The soundtrack was to "immerse" players into the game's atmosphere, with sounds and musical cues that hearkened back to their childhood nostalgia.

The original arcade games have been reprogrammed from scratch, and feature many of the same bugs and glitches present in their predecessors.

[1][2] The three Arrangement games feature updated visuals, gameplay, and sound, alongside the addition of two-player co-operative play.

Galaga Arrangement replaces the dual fighter mechanic from the original with a more traditional power-up system, where shooting down specifically colored Boss Galaga aliens with a capture fighter will instead transform the player into a new ship with different attacks, with their color indicating their ability; blue is a wide shot, yellow is a rapid-fire, and red fires three projectiles that can reflect off of other enemies and collide with others.

Xevious Arrangement is close to the original game, featuring new enemies, different bosses, and a wide-shot power-up that can be found by bombing specific pyramid structures on the ground.

[4] The soundtrack was to "immerse" players into the game's atmosphere, with sounds and musical cues that hearkened back to their childhood nostalgia.

[6] This version of the game is a recreation from the original arcade hardware, and features music at a slightly altered pitch because of this.

[9] They also called the included games "superb", and felt that both it and its home counterpart, Namco Museum Vol.

[11] 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.

[12] Retrospectively in 2018, Hardcore Gaming 101 found Mappy Arrangement to be the weakest of the three for failing to successfully build upon the original.

[8] 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".

[8] By contrast, Hardcore Gaming 101 commended Xevious Arrangement for its multitude of additions to the core gameplay of the original, including fixing many of its faults and bugs.