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1. #1996 dig dug arrangement monsters code#
2. #1996 dig dug arrangement monsters series#
3. #1996 dig dug arrangement monsters ps2#

#1996 dig dug arrangement monsters code#

However, the Namco Museum games take a somewhat different approach as explored briefly by, uh, Jeff Vavasour in a letter to Next Generation Magazine, being closer to a port of the game rather than direct emulation, using some original game assets and code but plenty of custom-made work too beyond obvious things like menus and Memory Card support. Roughly around this point in time, emulation of arcade games on console was certainly doable- Jeff Vavasour worked on many of the Atari, Williams and Midway collections worked on at the time using emulation.

#1996 dig dug arrangement monsters series#

Primarily developed, it would appear, by consistent Namco collaborators Now Production (Volumes 1, 3, 4 and Encore) and some kind of involvement by TOSE (Volumes 2 and 5), this was a six-volume series of releases (only five making it outside of Japan) from 1995 (Volume 1's release in Japan) to 1998 (Volume 5's release in Europe) gathering together a minimum of five and a maximum of seven of Namco's classic arcade games per volume, focused primarily on their '80s output. This is somewhat the case for today's subject, the Namco Museum series on the Playstation, but they're by far the most interesting and curious of the lot.

#1996 dig dug arrangement monsters ps2#

That does mean that some of the older collections, even relatively recent ones such as the PS2 / GC / Xbox sets, have their inaccuracies and flaws made far more apparent, relegating some of them from the best ports to curiosities for die-hards or for those who aren't too fussy. One thing that has definitely improved over time is the quality of them, for the most part anyway- moving from porting to more advanced emulation tech means that, when in the right hands, these rereleases can make the original games more accessible than ever and available to play without the original hardware. There was a mild surge of them in the mid-to-late '90s on the Playstation and Saturn, a huge spate of them in the Playstation 2 / Gamecube / Xbox era, then they started to wind down a bit during the HD console era and change gears- experimenting with downloadable retro rereleases, HD remasters and the rare big collection- and now individual rereleases of old games, such as Hamster's Arcade Archives series and M2's Sega Ages games, often with limited online support, seem to be the way to go, but there are still collections out there like Sega Mega Drive Classics and the excellent SNK 40th Anniversary Collection.

Retro game collections tend to go through phases of popularity. Welcome, welcome! Lucky, you are the 765th visitor to the Namco Museum. Please enjoy this completely pointless article. If you want, you can read the original over here with the proviso that it's shit. So, this bit of Let's Gaming Tat is basically the same concept as one of those gaming history articles- A Guided Tour of the Namco Museum, which was originally posted on the 16th of December 2010- but completely rewritten to be something other than a steaming pile of written dung. If you're one of the old guard, the really long-term readers, you may remember the writer used to post stuff on Retro Collect, much in the same style of the bilge we smash together here but generally shorter and even worse, somehow, but as well as reviews there'd be more gaming lore-type things. So too does this old maxim apply to Gaming Hell.

Namco Museum - even the good who feast in the Video games Valhalla were occasionally prone to warts.