Videogame Review, Namco Museum Volume 1 for the PS One (Playstation, Brand New Console)
This is a pretty neat collection. I’ve purchased a PS One for my house so I wouldn’t have to put the PS2 or PS3 in so much strain, and the monthly memberships off Sony’s PS4, services, are only useful if I have the time. A disc is purchased and put away; and, I don’t necessarily pay more to store the disc. But this Namco collection is filled with several games- a couple of them are duds (Rally-X, Bosconian), but the rest are pure jewels for the PS One’s emulating abilities and my PS One controller makes a nice alternative to the clunky arcade machines. Rally-X is even worse than Radar Rat Race for the Commodore 64 and the controls get damaged from bad vehicle speeds and poor maze designs; Bosconian gives you a UFO that moves like hard butter with a knife and the controls aren’t forgiving or fashionable to my tastes, as the UFO turns and moves out of ineffectual physics as laid down on the PS One controller’s dashboard. A couple of other games (Pole Position, Toy Pop) are questionable but not bad. Pole Position tends to veer off in different directions while your vehicle is going into chunky visuals and billboards on the sides of the road occasionally come to your vision faster than you can blink your eye, and, the direction pad on the controller compares to the Atari 5200 joystick in tapping and moving the directions with little fingers; Toy Pop is more chaotic than so many 1st-person shooters and gets really violent, and, it’s fun to destroy children’s toys and move with the controller because nobody living gets hurt and there’s charming coloring book illustrations. New Rally-X has better anything in everything than the original: speeds, mazes, bonuses, all laid down rich. Pac-Man plays like the arcade for the PS One, Galaga plays like the arcade for the PS One, etc. In addition, the museum has dated somewhat and itself belongs to a museum now: a museum in a museum. It’s fun to play Toy Pop and have my wooden toy doll explode boxes of gifts with bombs and yet I’m experiencing damaged imagination from getting into such nonsense that my fun will have to go through my patience in recovery. Rally-X gives off the kind of music which makes me want to bang my head on a wall so I can improve my mind again; of course, anything which isn’t real might be another form of nature. Mastery for Bosconian is impossible. Pac-Man and Galaga are standards in the popular video games of our world. Improving the original graphics of these arcade games may be possible; however, a programmer doesn’t want to get stupid and start putting up unnecessary visuals just to pretend confidence in gaming; it’s very unattractive. There’s analog programmed into Pole Position so that the PS One controller’s direction pad functions in analog by our tapping buttons. The Playstation game runs very smoothly and the PS One console’s “reset” button works surprisingly well by pushing the button twice real quickly. I’m reviewing classic games; “classic” doesn’t always mean “good”, but, it does mean that a work of art with such a label belongs to a class whether it’s proper or improper. Some classes of video games are always improper and you’ll have to be careful about even reviewing those should you decide to pick up the craft like I do.
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