Namco Museum (Game Boy Advance)

Namco Museum (ナムコミュージアム Namuko Myūjiamu) for Game Boy Advance is a compilation of five Namco arcade games, developed by Mass Media and released in 2001 by Namco Hometek. It was released as a counterpart to the Game Boy Advance game Pac-Man Collection.
== Overview ==
The Game Boy Advance version of Namco Museum is directly based on Namco Museum 64 and Namco Museum for Sega Dreamcast. While featuring a near-identical game selection to those versions, the original Pac-Man game is not included; due to it instead being featured in the separately-released Pac-Man Collection. As such, the featured games in this compilation include:
*Ms. Pac-Man (1982)
*Galaxian (1979)
*Galaga (1981)
*Dig Dug (1982)
*Pole Position (1982)
The included games are modeled after the aforementioned Nintendo 64/Dreamcast versions; which themselves are based on the versions developed for Namco Museum Vol. 1 and Vol. 3 for the PlayStation. It is unknown if the games were ported via some form or source code, or if they were recreated from scratch. The compilation has options for changing the difficulty of the games, such as increasing/decreasing the number of lives. Hints and tips are also included for each game. Unlike some earlier handheld releases, two-player modes are not included.
Similarly to the original Game Boy/Game Boy Color versions of the game, Ms. Pac-Man can be played either in a full-screen view with rather small graphics, or across a scrolling screen with full-size graphics.
== Trivia ==
*Namco Museum was a launch title for the Game Boy Advance in the United States, launching the same day as the console's U.S. debut (June 11th, 2001).https://www.ign.com/articles/2001/04/19/namcos-us-launch-title
*This compilation was seemingly first announced under the name of "Namco Museum Advanced", alongside a Pac-Man Advanced and a Ms. Pac-Man Advanced. It seems that this set of three announced titles were consolidated into two releases instead, being Namco Museum and Pac-Man Collection.
*The title screen and menu background music is identical to the Nintendo 64 and Dreamcast Namco Museum titles, but removes the original Pac-Man theme at the beginning of the song.
*This game was the eighth best-selling game for the Game Boy Advance, selling nearly 3 million copies in the U.S. alone (as of 2007).https://web.archive.org/web/20220101032316/http://the-magicbox.com/Chart-USPlatinum.shtml Pac-Man Collection would sell in similarly high numbers.
*This version of Namco Museum was re-released on the Wii U Virtual Console in 2014. The Virtual Console release was released shortly following the cancellation of the Wii U port of Pac-Man Museum, and its release was likely for this reason.
**The Virtual Console release was delisted alongside the closure of the Nintendo eShop for Wii U in 2023.
== Gallery ==
=== Screenshots ===
Namco Museum (USA)-0.png|Ms. Pac-Man gameplay (full screen)
Namco Museum (USA)-1.png|Ms. Pac-Man gameplay (scroll)
== References ==
Category:Compilations
Category:Games
Category:Namco Games
Category:Console Games
Category:Namco Museum series