Description

One of the most popular and influential games of the 1980's, Pac-Man stars a little, yellow dot-muncher who works his way around to clear a maze of the various dots and fruit which inhabit the board.

Pac-Man's goal is continually challenged by four ghosts: The shy blue ghost Bashful (Inky), the trailing red ghost Shadow (Blinky), the fast pink ghost Speedy (Pinky), and the forgetful orange ghost Pokey (Clyde). One touch from any of these ghosts means a loss of life for Pac-Man.

Pac-Man can turn the tables on his pursuers by eating of the four Energizers located within the maze. During this time, the ghosts turn blue, and Pac-Man can eat them for bonus points. This only lasts for a limited amount of time, as the ghost's eyes float back to their center box, and regenerate to chase after Pac-Man again.

Survive a few rounds of gameplay, and be treated to humorous intermissions between Pac-Man and the ghosts.

Alternate Titles

  • "Puck-Man" -- original Japanese version
  • "NES Classics: Pac-Man" -- European GBA title
  • "パックマン" -- Japanese spelling

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User Reviews

Hey look everybody, it's the Anti-Pac-Man Atari 2600 Black Wolf (37242)
How To Make A Great Game... Anything But. Atari 2600 Guy Chapman (1743)
It Sucks that it's based on Pac-man, but it's not a bad game. Atari 2600 JohnLennon224 (14)
A cool port to the 5200, but it's too slow. Atari 5200 Joel Mitchell (3)
Terrible Version of Pac Man Xbox 360 Cody Cooper (6)
A decent game on it's own, but needs work. Atari 2600 Joel Mitchell (8)
Retro game with a central character and simple objective NES Black Wolf (37242)
One of the best games of the generation. PC Booter Jim Fun (222)

The Press Says

The Video Game Critic Atari 5200 May 26, 2003 A- 91
Xboxdynasty (XD) Xbox 360 Aug 18, 2006 8.1 out of 10 81
TalkXbox Xbox 360 Aug 09, 2006 80 out of 100 80
Mean Machines Game Boy Jan, 1991 80 out of 100 80
Retroage Atari 2600 Nov 29, 2009 7.6 out of 10 76
GotNext Xbox 360 Sep 05, 2006 3.5 Stars3.5 Stars3.5 Stars3.5 Stars3.5 Stars 70
GameSpot Xbox 360 Aug 09, 2006 6.3 out of 10 63
IGN Game Boy Advance Jun 04, 2004 5 out of 10 50
Game Shark Xbox 360 Aug 16, 2006 D+ 33
Digital Press - Classic Video Games Atari 2600 Dec 10, 2003 3 out of 10 30

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Trivia

As the story goes, one of the Namco's designers (Namco being the company that created the original arcade version) ordered a whole pizza for himself. After eating one of the slices, he looked at the pizza again. And thus, Pac-Man was born.


This entry was contributed by Corn Popper (66101), Trixter Bronze Star Contributing Member (8833), PCGamer77 Bronze Star Contributing Member (3039), Sciere Bronze Star Contributing Member (139681), Kabushi (60804), Martin Smith (63983), Pseudo_Intellectual (36852), Terok Nor (12124), Servo (52825), Игги Друге (31962), Ben K Bronze Star Contributing Member (21798), 雷堂承太朗 -djsw- (19189) and Jim Fun (222)
 

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