Namco Anthology
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Namco Anthology is a two disc series of game compilations for PlayStation
that have only been released in Japan
in 1998. They are similar to the Namco Museum
series except that the Anthology collections include games that have been developed on consoles originally. Each disc includes four games and along with each of the games, there were also updated versions of each of the games.
PlayStation
The is a 32-bit fifth-generation video game console first released by Sony Computer Entertainment in Japan on December 3, .The PlayStation was the first of the PlayStation series of consoles and handheld game devices. The PlayStation 2 was the console's successor in 2000...
that have only been released in Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
in 1998. They are similar to the Namco Museum
Namco Museum
Namco Museum refers to the series of video game compilations released by Namco for various 32-bit and above consoles, containing releases of their games from the 1980s and early 1990s...
series except that the Anthology collections include games that have been developed on consoles originally. Each disc includes four games and along with each of the games, there were also updated versions of each of the games.
Volume 1
- Star LusterStar Lusteris a first-person shooter and space combat simulator video game developed and published by Namco in 1985 only in Japan. It is an arcade-style combat-dedicated, sci-fi flight simulator that was first released for the Nintendo Famicom. That same year, Nintendo adapted the title for play in the arcade...
- Tower of Babel
- WrestleballPowerball (video game)Powerball, known in Japan as , is a video game for the Sega Genesis released in 1991 from Namco Hometek. It was re-released for the Wii's Virtual Console in Japan on February 19, 2008 and in North America on March 24, 2008 at a cost of 800 Wii Points. This version is virtually identical to the...
(It's known as Powerball in North America) - Conqueror's Continet
Volume 2
- Pac-AttackPac-Attackis a puzzle game in the vein of Columns and Dr. Mario. It was adapted from Cosmo Gang the Puzzle, an arcade game released in the previous year.Released by Namco, it features Pac-Man as the main playing pieces, with the Ghosts and blocks as obstacles....
(The updated version of Pac-Attack from this collection was included as an unlockable extra game in Pac-Man World 2Pac-Man World 2is a video game by Namco for Xbox, GameCube, PlayStation 2, Game Boy Advance, and PC released in . Like the original Pac-Man World, the player controls the character of Pac-Man in a 3D platform game.-Story:...
) - Valkyrie no Bōken: Toki no Kagi DensetsuValkyrie no Boken: Toki no Kagi Densetsuis a video game software developed and published by Namco. It was released only in Japan for the Nintendo Famicom on August 1, 1986, and for the Wii's Virtual Console on March 20, 2007.-Plot:...
- Namco Classic II (golf)
- King of KingsKing of Kings (video game)King of Kings is a strategy game for the Family Computer, released only in Japan. It is actually quite involving, with 22 different types of playable units. There is a campaign mode where you battle against a computer team led by Lucifer across four maps, and there is a multiplayer mode where up to...