The GREATEST Retro Video Game Collection of ALL TIME! My tour of Namco Museum. 

I loved Galaga. Especially when he smashed the watermelon

Damn that was nostalgic. Had all five as a kid, can confirm the weird samurai game kicked ass.

They aren't friggin basketballs in DigDug, we been over this.

not what I expected at 11pm, but here we are. :D

Have so much more to say as an arcade head, but i'll just mention this for now: 1. Tower of Druaga's obtuse nature actually played a major role in the development of wider Japanese arcade culture. Because beating the game required you to find all these obscure secrets, and because this game in particular was so popular there, it led to players taking notes and sharing tips with each other. That communal spirit continued well into the fighting-game era, for example, where sometimes you'd see tables of frame data posted on the sides of the cabinets. It's also how they were able to obtain all these absurd score records on shmups without the luxury of savestate practice! 2. A lot of people now don't realize that Namco & Sega were the Coke & Pepsi of the Japanese arcade industry in its heyday. A lot of the more widely-remembered games in that space tend to be from Konami & Capcom, but if you look at the JP trade publications' lists of the 10 biggest arcade hits every year it feels like 3/4 of those entries came from Namco or Sega. i think this is in large part because Namco didn't get many major licenses for their arcade games like Konami & Capcom did, and a bunch of their arcade hits in Japan didn't get console ports (or only had them in Japan, as with Legend of Valkyrie).

Holy shit someone's finally talking about the best video game compilation series. I ended up obsessed with this game and bought first-print (so the classic NAMCO cases) of all of them a few years ago; they're the pride and joy of my collection.

Watching this video makes me deeply regret never picking up one of these as a kid. I had the N64 Namco Museum which is nothing more than a menu with a handful of games. I had no idea the PlayStation versions were like this. So awesome.

I HAD all five volumes of the OG namco museum! such a great compilation series... the games might be hit-or-miss but the presentation was unlike anything I'd seen at the time! makes me wish they still made games like that. Shame that encore didn't dial up the 'museum' portion even farther than vol. 5 did! I do know some of the included games actually got re-released via the 'arcade archives' line on modern systems

This is such a super chill video, I have no nostalgia for this game at all but mid 90s anything brings me back to my 9 or 10 year old self, when life probably wasn't as good as we remember but at least we weren't adults with bills and real responsibilities and the world was a much simpler place. Thanks for the video and I enjoyed your red cow interview, you seem to genuinely enjoy their content which is nice.

Every day I watch these videos about games I own and am floored by the prices. I don't look them up because I want to own and keep my games but holy crap, my Namco museum 2, 4 and 5 are worth how much?!

Congratulations on 100 videos!

This was great dude👏

When these came out I had volumes 1 and 3. At electronics boutique back then, I also saw volumes 2, 4, and 5 but I never bought them. I didn't know about namco museum encore until decades later.

With this aesthetic, I keep expecting you'll bump into a wall or any object and warp to another location, LSD Dream Emulator style

In Pac-Land, you mash the jump button to glide after jumping off the springboard.

The musems in these games remind me of kingsfeild for the PlayStation NGL

I liked the Taito Collections on PS2 more, but this is also nice.

Great video.

Dude, Pac-Land is awesome and I’ve seen that game get love from others. Definitely not a universally hated game.

Motos is actually a pretty fun game, which steals the idea from an earlier DECO game called Zeroize. It is a bit like bumper cars, but the twist is you have power ups that you can collect and save to use when you want, like a boost to your "bumping" power, or a jump.

There was actually supposed to be a PS3 remake of Metro-Cross at one point, it would have been called Aero-Cross. But it got cancelled, unfortunately.

I was picturing you watching gameplay of that samurai game you couldn’t play while drinking a Rock Rock 😂

They do support the namco weird analog controllers, but not Sonys analog controllers.

Bosconian heck yeah! I first played it on volume 1. Years later I played it on mame

Dude, I'd love to see you do that huge Sega Genesis Collection. I mean, I think it's on all the modern systems too, so I bet a used disc copy would be cheap cheap cheap.

Your assessment of volume 4 was really depressing. Assault in the arcade was a dual stick game and badass. It was worth the price of the disc for that game alone. Having Plus on it was cool for folks like me. Pac Land has a lot of deep secrets that make it fun.

The other key difference between Pac-man and Ms Pac-man is that the ghost behavior is randomized. So there are no patterns for Ms Pac that will work 100% of the time for each maze, like there are for Pac-man.

So bizarre that Rolling Thunder 1&2 were not on earlier volumes.

Damnit need more hour long content! Its great background noise while gaming! MOAR! YOU HEAR ME! MOAR!!!! and ffs get a haircut!

i went to my local game shop today and they only had 1 and 3 lmao

This Ordyne disrespect... it is hard for me to take.

If you tap X on the loading screen, the characters runs faster by every tap.

50:24 , FuriousActionGamer in the back right corner.

I agree the presentation in this collection is top notch. Otherwise the games themselves are okay.

I will say that as an arcade Ms Pac-Man snob, the game doesn’t really feel right. I was heartbroken and my desire to collect the rest of the museum ended I want to revisit this now

I liked pac mania as a kid because I could actually play it. And it has boss fights.

Bro is that GameStop on rt 31 in Clay, NY?

Mappy is fun!

I'm glad I'm not the only bafoon who got stuck on that damn springboard. I HATED Pacland when I tried it in the arcade.

Assault was a twin stick game so I'm guessing it didn't translate well to a controller. That said, I still find it awkward to play on a real cabinet.

Not an expert, but Dragon Saber is superior to spirit in every way

I totally disagree about what you said to pac mania

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