Further, it’s also got a sense of humour your very first boss battle starts with some choreographed dancing, and the game is willing to poke fun at itself. I wouldn’t quite call it chibi, though everything here is much cuter than you’d expect from a horror game.

It’s a prequel to Splatterhouse, except where that first game was ultra-violent and relatively bloody, this one is…very Japanese. The first is Splatterhouse: Wanpaku Graffiti, a beat-’em-up platformer that was previously exclusive to Japan. There are two games here, though, that really stand out. And if you like dungeon-crawling RPGs, you have a pair of options in The Tower of Druaga (which is one of the most tedious games I’ve ever played) and Dragon Buster (which seems incredible when you compare it to Tower of Druaga, since you aren’t moving at a crawl and you can actually attack enemies). There’s an interesting platformer here called Mappy that’s a fun spin on cops-and-robbers, albeit with some fairly frustrating mechanics. Likewise, Dragon Spirit: The New Legend and Xevious are by-the-numbers shmups - though even by the genre’s standards, they both seem kind of bland and barebones. Sky Kid is a 2D flying game that feels completely forgettable. Some of the other games are a little less known, but still hew pretty closely to the genres they helped birth. If you want to play them straight, you get to do that here. Like, we’re talking about games like Pac-Man, Galaxian, and Dig Dug, each of them in their most basic forms.

It’s hard to imagine anyone looking at most of these games and not having a baked-in opinion by now. Ten of the eleven games here have been around for decades, and even if you haven’t played them, you’ve almost certainly played some of their descendents. You probably don’t need me to tell you whether Namco Museum Archives Vol.

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