pitch because of this. The Galaga Arrangement included in Namco Museum Battle Collection (2005) and Namco Museum Virtual Arcade (2009) is not the same as the one in Vol. 1, instead being an entirely new game with mechanics and ideas borrowed from the original. Mappy Arrangement has never seen a re-release outside of arcades. In 1998, Pony Canyon released the soundtrack for Namco Classic Collection Vol. 1 under their Wonder Spirits album label, which included linear notes from the development staff and "battle cards", small cardstock cards that featured designs based on the game. Reception Edge magazine viewed Namco Classic Collection Vol. 1 as being Namco's way of garnering interest in classic game re-releases through the usage of remakes of the included games, and praised the company for their efforts in doing so. They also called the included games "superb", and felt that both it and its home counterpart, Namco Museum Vol. 1, could potentially open up a new market for both re-releases and remakes of older games. Game Machine showed interest in the collection for compiling Namco's older catalog into a modern-day machine, alongside the addition of new, "exciting" remakes of each game. The Arrangement games in particular have garnered praise, and were liked for their gameplay and presentation. In their review of Namco Museum for the GameCube, Xbox and PlayStation 2, GameSpot said that the Arrangement games included, particularly Galaga Arrangement, were fun to play, but that the originals were still the best. IGN by a stark contrast lambasted Galaga Arrangement for being what they labeled as a poor update to the original, harshly criticizing its design choices for being "terribly flawed", as well as its graphics for making projectiles and enemies hard to stop in the moving backgrounds. Retrospectively in 2018, Hardcore Gaming 101 found Mappy Arrangement to be the weakest of the three for failing to successfully build upon the original. While they liked some aspects of it, such as the hidden "real mode", they felt that it ultimately fell short compared to the other two. They wrote: "Though Namco ported many of their arranged versions to various compilations, this one stayed arcade exclusive, and for good reason – none of its additions are particularly well thought out, and is just another example of how the developers never really knew how to iterate on the original game". By contrast, Hardcore Gaming 101 commended Xevious Arrangement for