Galaga, pronounced, is a Japanese arcade game developed and published by Namco Japan and by Midway in North America in 1981. It is the sequel to 1979's Galaxian. The gameplay of Galaga puts the player in control of a spacecraft which is situated at the bottom of the screen, with enemy aliens arriving in formation at the beginning of a stage, either trying to destroy, collide with, or capture the spaceship, with the player progressing every time alien forces are vanquished.
Dig Dug is a maze arcade game developed and released by Namco in 1982. The player controls the titular character, who must eliminate all of the enemies on the screen by pumping them up with air until they explode or causing rocks to fall on them. The game was published by Atari, Inc. in North America and Europe. It runs on Namco Galaga arcade hardware.
In video game parlance, a multicart is a cartridge that contains more than one game. Typically, the separate games are available individually for purchase or were previously available individually. For this reason, collections, anthologies, and compilations are considered multicarts. The desirability of the multicart to consumers is that it provides better value, greater convenience, and more portability than the separate games would provide. The advantage to developers is that it allows two or more smaller games to be sold together for the price of one larger game, and provides an opportunity to repackage and sell older games one more time, often with little or no changes.
Mappy is an arcade game by Namco. First introduced in 1983, it was distributed in the United States by Bally/Midway. Mappy is a side-scrolling platform game that features a mouse main character and cat antagonists. Mappy runs on Namco Super Pac-Man hardware, modified to support horizontal scrolling. The name "Mappy" is likely derived from mappo, a Japanese slang term for a policeman. The game has been re-released as part of several Namco arcade compilations; it spawned a handful of sequels and a 2013 animated web series developed by cartoonists Scott Kurtz and Kris Straub.
Namco Museum is a series of video game compilations released by Namco for various consoles released in the 5th generation and above, containing releases primarily from their arcade games from the late 1970s, 1980s, and early 1990s. Namco started releasing compilations with the Namco Museum title in 1995, and continues as of 2018.
Dig Dug II, subtitled Trouble in Paradise for Bandai's American NES port, is the arcade sequel to Dig Dug, released by Namco in 1985. It runs on Namco Super Pac-Man hardware but with a video system like that used in Mappy, The Tower of Druaga and Grobda. The only home version of the game was for the NES, which Bandai released in Japan on April 18, 1986 and in North America during 1989.
Microsoft Arcade is a series of classic arcade game compilations.
The Namco Galaga is an 8-bit arcade game system board which was first used by Namco in 1981; the fourth and fifth titles to use it, Xevious and its 1984 update Super Xevious, were also modified to support a 129-color palette.
The Namco Super Pac-Man is an 8-bit arcade system board that was initially used by Namco in 1982; it was the first board from the company that used a Motorola M6809 processor instead of a Zilog Z80.
Namco Museum Remix, known in Japan as Minna de Asobou! Namco Carnival, is a video game compilation released for the Wii by Namco Bandai Games in 2007. The compilation includes nine Namco arcade games and five "remix" games made specifically for this compilation.
Namco Museum DS is a classic arcade game compilation published by Namco Bandai Games. It features Xevious, Galaga, Galaxian, Pac-Man, Dig Dug II, The Tower of Druaga, and Mappy. Super Xevious and the old version of Dig Dug II are also included as secret games.
Galaga Legions is a 2008 twin-stick shooter video game developed and released by Namco Bandai Games for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. It is the twelfth game in the Galaxian series, and the third developed for home platforms. The player controls a starship, the AEf-7 "Blowneedle", in its efforts to wipe out the Galaga armada. The objective of the game is to clear each of the five stages as quick as possible. Stages have a heavy emphasis on puzzle solving and chain reactions, which are necessary to clear out enemy formations. The Blowneedle has a pair of satellites at its disposal, and can place them anywhere on the screen to fend off enemies.
A Namco Plug & Play Game is any of a series of models dedicated to games by Namco which make up a subset of Jakks Pacific's Plug It In & Play TV Games plug & play game system lineup with the exception of the newest one called Pac-Man Connect and Play which was handled by Bandai America instead of Jakks Pacific. They should not be confused with the Japan-only Namco Nostalgia pair of plug & play games directly from Namco Bandai Games.
Pac-Man & Galaga Dimensions is a compilation of games from the Pac-Man and Galaga franchises for the Nintendo 3DS, by Namco Bandai Games. It includes six games, two of which are developed specifically for the Nintendo 3DS for the compilation. The collection also includes a trailer for the 3D Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures television show by Avi Arad.
Pac-Man Museum is a compilation of Pac-Man games available on Xbox Live Arcade, PlayStation Network and Windows PC, and published by Bandai Namco Games under the Namco brand name. It was released on February 26, 2014, but was released on Steam and the North American PlayStation Store a day earlier. It was released in Japan for PS3 and Xbox 360 on June 25, 2014. A version was announced for the Nintendo eShop, to be released on Nintendo 3DS and Wii U, but was cancelled due to "delayed development".
Disk NG is a series of two Namco video game compilations for the MSX released only in Japan. Both compilations have five ports of Namco arcade games and an exclusive game.
Arcade Game Series is a series of downloadable Namco arcade games by Bandai Namco Enterainment for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Steam.
