Arcade Classics Anniversary Collection Reviews

Arcade Classics Anniversary Collection is ranked in the 20th percentile of games scored on OpenCritic.
6 / 10.0
Apr 24, 2019

It also has a feature that allows you to watch playthroughs of each game and hop in when you feel like it. Even the SNES Classic has a rewind feature that lets you jump back in time to retry a particular segment. A lack of online leaderboards or any type of achievement system also lowers the replay value of the Arcade Classics Anniversary Collection. Unless you are terribly nostalgic for the games in this package or a die-hard shoot-em'-up fan, I can't fully recommend it when there are such better value propositions out there.

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6 / 10.0
Apr 29, 2019

Don’t go into it with lofty expectations, and Konami Arcade Classics Anniversary Collection will serve you just fine.

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Evan Norris
Top Critic
6 / 10
Apr 21, 2019

Arcade Classics is a satisfactory anthology for the Konami faithful.

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DottorKillex
Top Critic
5.7 / 10.0
Apr 23, 2019

We really hope that Konami will treat the upcoming Castlevania and Contra collections with much more love and attention to details, because this first outing in the retrogaming market is far from remarkable.

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May 2, 2019

The result of all of this is a highly limited package that doesn't do Konami any favours. For a company to have such an incredible heritage - including two of the most influential games of all time in Frogger and Track & Field - and then to ignore all of that for a range of early era SHMUPs (and one platformer) that few will remember is bemusing, to say the least. There is some limited appeal in there for people who are fans of the one particular genre, but even then, the package does a very barebones job of celebrating that.

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4.5 / 10.0
Apr 20, 2019

Konami's Anniversary Collection: Arcade Classics is a poor collection. There is no delicate way to say that. The work done on this project is approximate and devoid of passion and it only takes a few minutes to realize it.

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Apr 25, 2019

"Original experience shoots this collection down."

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Unscored
Jun 15, 2022

If you’re not accustomed to this type of shoot ’em up action, Typhoon can easily become absolutely infuriating. Hell, even if you know exactly what it’s doing, it can be rage-inducing. But it’s a game that is worth investing some time and effort into, because the feeling of satisfaction you get from successfully overcoming a particularly challenging encounter is absolutely wonderful — and you’ll quickly get hooked on that feeling.

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