Today, Jonii is taking a look at games that try to simulate the arcade experience and contextualize retro games for the modern player. They’ll be enjoying Namco Museum, Yakuza, and more!
Credits:
Written, voiced, and edited by Jonii Vee
Thumbnail art by DeezNutterButterz (
Avatar art by CarlesS_21 (
Worried Daro art by DrawnByAJ (
Additional consultation by Samuel Messner (
Sources, music list, and more:
0:00 – Intro
2:05 – Pac-Man Museum Plus
5:34 – Namco Museum (PS1)
14:39 – Other Namco Museum Games
17:01 – Yakuza 0
21:37 – Pac-Man World 2
23:36 – Street Fighter 6
26:27 – Capcom Arcade Stadium
30:21 – Patreon read
31:33 – Shenmue
35:25 – Can we contextualize console games like this?
36:51 – Animal Crossing
41:23 – Sega Genesis Classics
44:19 – Reproduction Controllers
45:12 – Arcade1Up and other cabinets
46:22 – The Tower of Druaga and arcade notebooks
51:37 – What would be the perfect Virtual Arcade?
56:00 – Outro
57:36 – Credits
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39:49 I squealed
I thank you for mentioning Namco Museum Encore, had no idea it existed until this video.
You should definitely play Retro Game Challenge for the Nintendo DS! It simulates that Retro-80s-Console-Gaming-Vibe so well. You have everthing: 80s-made-up consoles and games (with manuals), which are very good and a fake gaming-zine-series with articles about tricks & cheats. I can't recommend enough that game for the purpose of the video. It's awesome ๐
Great!
Great video! Neither of my recommendations are exactly what you're talking about, but well worth looking into. If you haven't played Retro Game Challenge on DS, it really tries to make a nostalgic collection of games with context even though the games are brand new. You play through new games as time passes, and you can look in the latest game magazines for tips, tricks, and codes. It feels charmingly authentic!
Also worth playing around with is EmuVR, a PC VR program that emulates a 90s bedroom. You can place consoles and TVs, and your ROMS appear as physical cartridges. It's pretty amazing.
If you do end up making a video of virtual gacha machines, make sure to include Work Time Fun. It was a predecessor to the Danganronpa one, with some of the same devs working on both games. You'll see why it's similar once you try it. (Spoiler: collection of random weird objects, with quirky descriptions.)
No mention of The Coin Game, which is the best of the genre? That game โ arcade simulator โ needs more attention.
Still shocked SF6 doesnt have a true arcade cabinet๐ข
Pac-Man Museum + is just not worth buying. Not with the button mapping issues and horrid input lag.
41:39 Y'know, I actually got Sonic Spinball for $5 at a flea market; it came with the box, as well as a copy of Garfield: His 9 Lives.
I guess the moral is Sonic Spinball's worth more if it's physical.
Very well done research. Love the Arcade notebook part.
Have you played arcade paradise? Its a virtual arcade that doesnt have the regular arcade games but its own versions and you develope an arcade over time with different arcade game based side quests and stuff.
I wish Sega never to their Old Games Hostage, & Release them as Standalone in Steam or PS5.
0:49
I LOVE COLUMNS!!!
I never knew about that encore volume from the original Namco Museum collection. I'm surprised it didn't have a letter T on it. "Namco" was originally spelled "Namcot" but I guess too many people didn't realize the "t" was silent.
Regarding contextualizing the old console game experience Retro Game Challenge for Nintendo DS is a fun example.
All the games are tributes to genres of NES games rather than actual classics, but they really nail the style of each game. The story mode has you doing things like reading fake game magazines for tips and cheat codes, getting a turbo controller to make a shoot em up easier, and the main characters friend excitedly talking about the next game coming out in the timeline.
On PCVR there is EmuVR, but that is more of a fun way to play roms than a game. Still there is something magical about being in a 3D bedrroom at a child's height, plugging in a console, and playing a classic game on a virtual TV.
It's nothing official, but I think EmuVR would be something you'd love. It's just a virtual bedroom with CRTs and consoles that act as emulators. I use it for the bedroom in all my videos.
Hey Jonii, did you know that it's Pokeshipping Day today? And it was Pokeshipping Week starting November 1st?
it'll haunt me forever that your game idea at the end will probably never exist, great vid!
Outstanding video. I did not know about those notebooks, that's a sick tidbit. Early days Namco Museum was peak this genre of compilation.
As an aside, I've been wanting to explore creating VR game rooms and this gave me some inspo to maybe dig a little deeper. Also, as a 12-year-old, 9:21 made me lose it laughing.
SEGA just announced on Steam that they're delisting the SEGA Genesis Classics collection, so get it while you can.
Are you Jekyll pilled, Jonii?
I feel like you might enjoy Arcade Paradise. it's not technically an arcade collection, but it's pretty similar to what you described as a dream arcade game.
wow the Sega classics segment aged like milk
pop'n music acknowledged ๐
21:00 Throw 'em all in a single release, add the Streets Of Kamurocho mini-game from a few years back, call it Like A Dragon: Arcade Collection
15:09 shocked they didn't include "Pac-Man Fever" by Buckner & Garcia there