Namco Museum

But unfortunately, you may just want to hop into that one.

And hopping into our next game, we have Namco Museum.

[upbeat music] Namco Museum, released June 11th, 2001, in North America, published by Namco and developed by Mass Media, who had a pretty interesting history.

They made a bunch of Namco and other collection games before being acquired by THQ in 2007, uh, working on some Tetris games as well as Saints Row 2.

Uh, after that, they left, uh, working as mainly a game engine company, working on Darksiders and Jak and Daxter collections, as well as Mafia III and New Tales from the Borderlands, as they've now been acquired by 2K.

I dare you.

All right, let's get back on track.

Namco Museum is, again, a corporate game with Namco right smack dab in there.

We're starting off with a Pac-Man collection.

Pac-Man Collection, featuring Pac-Man, Pac-Mania, Pac-Attack, and Pac-Man Arrangement, released July 12th, 2001 in North America exclusively for the Game Boy Advanced, published by Namco and developed by our trusty friends Mass Media, who, as you'll remember, are responsible for Namco Museum.

This was actually the next game they published after Namco Museum, StarCraft 64, a bunch of developer work now that they are owned by 2K, working on new Tales from the Borderlands and Mafia 3.

And of course, you'll recognize Pac-Man Collection as a corporate game.

This is slightly more subtle being just Pac-Man, but this is a celebration of Namco's Pac-Man franchise.

And we're moving out of the launch games a lot faster than I thought.

We have two more with Namco Museum and Konami Crazy Racers, both releasing June 11th, 2001 as our first two games.

We have Tactics Ogre, The Knight of Lodeas, our first JRPG for the system, and Kuru Kuru Kururin, which was not released in North America, but was released in the UK June 22nd, 2001 with the release of the Game Boy Advance there.

Those are the games we'll be checking out.