Ok, if you've never played one of these video games, you were born in the 90's and don't know that they are. :-)

I picked up this collection of oldies but goodies around 2003 or 2004. There's 14 games plus two bonus games you can "unlock" with high scores. The games are:

Pac Man
Ms. Pac Man
Galaga
Galaxian
Dig Dug
Rally-X
Pole Position 1 & 2
Xevious
Dragon Spirit
Bosconian
Rolling Thunder
Mappy
Sky Kid

Bonus games:

Pac-Mania
Galaga 88

I did not detect anything different from these games and their arcade counterparts, like some other die-hard game reviewers did. Like the Activision Anthology, this collection also has an 80s soundtrack of different songs to listen to while you're choosing your options. My favorites are the Pac Man and Pole Position games, Galaxian, Dig Dug and Xevious. I got into Mappy and Rally-X a little, they're fun "cute type" games. I tried Bosconian and Sky Kid a couple of times. In order to play the bonus games, you must achieve a high score on their related games. The instruction booklet does NOT say what those scores are.

Now the bad stuff. You can choose options (number of lives, etc.) but going from screen to screen seems to take a long time. It's like you're saying "Come on already" waiting for the next screen. Once the game starts, you must play it through. You can't go back to the beginning, though I believe you can pause the game if the phone or doorbell rings. When the game is over, you must start from the beginning. You can't pick up from the level you were at, which is annoying as all Hell. And like the others have said, other than the two bonus games, there's no special features like interviews or anything like that. It would've been nice, but oh well.

I have three of the PS1 Namco collections, but here at least most of the "biggies" are on one disc. Despite the slow loading, this disc is mostly a "must have" if you were around in the 80s. I give it four stars. I would've given it five stars if Donkey Kong was included, but I guess Nintendo must have some exclusive-type deal with Namco about that. A good collection of retro games.

My husband and I are 50+ we were looking for some games that we used to play in the arcades when we were dating. Some of the games are very lame, and some I never heard of but it was worth buying because I love galaga and he loves dig dug. It also has pacman and mspacman. So all in all it was worth the money