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Pac-Man offers the option of playing all on one screen or scrolling as you travel up and down. This collection contains solid renditions of several favorite classics. Here, however, losing sight of the ghosts can be a handicap.Also, where are the options for difficulty, level select, extra lives, etc. The hints offered in the sub-menu are interesting, but a short blurb about the history of each game would have been nice. Galaga and Galaxian are certainly playable, but they are relegated to one side of the screen, making everything quite small. Unfortunately, it suffers the significant problem of attempting to convert long screen games to the GBA's wide screen format. Ms. Finally, the high scores don't save.
I'm almost 30 years old and bought this game for my son and I enjoy playing it myself because it's got the classic games that I played when I was a kid. It arrived very quickly in the mail too.
The game records high scores as per normal, but those scores are immediately reset when the power goes off. If you grew up playing these games, they're timeless classics. Namco Museum ports five classic games over to the Gameboy Advance: Ms. Points did matter with these games, and it's nice to see how high a score you can record. The sounds are crisp and faithful reproductions of the bleeps and blips from our childhood. Pac-Man, Dig Dug, Pole Position, Galaga, and Galaxian. Pac-Man, where you have the option of playing on a shifting screen -- the GBA screen doesn't compress each maze very well.The biggest drawback to this game is the inexplicable lack of a battery backup for high scores. Unfortunately, Namco decided to skimp on this feature.
That decision is disappointing, but the games themselves are still worth playing to those who grew up playing on their Ataris. The graphics aren't jazzed up in any way, instead celebrating the 8-bit glory that was the golden age of the arcade. Younger audiences probably are expecting more out of a game than the limited technology of the 1980s allowed.These games are recreated very well, with only a couple of minor issues (largely due to the adjustment made going from an arcade-size screen to the tiny GBA). The biggest port issue comes with Ms. After all, there's nothing wrong with nostalgia.
THIS WAS MY FIRST TIME ORDERING FROM AMAZON AND I REALLY ENJOYED THE EXPERIENCE. I GOT MY PACKAGE ON TIME AND EVERYTHING WAS IN EXCELLENT CONDITION AND WORKED PROPERLY. THANK YOU.
They are still fun today, some 2 decades later. I have this for GameCube, and couldn't help but pick this up for GBA. In a word, AWESOME. I now have a portable version of some of my favorite old-school games. Take a ride down nostalgia lane with this game and enjoy.
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