8:02 I'm going to be scrutinizing every color of green in every piece of media to see if it represents wind thanks to this and your previous video now.
Your approach to viewing video games is so refreshing and the quality of your videos is stellar. Thank you for making such a wonderful watch for a lazy November afternoon. I remember feeling the way you described while playing Balder's Gate Dark Alliance 2 on my friend's older brother's Xbox during the summer of 2004. I was amazed that people could make such a thorough world with so much in it. That feeling motivated me to save up my eager kid earnings to buy an Xbox just to play that game.
Oh man, I love Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance 2 as well. 😭 I also played it on the original Xbox, except in this case, I was the older brother, haha. I think DA2 was second in impact only to the Halo games (and maybe Spider-Man 2) when we're talking about the original Xbox. Though I missed out on a lot of other big titles back then like Psychonauts, to be fair, but DA2 still rocked! Thanks so much, I'm glad you enjoyed it!!
It's absolutely a vibe! I'd highly recommend trying one of the games sometime. Though, I did pretty much give you a tour of vol 1 🤣 haha. A real Namco Museum would be awesome! Thanks for watching.
it's a shame we've lost some of these unique aesthetics when it comes to menus and stuff like this, I think I would've loved this as a kid. I'm glad it also came with a quick menu though haha
yeah, the quick menu is a great option to have lol. but that museum is so nice to walk through and I wish we still had stuff like that in the newer Namco museums
@@cmbaz1140 I have no idea how I found out about it as a kid, cuz I don't 'think' it gives you instructions on how to do it. Makes me wonder how much stuff like that gets hidden in modern games too that we miss cuz we're so used to 'knowing' all the controls. lol
What a cool concept for a game! The museum does look like great fun to explore. 🎉 Collection wise, I've heard the Atari game on Switch does a great job in teaching the history as well. All the best and congrats on 5,000 subs again!
One of my first games too, probably around the same time! Yeah, honestly I was a little nervous revisiting it but I sunk back into that familiar feeling pretty quickly. Thanks for watching!
Namco simply popped off during the PS1 generation: all the Namco Museum volumes, Pac-Man World, Klonoa, Cyber Sled, TEKKEN, and piles of more obscure titles! Pac-Man World was my introduction to Namco and the rest of their arcade titles were introduced to me through Namco Museum Megamix on Wii. I am still obsessed with arcade games (particularly Pac-Man titles) to this day! :3
I'm the same way! I'm honestly still a big Pac Man fan too, I was so hyped when he was added to Smash 4, I have a Pac Man canvas piece in my office, and I've even come around to the Pac Man Ghostly Adventures games, haha! Ridge Racer Type 4, which I showed in the video, was a KILLER PlayStation game as well! One of my favorite racers of all time. Thanks so much for watching!
I think that rapid advancement in technology and fierce competition/race to be first to do the next big thing were big factors in making it such a special time
Awesome video! When I was a kid I also used to not think about the people behind things I enjoyed as a kid be it a game, comic, cartoon or anime. That was until I played some games probably won't say they made them love games and think of the creators behind them: a forgotten gem of a polish PC point'n click adventure game series PRZYGODY REKSIA(or in english The Adventures of Reksio), the game that most people say killed the Rayman series but to me it instead made me love the Rayman series Rayman Raving Rabbids and a fan-made port of the NES Legend of Zelda. These games, alongside some gaming magazines my dad had back in the mid 2000s, a documentary about the making of (at the time) the latest Zelda game Wind Waker alongside a friend and a cousin of mine having a PS2 and Xbox360 respectively, really made an impact to me that changed me into loving video games and loving researching the creative process going on behind media I enjoy. This experience may also be the reason I don't take negative reviews or reactions to stuff seriously, because if I would've listened to that I would've never enjoyed or give a shot to a lot of stuff like games or comics that I did and ended up loving(like the aforemention Rayman Raving Rabbids game but also the anime series Fairy Tail, the PS1 Pepsiman game, Zelda 2, Shadow The Hedgehog, the entire arena fighter game genre that I don't get the hate people have for, the animated series Steven Universe or that latest Tomb Raider animated show everyone online seems to hate for some reason).
@@Sadtiric It seriously is wild!! I'd love it so much if Namco set out to make a definitive museum game, complete with a virtual museum again with today's graphics!
We had Namco Museum Vol. 3 (It's still sitting on my shelf now), and I had a very similar experience! What an incredible series. I'd love to see these versions come back in a compilation, even if it would be like the fourth Namco Museum available on modern hardware.
A modern one that includes all of the games from Namco Museum 1-5 would be sublime, but yeah honestly? I'd totally take a Namco Museum...of the Namco Museum games lol. Especially considering that, while I'm lucky that Vol 1 is so cheap, if you want to get Vol 5 for example, it's extremely expensive. Thanks so much for checking this out, I'm glad it resonated with you.
For me playing legend of legaia, Tomba and Tekken 3 on the demo discs was amazing. Legend of legaia was my first game i ever purchased. $40 and age 9 i think. So cool. I wish they would do a Rugrats reboot.
I think on demo disc 19, the one I showed in the video, there was a trailer for Legend of Legaia! I remember watching that but never got to play it. Honestly the demo discs are why I became so interested in Legend of Dragoon. One of them essentially let you play about 30 min to an hour of a section in the early game, with access to the Dragoon forms unlocked early. That got me hooked!
@humblemudgames I never had that demo disc but i ended up just buying legend of Dragoon later and then accidentally overwrote my save file right before the final disc. My brother had been grinding a whole bunch and a deleted it. I just got up and walked away. Never did finish the game. So sad haha
@GameTimeWhy I am not hearting this comment because I'm happy it happened to you, but because I feel your pain. I saved up for months and finally got the game with my own money. I made it right past Hellena Prison, so basically right where the demo begins, and my younger brother tripped over the controller cord. Tue PlayStation flew across the room and the disc drive broke. So it was YEARS before I was ever able to play it again. It was almost time for the GameCube/Xbox/PS2 gen at this point and I really wanted either a PS2 to continue playing my PS1 games, or a GameCube because I had an SNES and loved Nintendo, but my parents got an Xbox instead. Haha. Weird times 😅
@@humblemudgames haha oh man. At the time it's the worst especially if you are little and money isn't super abundant but as an adult it is kind of a fond memory. Also thanks for all you do here. I love this channel.
Oh man! This makes me imagine what you could do with a large scale modern version of a game like this, unbound by technical limitations. Developer interviews, tips and tricks from competitive players or speedrunners, you could have the actual game characters walking around the museum like a Lego Star Wars hub, and you could talk with them and ask them questions about their legacy. Online leaderboards, maybe even the ability to have friends in the museum with you!
FF7 was the first game to make me cry, but Grandia was the game that made me want to go out on my own adventures. Robotrek on the snes had such good overworld music, I would just sit and listen to it. Brainlord I FINALLY beat this year, I had been a lot closer to the end as a kid than I realized. Breath of Fire 3 was amazing, but I still haven't beaten that one. Lunar 2: Eternal Blue Complete was the first game I completed completely by myself (I think) that I'm 100% sure I actually beat lol. Monster Rancher 2 had me and my sister going through everybody's cds like lil gremlins. Jade Cocoon's somber tone fascinated me, and the post end game mode was an endless source of mystery at the time. Illusion of Gaia taught me some shit about the world. Donkey Kong Country 2 was my favorite game to play w my mom next to Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island. Resident Evil 1 scared the shit out of me cuz I wasn't allowed to play but I could still hear the groaning sounds of the zombies from my bedroom at night. FF8 helped me a lot w emotions n is my favorite FF game. FF9 was the most fun n taught me some shit too. Way of the Samurai was cool af cuz your choices actually mattered. Deus Ex was the first immersive sim game I played, which is my favorite game genre to date. Morrowind brought me into modding. VtM:Bloodlines is my favorite game and feels like home in a way I can't truly accurately describe. Planescape: Torment introduced me to philosophy and taught me a lot about nuance n morality. Everquest was my first experience w a MMO and opened my mind up to that area of the gaming space. I miss the golden era of Wolf Team. Divinity 2 Ego Draconis is still my favorite Divinity game just for the vibe. Warframe blew my damn mind w what an online mind really could be. But I gotta stop listing the games that are important to me cuz the list won't end. lol There's so many great and important games in my life and I don't remember a time when I wasn't in love w games tbh. My whole family plays and we have systems that are older than I am. lol Video games are amazing! 😄
@@Heeroneko What game out of all these would you like to see me talk about at some point next year? VtM Bloodlines? I haven't played a good handful of these.
@@humblemudgames Hmm...it's been awhile since I've heard anybody talk about Breath of Fire 3, it's a great game and so is BoF 4, which has a gorgeous art style imo....don't play the 5th entry unless you're prepared for how that game works, it broke me. lol Bloodlines would be good too, since its sequel is still in the works n (if it ever releases) you could cover Bloodlines 2 at a later time as well. oOo But I look forward to any videos you make! owo
i bought a pirate copy of Namco Museum Vol. 1 in an ongoing quest (at the time) to let my mom play New Rally-X, because she liked the music. that quest led me to discover emulation, to appreciate still-running arcade joints, and yes, looking at video games as a craft rather than just entertainment. I'm a sucker for game collections that come with these kind of features, other I like are the Williams and Atari collections by Midway that feature video interviews with developers and such, but the vibes o Namco Museum are something else. It was so depressing to see this name become synonymous with budget game compilations, I always have to specify that I mean the PS1 version of Namco Museum, y'know, the one made with care for the games it features? on a lighter note, have you ever noticed that the exhibit part of the game is like backwards Pac-Man 2? Instead of you suggesting Pac-Man what to look for, now he's the one trying to grab your attention to the things you should see.
I haven't played Pac Man 2 so I didn't make that connection, but I did read that it controlled that way while I was researching the video, and can see what you're saying! I didn't include it in the video but I had recorded a bunch of his idle animations and stuff, they really fleshed that piece out considering he's just a little guy on the bottom right corner lol. and yeah, my version of your experience was with homebrewing a Wii for the first time. That's how I really began to understand and appreciate retro games. The Virtual Console was huge for that too - I didn't even know what a TurboGrafx 16 or Neo Geo were until the VC!
I loved video games ever since I started playing them but it wasn’t until I went on a whim to play Celeste that I truly fell in love with the idea that I must try everything at least once. I always hated puzzle games, platformers, and especially games with both. Then I knew Celeste was going to have those but I decided to do it for the hell of it and I fell in love with the game and the genres.
@@Tamed_Delirium Celeste is so great -- one of the best experiences I've ever had on the Nintendo Switch. It's always awesome when you finally decide to try something in a genre you don't usually like and it still manages to win you over. I never really got into visual novels before, but Digimon Survive won me over this year.
8:02 I'm going to be scrutinizing every color of green in every piece of media to see if it represents wind thanks to this and your previous video now.
you're welcome 🍃💚
Your approach to viewing video games is so refreshing and the quality of your videos is stellar. Thank you for making such a wonderful watch for a lazy November afternoon.
I remember feeling the way you described while playing Balder's Gate Dark Alliance 2 on my friend's older brother's Xbox during the summer of 2004. I was amazed that people could make such a thorough world with so much in it.
That feeling motivated me to save up my eager kid earnings to buy an Xbox just to play that game.
Oh man, I love Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance 2 as well. 😭 I also played it on the original Xbox, except in this case, I was the older brother, haha. I think DA2 was second in impact only to the Halo games (and maybe Spider-Man 2) when we're talking about the original Xbox.
Though I missed out on a lot of other big titles back then like Psychonauts, to be fair, but DA2 still rocked! Thanks so much, I'm glad you enjoyed it!!
Nice video, super chill - definitely made me want to wander around a real namco museum listening to relaxing tunes
It's absolutely a vibe! I'd highly recommend trying one of the games sometime. Though, I did pretty much give you a tour of vol 1 🤣 haha. A real Namco Museum would be awesome! Thanks for watching.
it's a shame we've lost some of these unique aesthetics when it comes to menus and stuff like this, I think I would've loved this as a kid. I'm glad it also came with a quick menu though haha
yeah, the quick menu is a great option to have lol. but that museum is so nice to walk through and I wish we still had stuff like that in the newer Namco museums
Playstation Underground demo disks were great. Especially when I learned about the 'secret' demos on the backs of certain demo icons.
I didn't know there were secret demos! I wonder if I missed out on any as a kid 🤔
Wait ?...WHAT?
@@humblemudgames Yeah, if I remember right, you hit L1/R1 and it 'flips' the demo around to the b side.
@@cmbaz1140 I have no idea how I found out about it as a kid, cuz I don't 'think' it gives you instructions on how to do it. Makes me wonder how much stuff like that gets hidden in modern games too that we miss cuz we're so used to 'knowing' all the controls. lol
What a cool concept for a game! The museum does look like great fun to explore. 🎉 Collection wise, I've heard the Atari game on Switch does a great job in teaching the history as well. All the best and congrats on 5,000 subs again!
It's so fun! Definitely worth giving it a shot if you can! I'll look into the Atari collection, thanks so much!
This was the first game I ever got for PlayStation back in 1998. I had forgotten how cool the 3d museum really was.
One of my first games too, probably around the same time! Yeah, honestly I was a little nervous revisiting it but I sunk back into that familiar feeling pretty quickly. Thanks for watching!
Namco simply popped off during the PS1 generation: all the Namco Museum volumes, Pac-Man World, Klonoa, Cyber Sled, TEKKEN, and piles of more obscure titles! Pac-Man World was my introduction to Namco and the rest of their arcade titles were introduced to me through Namco Museum Megamix on Wii. I am still obsessed with arcade games (particularly Pac-Man titles) to this day! :3
I'm the same way! I'm honestly still a big Pac Man fan too, I was so hyped when he was added to Smash 4, I have a Pac Man canvas piece in my office, and I've even come around to the Pac Man Ghostly Adventures games, haha! Ridge Racer Type 4, which I showed in the video, was a KILLER PlayStation game as well! One of my favorite racers of all time. Thanks so much for watching!
The 90s and early 2000s were really a magical time for gamers...
I think that rapid advancement in technology and fierce competition/race to be first to do the next big thing were big factors in making it such a special time
This compilation is how I first played Rally-X as a small child. Seeing the car crash with a visible 💥BANG!💥 was so hilarious to me.
Awesome video! When I was a kid I also used to not think about the people behind things I enjoyed as a kid be it a game, comic, cartoon or anime. That was until I played some games probably won't say they made them love games and think of the creators behind them: a forgotten gem of a polish PC point'n click adventure game series PRZYGODY REKSIA(or in english The Adventures of Reksio), the game that most people say killed the Rayman series but to me it instead made me love the Rayman series Rayman Raving Rabbids and a fan-made port of the NES Legend of Zelda.
These games, alongside some gaming magazines my dad had back in the mid 2000s, a documentary about the making of (at the time) the latest Zelda game Wind Waker alongside a friend and a cousin of mine having a PS2 and Xbox360 respectively, really made an impact to me that changed me into loving video games and loving researching the creative process going on behind media I enjoy. This experience may also be the reason I don't take negative reviews or reactions to stuff seriously, because if I would've listened to that I would've never enjoyed or give a shot to a lot of stuff like games or comics that I did and ended up loving(like the aforemention Rayman Raving Rabbids game but also the anime series Fairy Tail, the PS1 Pepsiman game, Zelda 2, Shadow The Hedgehog, the entire arena fighter game genre that I don't get the hate people have for, the animated series Steven Universe or that latest Tomb Raider animated show everyone online seems to hate for some reason).
sweet vid man have a good thanksgiving bro
Thank you so much, I hope the same for you!!
Just found your channel-love it
This is the one I have! This game was life changing for me as a teen! 💚
YES! I kinda want to try all the Namco Museum games now 😭
@humblemudgames Azurai and I were just talking about these games a few weeks ago! Lol, it's funny how parallel our paths have become! 😆 💚
@@Sadtiric It seriously is wild!! I'd love it so much if Namco set out to make a definitive museum game, complete with a virtual museum again with today's graphics!
@humblemudgames They could even make a museum game of the past museum games, and I'd be down! 😆
@@Sadtiric Namco Museum Museum would go so hard!!
We had Namco Museum Vol. 3 (It's still sitting on my shelf now), and I had a very similar experience! What an incredible series. I'd love to see these versions come back in a compilation, even if it would be like the fourth Namco Museum available on modern hardware.
A modern one that includes all of the games from Namco Museum 1-5 would be sublime, but yeah honestly? I'd totally take a Namco Museum...of the Namco Museum games lol. Especially considering that, while I'm lucky that Vol 1 is so cheap, if you want to get Vol 5 for example, it's extremely expensive. Thanks so much for checking this out, I'm glad it resonated with you.
For me playing legend of legaia, Tomba and Tekken 3 on the demo discs was amazing. Legend of legaia was my first game i ever purchased. $40 and age 9 i think. So cool. I wish they would do a Rugrats reboot.
I think on demo disc 19, the one I showed in the video, there was a trailer for Legend of Legaia! I remember watching that but never got to play it. Honestly the demo discs are why I became so interested in Legend of Dragoon. One of them essentially let you play about 30 min to an hour of a section in the early game, with access to the Dragoon forms unlocked early. That got me hooked!
@humblemudgames I never had that demo disc but i ended up just buying legend of Dragoon later and then accidentally overwrote my save file right before the final disc. My brother had been grinding a whole bunch and a deleted it. I just got up and walked away. Never did finish the game. So sad haha
@GameTimeWhy I am not hearting this comment because I'm happy it happened to you, but because I feel your pain. I saved up for months and finally got the game with my own money. I made it right past Hellena Prison, so basically right where the demo begins, and my younger brother tripped over the controller cord. Tue PlayStation flew across the room and the disc drive broke. So it was YEARS before I was ever able to play it again. It was almost time for the GameCube/Xbox/PS2 gen at this point and I really wanted either a PS2 to continue playing my PS1 games, or a GameCube because I had an SNES and loved Nintendo, but my parents got an Xbox instead. Haha. Weird times 😅
@@humblemudgames haha oh man. At the time it's the worst especially if you are little and money isn't super abundant but as an adult it is kind of a fond memory.
Also thanks for all you do here. I love this channel.
Oh man! This makes me imagine what you could do with a large scale modern version of a game like this, unbound by technical limitations.
Developer interviews, tips and tricks from competitive players or speedrunners, you could have the actual game characters walking around the museum like a Lego Star Wars hub, and you could talk with them and ask them questions about their legacy.
Online leaderboards, maybe even the ability to have friends in the museum with you!
Oh man, this would be a DREAM.
Nice vid, bud.
thanks!
I played the shit out of this game.
It's a classic
Surprise upload?!
Yessir 🫡
I was going to say we need Land Before Time games but it turns out there already are a bunch
Are there?? I wonder if they're good. I could see them having a vibe like the SNES/Genesis Disney games like Lion King.
@@humblemudgames they are mostly ps1, gameboy and GBA games. And a bunch of educational ones on PC.
FF7 was the first game to make me cry, but Grandia was the game that made me want to go out on my own adventures. Robotrek on the snes had such good overworld music, I would just sit and listen to it. Brainlord I FINALLY beat this year, I had been a lot closer to the end as a kid than I realized. Breath of Fire 3 was amazing, but I still haven't beaten that one. Lunar 2: Eternal Blue Complete was the first game I completed completely by myself (I think) that I'm 100% sure I actually beat lol. Monster Rancher 2 had me and my sister going through everybody's cds like lil gremlins. Jade Cocoon's somber tone fascinated me, and the post end game mode was an endless source of mystery at the time. Illusion of Gaia taught me some shit about the world. Donkey Kong Country 2 was my favorite game to play w my mom next to Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island. Resident Evil 1 scared the shit out of me cuz I wasn't allowed to play but I could still hear the groaning sounds of the zombies from my bedroom at night. FF8 helped me a lot w emotions n is my favorite FF game. FF9 was the most fun n taught me some shit too. Way of the Samurai was cool af cuz your choices actually mattered. Deus Ex was the first immersive sim game I played, which is my favorite game genre to date. Morrowind brought me into modding. VtM:Bloodlines is my favorite game and feels like home in a way I can't truly accurately describe. Planescape: Torment introduced me to philosophy and taught me a lot about nuance n morality. Everquest was my first experience w a MMO and opened my mind up to that area of the gaming space. I miss the golden era of Wolf Team. Divinity 2 Ego Draconis is still my favorite Divinity game just for the vibe. Warframe blew my damn mind w what an online mind really could be. But I gotta stop listing the games that are important to me cuz the list won't end. lol There's so many great and important games in my life and I don't remember a time when I wasn't in love w games tbh. My whole family plays and we have systems that are older than I am. lol Video games are amazing! 😄
@@Heeroneko What game out of all these would you like to see me talk about at some point next year? VtM Bloodlines?
I haven't played a good handful of these.
@@humblemudgames Hmm...it's been awhile since I've heard anybody talk about Breath of Fire 3, it's a great game and so is BoF 4, which has a gorgeous art style imo....don't play the 5th entry unless you're prepared for how that game works, it broke me. lol Bloodlines would be good too, since its sequel is still in the works n (if it ever releases) you could cover Bloodlines 2 at a later time as well. oOo But I look forward to any videos you make! owo
Oh my god this would be insane in vr
RIGHT
i bought a pirate copy of Namco Museum Vol. 1 in an ongoing quest (at the time) to let my mom play New Rally-X, because she liked the music. that quest led me to discover emulation, to appreciate still-running arcade joints, and yes, looking at video games as a craft rather than just entertainment. I'm a sucker for game collections that come with these kind of features, other I like are the Williams and Atari collections by Midway that feature video interviews with developers and such, but the vibes o Namco Museum are something else. It was so depressing to see this name become synonymous with budget game compilations, I always have to specify that I mean the PS1 version of Namco Museum, y'know, the one made with care for the games it features?
on a lighter note, have you ever noticed that the exhibit part of the game is like backwards Pac-Man 2? Instead of you suggesting Pac-Man what to look for, now he's the one trying to grab your attention to the things you should see.
I haven't played Pac Man 2 so I didn't make that connection, but I did read that it controlled that way while I was researching the video, and can see what you're saying! I didn't include it in the video but I had recorded a bunch of his idle animations and stuff, they really fleshed that piece out considering he's just a little guy on the bottom right corner lol.
and yeah, my version of your experience was with homebrewing a Wii for the first time. That's how I really began to understand and appreciate retro games. The Virtual Console was huge for that too - I didn't even know what a TurboGrafx 16 or Neo Geo were until the VC!
What game made you love games?
I loved video games ever since I started playing them but it wasn’t until I went on a whim to play Celeste that I truly fell in love with the idea that I must try everything at least once. I always hated puzzle games, platformers, and especially games with both. Then I knew Celeste was going to have those but I decided to do it for the hell of it and I fell in love with the game and the genres.
@@Tamed_Delirium Celeste is so great -- one of the best experiences I've ever had on the Nintendo Switch. It's always awesome when you finally decide to try something in a genre you don't usually like and it still manages to win you over. I never really got into visual novels before, but Digimon Survive won me over this year.
When I was a kid I thought games were made by angels or aliens
@@trapez77 idk if you're being sarcastic or not but it really kind of felt like that!
@ I’m dead serious. I didn’t think humans were capable of something that advanced. It seemed like magic/sorcery
@trapez77 Oh yeah, absolutely! Definitely felt like some kind of magic
Is this a Ceric Artman production?
I'm not sure who that is
“Identvie”…. Is this AI? Something’s wrong here
?
The word you're looking for is "interactive", not "interactable".
Yeah, I noticed I said that after I uploaded it.