Namco Museum Volume 1 | |
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Developer(s) | Now Production |
Publisher(s) |
Namco |
Platform(s) | PlayStation |
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Genre(s) | Compilation |
Mode(s) | Single player, multi player |
Namco Museum Volume 2 | |
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Developer(s) | Namco |
Publisher(s) | Namco SCEE |
Platform(s) | PlayStation |
Release | |
Genre(s) | Compilation |
Mode(s) | Single player, multi player |
Namco Museum Volume 3 | |
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Developer(s) | Now Production |
Publisher(s) |
Namco SCEE |
Platform(s) | PlayStation |
Release | |
Genre(s) | Compilation |
Mode(s) | Single player, multi player |
Namco Museum Volume 4 | |
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Developer(s) | Namco |
Publisher(s) | Namco SCEE |
Platform(s) | PlayStation |
Release | |
Genre(s) | Compilation |
Mode(s) | Single player, multi player |
Namco Museum Volume 5 | |
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Developer(s) | Tose |
Publisher(s) | Namco SCEE |
Platform(s) | PlayStation |
Release | |
Genre(s) | Compilation |
Mode(s) | Single player, multi player |
Namco Museum Encore | |
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Developer(s) | Namco |
Publisher(s) | Namco |
Platform(s) | PlayStation |
Release |
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Genre(s) | Compilation |
Mode(s) | Single player, multi player |
Namco Museum Namco Museum 64 |
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North American Nintendo 64 cover art
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Developer(s) | Mass Media |
Publisher(s) | Namco |
Platform(s) | Dreamcast, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo 64, Wii U Virtual Console (GBA version) |
Release |
Nintendo 64
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Genre(s) | Compilation |
Mode(s) | Single player |
Namco Museum | |
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Developer(s) | Mass Media Ltd. |
Publisher(s) | Namco Ltd. |
Platform(s) | PlayStation 2, Xbox, GameCube |
Release | December 4, 2001 |
Genre(s) | Compilation |
Mode(s) | Single player, multi player |
Namco Museum: 50th Anniversary | |
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Developer(s) | Digital Eclipse |
Publisher(s) | Namco |
Platform(s) | PlayStation 2 Xbox GameCube Windows PC GBA (scaled down version) |
Release | August 30, 2005 |
Genre(s) | Compilation |
Mode(s) | Single player, multi player (Not on the scaled down GBA version) |
Namco Museum DS | |
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Developer(s) | M2 |
Publisher(s) | Namco Bandai Games |
Platform(s) | Nintendo DS |
Release | |
Genre(s) | Compilation |
Mode(s) | Single player, multi player |
Namco Museum (ナムコミュージアム Namuko Myūjiamu?) refers to the series of video game compilations released by Namco for various consoles released in the 5th generation and above, containing releases of their games (mostly arcade games) from the 1980s and early 1990s. Namco started releasing compilations with the "Namco Museum" title in 1995 and continued for a decade and a half with the last release being in 2010 with the exception of re-releases of previous compilations.
The series began on the PlayStation with the tentatively named Namco Museum Volume 1, indicating Namco's intent to make further installments of the series. The series ran until Volume 5 on the PlayStation, covering various games from the late 1980s, before moving onto the Nintendo 64, all of the major sixth generation and seventh generation consoles, Windows PC, and Nintendo Switch.
There are six different volumes available for the PlayStation, including one (Namco Museum Encore) that was released only in Japan. Each volume has five to seven games; all of these were ported from the original arcade version's source code — some of the games such as Galaga and Pac-Man allowed for an alternative screen mode to compensate for the lack of vertical monitor, whereby the scoreboard was located on the left of the screen, or rotated the image 90 degrees if the user possessed a vertical monitor or was willing to risk placing the television/monitor on its side.