If anything, it's like a distant 2D relative of Smash Bros.
Since each stage can be pretty big, the camera scales out where appropriate, using that funky scaling technology that was all the rage back in the 90s, although this does make screenshots sometimes difficult to discern afterwards. Each player has a life bar with multiple colours- starting at green, then down to yellow, and finally to red, which leads to death when emptied. Two people enter an volatile arena, you hear the cry of, "KILL YOUR ENEMY BY ANY MEANS!" and then only one leaves. Released in arcades in 1994, The Outfoxies is an all-out slugfest. I can even excuse the lack of a port of Numan Athletics Tank Force uh, Tinkle Pit.īut leaving The Outfoxies in the arcades? Unforgivable. I've come to terms with the fact that Lucky & Wild will never be brought home. Crap like Finest Hour and Exvania can stay in the arcades (even if Finest Hour is out on the Virtual Console Arcade, for inexplicable reasons) but some of the better games, now that's different. When you see what's actually covered by the Museum series, you can see that while it covers the classics and a few choice obscurities here and there, it's by no means a complete discography. Where's the 90s love? Hell, the most depressing thing about the PS1 Namco Museum games (aside from introducing me to the torment that is The Tower of Druaga) is the 'complete Namco arcade games' list included in each volume. Then again, I would say that- my love for 90s gaming is well documentedĮven the original Playstation Namco Museum collections didn't cover this period of time, and they had games like Assault and Gempei Toumaden/The Genji & Heike Clans included. As such, the 90s is very poorly represented, which is a shame, because, well, to me, the 90s were the best era for arcade gaming. There are only so many conversions of Pac-Man that one man needs! They sometimes include a token cult classic, like the absolutely bitchin' Cutie Q in the recent Namco Museum Remix, but it's still amongst the same endlessly repeated games like Galaxian and Mappy. Sure, you may think that the Namco Museum series is here to cover this, but the recent ones are just regurgitating the same (still classic) games. There seems to be this very strange gap, around the mid-90's, where a lot of Namco games simply weren't brought home, like Nebulasray and Tinkle Pit.
Sure, they're the producers of such classic arcade games as Pac-Man and Galaga, but they can also be the worst assholes in the world when it comes to home conversions. The Outfoxies - KILL YOUR ENEMY BY ANY MEANS!
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