Namco Museum 64 - Longplay
72Released in 1999, Namco Museum 64 was the first Namco Museum to be released after the conclusion of their six-part series for the Playstation. It is the first Museum to rehash games, and also the first one to break from the original virtual museum format for a much simpler game selection menu. A near-identical version was also released for the Sega Dreamcast, and a downscaled version would be ported to the Game Boy Advance in 2001 (excluding the original Pac-Man; that was reserved for Pac-Man Collection).
From this point onward, the Namco Museums would ditch most of, if not all of, the trivia and artwork associated with each game as bonus content, and just leave you with the games and some settings to play around with. You are also provided a small set of tips for each game, and other than that... that's basically it in terms of content. This sorta set a precedent for future Namco Museums to come, as the big hits would be the game lists themselves and not all the bonus content.
The games on this compilation are as follows:
0:00:00 - Bootup
0:00:41 - Pac-Man (1980)
0:09:31 - Ms. Pac-Man (1981)
0:21:18 - Galaga (1981)
0:40:31 - Galaxian (1979)
0:49:09 - Pole Position (1982)
0:53:01 - Dig Dug (1982)
Personally, I'm not a huge fan of this collection. The game selection is generic at best, and I'm not a huge fan of Ms. Pac-Man or Pole Position. The emulation quality of each game is trash: They are very clearly based on the ports from Namco Museum Vol. 1 and Vol. 3, but somehow they made them even worse for most games (my rushed analysis: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lcTu0Su4ZxoQB8qoWTwlAqQynm5jPqcW5iYezhmh_Aw/edit?usp=sharing). You also can't save high scores unless you have a Controller Pak for your Nintendo 64... which I don't. So, all progress made on this video was worthless. At least I got it all on video before it got deleted. I will say that the Nintendo 64 controller actually isn't that bad for most of these games. The stick works out much better than the d-pad, and button mashing is pretty easy (though maybe that's my experience with speedrunning SM64 talking).
I would really only recommend this collection if you have a yearning to collect Namco Museums, or even just Namco arcade games in general. For the N64, it's alright, but there are many better options to get these games, and many other compilations you can get them on, almost all of them way better than this.
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