NAMCO MUSEUM ARCHIVES Vol 2

I hope whoever made the controls for NES Pac-Land got fired, re-hired somewhere else, then fired again.

Just the NES games with a really poor emulator. Skip this one.

Like Volume 1, NAMCO MUSEUM ARCHIVES Vol 2 are NES ports of Namco games. Though, this collection of games weren't as popular in the Arcades where applicable. Which I think actually works a bit in the favor of it. Galaga is probably the most famous of Volume 2. The NES version isn't bad, though; I feel like maybe it plays a little slower than the arcade making it easier. Battle City is probably my personal favorite. It's a single screen top down tank game. Pac-Land is one the earliest scrolling 2D platformers. Which eventually the NES made famous. Being one of the first, it does have a primitive feel. I was never much for such platformers when done well. So this game is pretty rough for me to play. Dig Dug II has some interesting ideas to change up the Dig Dug formula. However, its controls feel rougher and knowing exactly which land mass is going to fall away feels a tad too much like trial and error. Ultimately, it is no where near as fun as the first game. Super Xevious isn't too bad. I played a lot of Xevious on the Atari 7800. Which resulted in me really enjoying shumps. Though today, I doubt this game is going hook new players to the genre. Mappy-Land feels like Pac-Land…

This is a solid collection of Famicom titles and a convenient way to play them legally without a subscription or original hardware. Its demake of [i]Gaplus[/i] does, in fact, have the Hypership from the arcade original obtainable in the same way, although the timing to crash into the King to do so is trickier than in the arcade version in my experience. That said, it's overall just as fun and frantic as the arcade version, so it's a good way to experience the game if you haven't already or want to do so again.

need more of the nintendo games of my youth! also the xevious games are cool, but not as cool as the arcade one was, i miss the upgrades

As I said with Volume 1 - This is a great collection of classics. These are 8-bit NES versions of the games and not the arcade originals, just so people know before diving in. While I find this volume to be weaker than the first, it is still full of enjoyable titles that are worth owning if you're a collector of games with historical significance. There's a lot of bang for your buck here (especially if grabbed during a sale).