| Namco Museum Battle Collection | |
|---|---|
 North American cover art | |
| Developer(s) | Tose |
| Publisher(s) | |
| Director(s) | Yasuhiro Nishimoto[1] |
| Producer(s) | Nobutaka Nakajima[1] |
| Series | Namco Museum |
| Platform(s) | PlayStation Portable |
| Release | |
| Genre(s) | Various |
| Mode(s) | Single-player, multiplayer |
Namco Museum Battle Collection[a] is a 2005 video game compilation developed by Tose and published by Namco for the PlayStation Portable; the first Namco Museum since the PS1 series to be developed in Japan. It includes 21 games - four of these are brand-new "arrangement" remakes of older Namco games, while the rest are emulated ports of Namco arcade games from the 1970s and 1980s. These ports include an options menu that allows the player to modify the in-game settings, such as the screen orientation and number of lives. Players can send one-level demos to a friend's console via the "Game Sharing" option in the main menu.
Battle Collection was the first PlayStation Portable game to make use of the system's game sharing function. The Japanese version of the game, simply titled Namco Museum, was split into two different volumes - the second volume includes three games not found in international releases, these being Dragon Spirit and two new "arrangement" games based on Pac-Man and Motos. Battle Collection was met with a positive response from critics; reviewers applauded the large library of games, emulation quality and multiplayer features, although would heave criticism towards the Game Sharing option, which many deemed "useless", and for the game requiring a firmware update to boot. In Japan, the first game sold 79,572 copies in its first week of release.[2]
- ^ a b Namco Museum Battle Collection instruction booklet. Namco Ltd. Retrieved August 23, 2005.
- ^ "GID 416 - Namco Museum - PSP". Garaph. Retrieved 28 June 2019.
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