Players have a couple different breath-weapon attacks and can also drop fiery bombs which I can only assume is dragon scat. Flying through vertical levels, Dragon Spirit is a shooter that does little to improve the genre's conventions. This game has players take on the role of a knight that can transmute himself into a dragon. I'm fairly confident in stating that the vast majority of players have likely never played Dragon Spirit. While Pac-Man, Dig Dug, Xevious, and Galaga are games nearly every gamer knows inside and out, there are two other games included in this compilation that are fresh. While this only happened once during testing, it hints at possible stability issues. That being said, I did experience a glitch while playing Pac-Man that I never have experienced in my 30+ years: I floated through a ghost unscathed whilst cornered in a phantasm sandwich. For everyone else, gameplay is exactly what you've grown up with, as the code has been ripped directly from the arcade and has been ported to the PS3. For those of you who haven't played these games before, you probably just learned how to read. As such, they've lost some of their luster, if not their cachet. That being said, these games have re-released countless times for home consoles over the last couple of decades. Without a doubt, Pac-Man, Dig Dug, Xevious, and Galaga are titles all gamers can agree are of the highest quality. The games included in this compilation are Pac-Man, Dig Dug, Xevious, Dragon Spirit, Galaga, and the remake of Xevious: Xevious Resurrection. Still, for only $9.99, old-school gaming aficionados will get their money's worth. Effectively, what gamers get with this download are four shooters (three of which feature little more than cosmetic changes), Pac-Man, and Dig Dug. While we love all these games and are glad to have them in our PS3 hard drive, we're not sure this game is as essential as the title seems to suggest. Namco Museum Essentials brings together five classic arcade titles and remakes one of them with quality HD visuals for the PS3.

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