Last week, it was revealed that anyone who purchases all ten games in the Namcot Collection will receive a deemake of Pac-Man Championship Edition from 2007.
M2,is the team behind that version, and director Naoki Horii shared more about the project. As it turns out. this began as a 3DS release and has been worked on for around five years.
“… Originally, this should be sold alone, right? So that as many people would play it as possible? That’s exactly the case, so we originally negotiated to port the game to Nintendo 3DS, and afterwards, we’ve been working on this for around nearly five years. When it was still just a 3DS port, we had already put a lot of effort into completely replacing the soundtrack, but for this game we’ve basically further replaced and remade many things even beyond just the soundtrack…! We worked hard to make this a Famicom game on Nintendo Switch where you can move to the rhythm of the music and the graphics.
While there are some people who knew about this project beforehand, I bet even they will still be surprised at the finished game! I really wanted to release this game no matter what, so I’m glad that we managed to do so even five years later!”
Based on listings found last week, the game is coming west as Namco Museum Archives vol 1 and 2
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