During the recent Nintendo Direct presentation it was revealed that Namco Museum would be coming to the Nintendo Switch this Summer. It will retail for $29.99 in North America.
Ten games are included in the package, including classics such as Pac-Man, Galaga, Splatterhouse, Rolling Thunder, Skykid and Tank Force.
Here are some handy features that the game offers:
- Stop and resume your gameplay at any time
- Give yourself a new challenge with Challenge Modes available for each game
- Compete for the top score worldwide with the NAMCO MUSEUM ranking system
- Play games with your screen horizontally, or switch to a vertical layout for the classic arcade game feel
- Switch games, stop, and resume play with ease
Will you be picking up the Namco Museum for your Switch this Summer?
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Yes!!!!!!!! Bring it on! It has begun!
Square Enix, give me a Taito museum!
It really should be 15 games tbh but I'm going to buy it anyway.
I was immediately sold on "Sky Kid" alone! One of my all time favourite Namco games ever.
I have it on Gamecube.
Yet another OH HELL YES!
Cool! But in the meantime, I need to spend more time on my Mini NES that I got 2 months ago. Unfortunately I haven't had much time to play it due to things happening in my life and busy playing other games.
Wait, is Rolling Thunder 2 on this?? (The image above is not from RT.) If so, hooray!
No Ms. Pac-Man?
Looks fun, but not on my radar.
Are those the only games on it though? No Bosconian? No Mappy? No Xevious? I'll commend Namco for finally putting Splatter House in a Namco Museum, but there needs to be more IMO.
Valkyrie no Desetsu?!, I hope that great game appear there.
@AlphaJaguar, +1, and why not?, Konami with Hudson classics and Konami arcade classics
@SepticLemon not all the games are listed here. Some of the ones you mentioned might be on it. I would be surprised if mappy didn't make it.
Pausing and sleep mode will help 100% for high scores
I had a blast with Namco Museum DS and there's games in this collection I've never played before, so I'll be keeping an eye out for this.
Sorry, but $29.99 is too expensive.
Vertical mode is very enticing. Will buy.
@ECMIM Insta-buy if that's the case! Also finally, arcade Splatterhouse!
Heck yeah! Splatterhouse!
@jpfan1989 I played the original arcade version when I was younger as in the actual quarter munching version.
@masterLEON amen to that!
Whoa, didnt see that coming. They hadnt done one since the Wii. Although I really wish they didnt just have most of the games be ones that already have been featured in previous NMs
I had the original Namco Museum vol. 1 on the PSone. My favorite part about it wasn't the games themselves (although I loved them all and played them to death), but actually how the games were presented. You actually walked around 3D exhibits in first-person, designed around each game with displays showing off each game's history, artwork, and media, finally leading up to the exhibits game room where you actually walked up to the games cabinet to play it. I loved the ambience. If anything like that is in this, I will definitely buy it.
Really disappointed in the lack of a retail release. I'll give this a pass if they're going to demand AU$30+ (more likely to be over $40) for a digital-only compilation of ROM dumps. This is a retail or bust release for me. I'll only consider it digitally if it's around $10.
@sillygostly where did you read eshop only?
OH BABY!!!!! I'M SO IN!!! DAY 1!!! OTHER RETRO PUBLISHERS TAKE NOTICE!!! B-E-A-UTIFUL!!!!
@AlphaJaguar oh please that would be so awesome!! Taito has tons of classics!!! Square doesn't do nothing with em!!
@faint : The European Direct (I'm Australian but pretty much most of the European market info applies to us). It made no mention of a retail release and specifically stated that it was coming to the eShop in Summer.
Derp. I just realised that I could import the U.S. version if it's eShop exclusive in PAL regions…
@ECMIM @Captain_Gonru @Dazza Here you go, courtesy of a separate, and totally different, YouTube trailer for Namco Museum for the Switch (at the end):
-Pac-Man
-Dig Dug
-Galaga
-Galaga '88
-The Tower of Druaga
-Sky Kid
-Splatterhouse
-Rolling Thunder
-Rolling Thunder 2
-Tank Force
@faint In the Direct at the end of it's segment (around 27:52 of the NoA version). While I wouldn't mind a physical version, I think I'd rather have this as a digital title. My Switch is turning into a portable arcade machine
Pacman battle royal should be in this game. No Nintendo system or handheld got it. They should add Pacman 256 to the E-shop as well.
Is this the 50th Namco Museum?
All jokes aside, I will be purchasing this, most likely Day 1
This is going to be a great game to pass time with.
Though this is better than dripfed VC, I'd like to see a lot more on a Namco Collection. I'd pay $60 for A MASSIVE cartridge.
@nobboysbro I believe that had like 15-18 titles in that 50th disc
@masterLEON Galaga 88, splatter house and the rolling thunder games are the stars of that show! Why do they always seem to leave Ms Pac Man out? Such a better game than the original!! 🤔
@VR32F1END Namco does have a ton of other classics missing here. Too many to even list!! Hopefully they'll do a volume 2!!
Now if only Nintendo can get that virtual console going?? With the Namco museum and the Neo Geo titles flowing in weekly, the Switch can potentially become a retro arcade beast!! Your move ninty!!
@joey302 lol I was saying that there had been like 20ish Namco Museums before, not about the 50th anniversary Namco Museum, even though a lot of the games are the same on it (Pac-Man, Galaga, Sky Kid).
@nobboysbro gotcha! Hell I have every Namco museum on every system going all the way back to the N64/ps one!! I'll be grabbing this as well. Looks like a retail version is planned too as Nintendo site showing box art! 😁😃😆
I'll admit, I'm shocked that Splatterhouse is on here. I always assumed that Namco never put it in collections given its content and the fact that they feared an M rating.
Splatterhouse is no Mortal Kombat, but its still a pretty graphic game in terms of content.
I wonder what rating this collection will get....
Nice little collection, surprised at Splatter House being on there.
@Shiryu ha, this Sky Kid game scrolls the wrong way! 😜
wait this is a retail release of 10 games?!
@joey302 I also have a lot, I have Namco Museum 64, Namco Museum for GameCube, Namco Museum 50th Anniversary, Namco Museum DS, Namco Museum Remix, Namco Museum Megamix, and soon, the day it comes out, this!
Hell no! I can only speak for myself, but the fact i own Namco Museum (PS2) which possess half the games in this 'new' collection, the other half i can pick up via various sources a lot cheaper. This is an example how NOT to forge a worthy retro collection of games.
Maybe Nintendo plays the VC for other companies to be like this on the Switch and Nintendo will just work on their own games from here on out?
That's a pretty meagre collection. let's hope it's just Vol.1 and they do a bunch more.
I want Xevious, Super Xevious, Xevious: Fardraut Saga, Xevious Arrangement and Xevious Resurrection would be nice as well.
Not to mentions Galaxian, Gaplus and Assault just for starters.
I was disappointed when watching the Direct as I could see there was a section coming up on classic games. So I got excited that it would be details on the VC, looks like we have to wait a little longer.
I'll get this for the Rolling Thunder games, everything else is a bonus
This sounds like an interesting collection that I need to buy.
Oh, yeah! This is interesting!
I hope Namco Museum becomes an expanding product line like the Arcade Archives, though that'd kinda suck for physical card fans.
Now the Switch could use an arcade stick. ...hopefully with easily swappable parts.
bit much for just 10 games but for splatterhouse & rolling thunder maybe when its on sale
that sounds expensive but that works out at £3 a game if it turns out to be £30 in the UK when it comes out. considering Neo Geo games are £6.29 a pop I don't see this as bad value though I would have hoped for more than 10 games tbh.
Looks like a good collection especially because Splatterhouse and RT is included. I'm concerned that Xevious games were not shown.
Good stuff. What I really want though is Pac-Man Championship Edition DX. I love that game on PS3 and to be able to play it on the go on the Switch's lovely screen...
Only ten games. No Galaxian? What a downer!
@samuelvictor Don't worry, Namco Museum 2 probably isn't too far off.
Just 10 games? while the Xbox 360 one had about 30 games and even the Wii one had 15 games and 6 new remix ones. this a bit of a step backwards.
The first thing that flew into my head wasn't anything to do with Namco games, but with the vertical orientation of arcade games. If properly implemented for arcade games that were originally vertically oriented - and especially Shmups - this could make retro gaming pretty awesome on the Switch. A needed bit of out-of-the-box positive news.
Daydreaming about playing Radiant Silvergun and Raiden games!
Does anyone know if Hamster will be releasing coin ops other than Neo Geo titles on Switch?
@GrailUK Someone at Hamster said that standard Arcade Archives are coming to Switch later in an interview.
@CrazyOtto Thnx Ottoman
....What is up with her dress?
@samuelvictor that would've been good, yeah.
@joey302 Agreed. Once I saw the list, those were the same games I'd get this collection for. Keep those retro games coming! It's like they're deliberately aiming the Switch for my age group!
Also, right now, with 7 NEOGEO games on it, my Switch is basically a NEOGEO Pocket Color 2, LOL!
@masterLEON Hamster is really kicking butt with it! Good thing for us they pulled out of the vc service. You don't wanna be left hanging off a cliff waiting on Nintendo.....you will fall! Lol
Meanwhile Namco could've did way better than 10 titles for $30. Still gonna grab it though!
@BezBot lol I have every classic collection on consoles ever made! 😆
@MarioPaperBoy and Xevious and pole position & Ms pac man as well!
@samuelvictor love the Rally X games! So fun! How'd they miss that one! Vol 2??
@samuelvictor first discovered it in my local arcade when I was like idk 15? Lol. 25 cents in the states was the asking price back then for a try. Like I said - here's hoping this sells well and they put together a volume 2! 😁
@joey302 I don't have a PlayStation or XBOX so can't have all of them..
Worth it for Splatterhouse alone, which is currently only available on the 2013 reboot and Turbografx 16 (which isn't quite the same thing.)
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