Trivia / Namco Museum

• Keep Circulating the Tapes:
  • Good luck trying to find a console port of an Arrangement^note The Classic Collection versions, not the Battle Collection versions. game that's not Pac-Man, Dig Dug, Galaga, or Xevious. ^note Xevious Arrangement wasn't part of the Museum games, though it DID become playable in Xevious 3D/G+ for the Playstation. The old versions of the aforementioned games themselves haven't been re-released recently, with the new Battle Collection versions getting re-released instead, which isn't good, as the Gamecube, Xbox, and Playstation 2 ports of the old versions of Pac Man Arrangement and Dig Dug Arrangement have audio issues, meaning the only way to play the games without any audio issues is to find the original arcade Classic Collection cabinets.^note Or just emulate them through MAME...
  • Thankfully the Classic Collection version of Pac-Man Arrangement was announced to be included in Pac-Man Museum+...along with the Battle Collection version. To get around the fact that they share the same name, the former was labeled the Arcade version while the latter was labeled the Console version. No luck for all the other Arrangement games, Battle or Classic, though...
  • Aside from The Tower of Druaga and Dragon Buster, none of the originally Japan-exclusive games on the compilations have been re-released on any other Namco compilation in the United States. While the original PS1 titles were once available via the Play Station Network on the PlayStation 3, they were delisted from the store in July 2021, once again making everything but volumes 1 & 3 very hard to come by for decent prices. While most of the games are available separately through Arcade Archives on the Nintendo Switch and the recent Playstation consoles, there's still no option for many of the titles on modern Xbox and PC players.
• Marth Debuted in "Smash Bros.": Seven games included in PS1 entries, like The Return of Ishtar and Genpei Tōma Den, never left Japan at all to begin with, leaving the Western audience rather confused. Thus, Late Export for You would also apply to games like this.
• No Export for You:
  • The only PlayStation title that wasn't released worldwide was Encore, likely due to how much it deviates from the museum structure of the numbered installments and the inclusion of several games that would have likely bumped the game's age rating up compared to the numbered entries. While the collection would remain exclusive to Japan, all games would find their way to other compilations that released in other countries after Encore's release.^note Motos would be re-released as part of Microsoft Revenge of Arcade and would be re-released again alongside King and Balloon for Namco Museum Battle Collection and Namco Museum Megamix, Sky Kid and Rolling Thunder appeared together on both Namco Museum 50th Anniversary and the Nintendo Switch Namco Museum, Wonder Momo and Dragon Saber would release worldwide as part of Hamster's Arcade Archives, and Rompers would debut outside of Japan in Pac-Man's Pixel Bash and Arcade1UP's Namco Legacy Edition cabinet.
  • While Remix was released in North America and Japan, the Megamix update was exclusive to the former.
• Screwed by the Lawyers: Due to licensing disputes over the game, Namco began removing Ms. Pac-Man from compilations in the 2010s.