Pac-Land (TurboGrafx-16)

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Description

Pac-Land is a side-scrolling 1-2 player game with a cartoony feel to it. Now equipped with arms, face, and legs, Pac must guide a fairy back to her home in Fairy Land, but this task will not be easy because Inky, Blinky, Pinky, Clyde, and Sue will pursue Pac-Man as he travels through Pac-Land. When he finally transports the fairy back to her home, Pac is given some magic shoes, which will help him get to his own home, where he will be greeted by his family: Ms. Pac-Man, Baby Pac-Man, Chomp Chomp, and Sourpuss.

There are sixteen rounds to complete, with four trips each. During each round, he can grab a power pellet, which cause ghosts to turn blue, allowing Pac-Man to eat them for points. Points are also awarded by collecting fruit that appear, like cherries and strawberries. In some rounds, Pac must use a springboard to jump over a lake. He must also make it to the end of each round before time runs out, otherwise a ghost will chase him.

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Alternate Titles

• "Video Game: Anthology - Vol. 11: Pac-Land" -- Sharp X68000 title
• "Pacland" -- ZX Spectrum title
• "Arcade Archives: Pac-Land" -- PS4 / Switch title
• "アーケードアーカイブス パックランド" -- Japanese PS4 / Switch spelling
• "パックランド" -- Japanese spelling

Part of the Following Groups

• Arcade Archives series
• Pac-Man games (licensed)
• Video Game Anthology series

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Critic Reviews

Computer and Video Games (CVG)	Sep, 1989	90 out of 100	90
Joystick (French)	Mar, 1990	84 out of 100	84
The Games Machine (UK)	Nov, 1989	82 out of 100	82
IGN	Mar 31, 2008	6.5 out of 10	65
Digital Press - Classic Video Games	Dec 04, 2003	6 out of 10	60
Classic-games.net	Jan 12, 2022	6 out of 10	60
ASM (Aktueller Software Markt)	Sep, 1989	3.8 out of 12	32
All Game Guide	1998		20

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Trivia

1001 Video Games

The Arcade version of Pac-Land appears in the book 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die by General Editor Tony Mott.

Graphics

The graphics in Pac-Land resemble the art and animation from the Saturday morning animated series of the same name, and the game's theme music is also from the animated series.

Version differences

The Fairyland level is absent from the Spectrum, Amstrad CPC and MSX ports "due to machine limitations" according to the manual.