    a great pack

  • chrth

    Posted Apr 11, 2007 8:22 am PT

    Definitely worth it. While I already have all of them via the Namco Museum Classics for PS, this way it's portable and all on one (instead of 3 different disks). Added to Wish List.

  • RetroGameFanCom

    Posted Apr 11, 2007 7:02 am PT

    Um, havent we all bought these about 10 times by now? I guess they still sell if they keep re-releasing.

  • chrisdojo

    Posted Apr 11, 2007 6:25 am PT

    add another 10 games and it might be worth it.

  • Rect_Pola

    Posted Apr 11, 2007 5:49 am PT

    Ahh, classic goodness

  • anamnawshad

    Posted Apr 11, 2007 5:30 am PT

    Great!

  • Scammeleon

    Posted Apr 11, 2007 4:43 am PT

    YAY PAC-MAN Vs.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Yay Pac-Man!

    yay Xevious.

    yay...

  • Terebi_chan

    Posted Apr 11, 2007 4:27 am PT

    (sigh) 8 games (one previously a console release) on this collection, yet on the recent Konami compilation, there are 15 games...FIFTEEN, which feature extensive extras.

    I'm afraid I'll have to pass on this one. It's not the games themselves that are problem (at least not partially), but rather it's the fact that there are so few of them, plus there likely won't be any extras either. I'm beginning to wonder if Namco even cares anymore. Further, I'm beginning to wonder if Namco is biased towards the PSP...

  • Riorio99

    Posted Apr 11, 2007 3:55 am PT

    A couple more games and that could warrant a purchase.

  • zsc4

    Posted Apr 11, 2007 2:14 am PT

    Interesting ... Good or bad news?

  • stfolife

    Posted Apr 11, 2007 12:26 am PT

    yay?

  • kavadias1981

    Posted Apr 10, 2007 11:25 pm PT

    Nor a bad collection. Could have been a lot more extensive though.

  • theKSMM

    Posted Apr 10, 2007 9:19 pm PT

    These are great handheld games, really good for a few short rounds when you're on the go, but the Namco Museum for the PSP has more games. Of course, it doesn't have Pac-Man VS which sounds like a fun concept, though I'm not sure why it took a legendary game designer to come up with the idea of letting other players control the ghosts. (I assume there must be more to it than that.)

    I'm also assuming that the reason for only eight games has to do with the limitations of the DS cartridge's memory compared with a CD / DVD / UMD.

  • Renzoku

    Posted Apr 10, 2007 8:44 pm PT

    Mappy brings back many memories from the good ol' days... anyways I won't be getting this. I can play them on mi GP2X already.

  • robfield

    Posted Apr 10, 2007 8:20 pm PT

    Those are the same games that were on the playstation Namco Museum...what a gip

  • nesto423

    Posted Apr 10, 2007 7:53 pm PT

    i just wish we would get all the capcom museums .. street fighter compilations ... all the good stuff that psp has. "i have a ds lite and love it , but my son has the psp and he has cool games like gradius that i grew up to "playing on nintendo" how bout some contra , or some mortal kombat , more street fighter 2 or 3 ... make them better then the 2 button gameboy versions .. "and wifi so we can play each other" wirelses. ... anyway i could go on and on... but i wont.

  • hart704

    Posted Apr 10, 2007 7:29 pm PT

    Namco Museum on the GBA was good enough. Too many repeats here to warrant a purchase.

  • gill9221

    Posted Apr 10, 2007 7:19 pm PT

    If Pac-Man Vs has Wi-Fi support, I'm picking this up.

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