06-04-2005, 06:00 PM
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Magi
Join Date: Feb 2002
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Namco Releases a Slew of Old-School Arcade Hits for the PocketPC!
Namco, in conjunction with Larry Banks (a.k.a. BitBank) of HanaHo Games, has entered the Windows Mobile gaming market with official ports for Galaga, Galaxian, Pac-Man, Pac-Man, and Mappy. Galaga and Galaxian, in particular, are games that I've been pining to have on my PocketPC device for years. Now inevitably, someone is going to mention that Pac-Man was released by Microsoft for free. If you're a Pac-Man fan, you'll have to decide for yourself whether you'd rather pay for an updated version or get by on a 5-year-old port. Unfortunately, unlike their offerings for the Gameboy Advance and other platforms, Namco is selling each game separately (instead of bundled) at $14.95 each. You can trial and/or purchase each of them at PocketGear: Galaga, Galaxian, Pac-Man, Ms. Pac-Man, and Mappy. [Affiliate]
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06-04-2005, 06:52 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Aug 2006
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BTW, the trial on these is terrible... only like a minute of game play and it forces you to quit.
They also seem priced a bit too high... You can get the bundle of all of these games, plus a whole lot more for the XBOX for $20. (And aren't we supposed to be reimbursing MS for their subsidy of the XBOX console when we buy XBOX games?)
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06-04-2005, 06:53 PM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Jan 2004
Posts: 74
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Galaga, my all time favorite arcade game! Spent many an hour in the Student Union/Commons playing that! 
Lisa
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06-04-2005, 07:29 PM
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Magi
Join Date: Feb 2002
Posts: 2,386
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Originally Posted by djdj
They also seem priced a bit too high... You can get the bundle of all of these games, plus a whole lot more for the XBOX for $20. (And aren't we supposed to be reimbursing MS for their subsidy of the XBOX console when we buy XBOX games?)
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It's difficult to make an apples-to-apples comparison on the price for a console game vs a PPC game. IMO, these are great games to play while you're on the go and away from home, which obviously you can't do with a console.
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06-04-2005, 08:10 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Feb 2003
Posts: 209
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I bought Galaga - it seems like it will be great, but I can't register it - for some reason the program's registration page is faulty. I emailed both pocketgear and namco on Thursday night and still haven't heard back - but my credit cards been debited!
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06-04-2005, 08:19 PM
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Pontificator
Join Date: Aug 2006
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I agree the price seems pretty high for ports of old games. The developers didn't have to design these from the bottom up. They simply needed to make the ip work in the proper framework. I would pay 19.95 for the whole bundle, but at 14.95 each they've priced themselves out of the market.
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06-04-2005, 10:48 PM
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Pupil
Join Date: Jan 2005
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Sorry, but that price is just crazy. $4.95/game would be worth it, and $20 for them all.
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06-04-2005, 11:06 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 137
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Originally Posted by lorettaboy
Sorry, but that price is just crazy. $4.95/game would be worth it, and $20 for them all.
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That sounds more like it. Or even $25 for all would be fine.
As a software developer, I sell a product starting at $25 that has 97,000 lines of code that has taken 5 years to develop, and am doing just fine. I would think they could lower the price some.
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06-04-2005, 11:09 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 137
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Originally Posted by Ekkie Tepsupornchai
It's difficult to make an apples-to-apples comparison on the price for a console game vs a PPC game. IMO, these are great games to play while you're on the go and away from home, which obviously you can't do with a console.
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This may be true... but $75 or all five is WAY too much. It doesn't matter if you can play them on the go... the collection isn't worth THAT much more. I'd say half of that, maybe.
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06-05-2005, 01:11 AM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Nov 2007
Posts: 212
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Where can I find that free Microsoft version of Pac-Man? Will it work on a PocketPC 2003 model like the iPaq 4150? Thanks.
I agree the prices are way too much.
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