#Galaga online namco museum free

#Galaga online namco museum free

requires two Switch units to play, but thanks to a free downloadable multiplayer only app from the Nintendo eShop only one copy of Namco Museum is needed. was originally released in Japan in 2003 and ported to the States in 2004 as a multiplayer Pac-Man game. is the one anachronistic title in the bunch, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t add value. Rudimentary elements of what would be later known as the action RPG genre can be seen here.

The Tower of Druaga is a fantasy action game where the player travels through 60 labyrinthine floors of a tower to rescue a princess. Tank Force is a multi directional overhead shooter where the players controls a (wait for it) tank. Compared to today’s standards this game is extremely tame, though it is fun to look back and see what upset the Tipper Gores of the world. The arcade port was censored when it was ported to home consoles, making changes to some enemies and weapons and giving the violence an overall toning down. This title is interesting because when it was released it was very controversial for its terrifying imagery and graphic depiction of gory violence. Splatterhouse is a horror themed beat ’em up. Sky Kid is a horizontal scrolling plane shooter, which can be more fun with a friend due to the simultaneous two player feature. The Rolling Thunders are run and gun side scrollers, with the second one adding a two player simultaneous option with much improved graphics and gameplay. Galaga has the player take control of a spaceship that shoots waves of aliens that look like bugs appearing at the top of the screen, with Galaga ’88 being the same concept but with more complexity and better graphics.

To give a quick rundown of each arcade game, Dig Dug has the player controlling a guy who digs down into the earth eliminating monsters, either by pumping them with air until they explode or having giant rocks fall and crush them. People who grew up in the age of arcades need to only look at the list of included games to determine whether or not they want this, but that is not to say these games do not provide a certain level of enjoyment that for everyone, even if they’ve never seen an arcade cabinet in the flesh. With one exception, this collection is geared towards fans of the coin operated machine era, which is par for the course with this series. The games curated for Namco Museum are Dig Dug (1982), Galaga (1981), Galaga ’88 (1987), Puc Pac-Man (1980), Pac-Man Vs. Most of these games are included in previous Namco Museum collections, but the Switch brings some “new” titles to the museum: Rolling Thunder 2, Tank Force and Splatterhouse, bringing the ESRB rating to T and breaking the the long standing tradition of having a E rating or the equivalent for whatever rating systems were used at the time. The newest collection features ten games from the ’80s and early ’90s along with Pac-Man Vs, originally released for the GameCube, for a total of eleven games. Namco Museum collections have been keeping relics of gaming in circulation for over twenty years across multiple consoles.