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Namco Museum Essentials coming to PlayStation Home in July

by Andrew Yoon on Jun 17th 2009 6:05PM

Japan's Namco Museum Essentials is crossing the pond to America's PlayStation Network this July. The downloadable app will serve as a hub for various Namco arcade games, such as Pac-man, Galaga, Dig Dug, Dragon Spirit, Xevious, and a new 1080p "re-envisioned" Xevious: Resurrection. In addition to the standard gamut of features (trophies, leaderboards), players will be able to unlock PlayStation Home rewards to proudly display in their virtual apartments.

Namco Bandai will also be launching a new destination within PlayStation Home simultaneously with the release of Museum Essentials. It will serve as the hub for all of Namco Bandai's upcoming downloadable games and will include a virtual arcade featuring a trial version of Museum Essentials. In addition to the free demo, PlayStation Home items can be unlocked for those who visit the space. All in all, it looks as though Home fans (casual and hardcore) will have a lot to look forward to.

Namco Museum Essentials

Tags: dig-dug, dragon-spirit, galaga, home, namco, namco-bandai, namco-museum-essentials, pac-man, playstation-home, psn, xevious, xevious-resurrection

Reader Comments (29)

about time

yea word.. Seriously!

But is it free to play these old school arcade games.. or they gonna charge us for this app?

theres a demo in the japan store so perhaps they will release on as well. you could still unlock items to use in your apartment in the demo as well

did they wait long enough? jeez

When is someone gonna make a photographic quality top down shooter? I know the capability is there...make it look real yo...

I have actualy had this in my home room for AGessssss now you just cant play it unless your japanese -.-

Funny thing is i still cant play them cause im actualy from Europe :(

If you downloaded the Hong Kong version - not only was in English, it works in both European and US versions of Home.

the thing that makes me sad is that i think it wont come to europe. even tho i have the HK demo one

i had the japanese one for ages at least maybe now i can get the arcade machines in my apartment to work now.

you need the hong kong version not the jap

actually all you need is namco arcade in your download list and they will work. so in other words have it in your japanese download list it will work in japanese home it already does 4 me. just it wont work in my other accounts i can have the items but cant use them

Cant wait for Manpac

heres something to slake your thirst while-U-wait

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MD_0R0tQgm4

How come more games don't link trophies with unlocks? I can see why third parties don't but you'd think Sony would be more willing to do this with a game like inFamous/KZ/MLB The Show 09 or other exclusives this year.

Singstar does it :) But yes, it is a very underused feature.

So does StreetFighter IV

and Motorstorm PR

To be honest, I forgot Home existed.

a good game or ten of pac man is always fun.

wacka wacka

Just pick up virtually the same thing on the PS2 for uber cheap -
Namco Museum 50th Anniversary

wow that actually might be worth downloading Home again.

The EA Sports Complex had already made Home worth downloading.

sweet sweet poker

Sweet, Galaga!!!

no europe? :(

HEY ANDREW YOON IS IT COMMING TO EUROPE?

meh...

Maybe it was because I didn't have the Japanese full version, but I only got - and I'm not making this up - coins and a soda when I went to the Namco Bandai space in Japan Home. I got pretty much all the clothes from the demo though. 0:

It's coming to Europe, sometime late July or early August

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