Namco to Release the Same Ten Games in Yet Another Compilation

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Originally Posted by The Magic Box

- Namco announced Namco Museum 50th Anniversary for PS2, Xbox, GameCube, the game is scheduled to release in US in August, and it will contain a compilation of 14 classic Namco arcade titles, including:

* Pac-Man (1980)
* Ms. Pac-Man (1981)
* Galaga (1981)
* Galaxian (1979)
* Dig Dug (1982)
* Pole Position (1982)
* Pole Position II (1983)
* Rolling Thunder (1987)
* Rally X (1980)
* Bosconian (1981)
* Dragon Spirit (1987)
* Sky Kid (1985)
* Xevious (1982)
* Mappy (1983)

- The Xbox version of Namco Museum 50th Anniversary will have Xbox Live support, allowing players to submit their high scores to the online rankings. The game is also coming to GameBoy Advance, but the GBA version will only contain 5 classic games, including: Pac-Man, Ms. Pac-Man, Galaga, Dig Dug and Rally-X

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Seriously, haven't we seen these all in various other collections? Is this just to jump on the collection bandwagon?
At least this gives us a reason to DEFINITELY not buy the XBox Live Arcade Namco collection.

LOL! This is the same fucking shit thats been on every compilation since 1996! Jeez, Namco, these games take up like 32K. This is a waste of DVD space. Id love to say that they are holding back to release more discs with more obscure games, but we all know they arent because they wouldve by now.

The new Taito collection makes me much happier than this one. That said it's an alright compilation if you don't have one of the 20 other namco collections.

The obscure Namco games were on a bunch of PS1 compilations. I don't understand this, though

Not surprising. With rare exceptions most companies treat their back catalogs like book reprints. Capcom has rereleased the NES Megaman games on PSone several times in Japan and recently took the Saturn/PSone Generations series and compiled it for a PS2 release.

It's quick money and only annoys the few people who remember more obscure releases. *-neo

Yeah, but Namco museum is far from obscure.

He was probably referring to the previously obscure games on the Museum sets. The full press release for this is a hoot, admitting that this only has two more games than the highest amount on a Musem release.

Has Rolling Thunder been released previously in a U.S. collection?

I don't think so. Only on the "copyright" collection in Japan.

I'd love to play rolling thunder 2 via Live (like thats ever gonna happen).