Pac-Man

22.05.1980
Critic 78/100
Users 78/100
Genre: Arcade
Pac-Man is a 1980 maze action video game developed and released by Namco for arcades. It is considered one of the classics of the medium, virtually synonymous with video games, and an icon of 1980s popular culture. Players control Pac-Man, who must eat all the dots inside an enclosed maze while avoiding four colored ghosts. Eating large flashing dots called Power Pellets causes the ghosts to temporarily turn blue, allowing Pac-Man to eat them for bonus points.

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09.08.2006

The Xbox Live version of Pac-Man is a direct port of the arcade original, but fixes the kill screen on level 256, making the game playable beyond that level. It also adds a score board.

31.12.2016

Pac-Man by GSN is a Pac-Man game that was created for, and is only playable through, GSN's Sparcade / WorldWinner mobile apps. It allowed players to play a variation of Pac-Man competitively to earn real money. The game was taken down from the service and has not been ported as of yet.

21.03.2013

The original Pac-Man game has been released free-to-play on Android and GameStick, with additional tournament levels purchasable. The game was first released as "Pac-Man + Tournaments", being later renamed to "Pac-Man".

31.12.2021

PAC-MAN LIVE STUDIO is a game published by Amazon playable on the Twitch website. It lets you play co-op multiplayer PAC-MAN with friends online and publish mazes to the community. It was created in celebration of PAC-MAN’s 40th Anniversary.

13.04.2011

Players from around the world create their own mazes, which connect with other players' mazes to form one continuous monster of a game.

10.07.2008

One of the most popular video games in arcade history! 2015 World Video Game Hall of Fame Inductee Who can forget the countless hours and quarters spent outrunning pesky ghosts and chompin’ on dots? Now you can have the same arcade excitement on your mobile devices! Guide PAC-MAN through the mazes with easy swipe controls, a MFi controller, or kick it old school with the onscreen joystick! Eat all of the dots to advance to the next stage. Go for high scores and higher levels! Gain an extra life at 10.000 points! Gobble Power Pellets to weaken ghosts temporarily and eat them up before they change back. Avoid Blinky, the leader of the ghosts, and his fellow ghosts Pinky, Inky, and Clyde, or you will lose a life. It’s game over when you lose all your lives. NEW MAZES!!! In addition to the pixel for pixel recreation of the classic original maze, the game is packed with new different mazes. Challenge your skill to beat them all! We are constantly updating the game with new maze packs that you can buy to complete your PAC-MAN collection. HINTS and TIPS!!! Insider pro-tips and hints are being made available for the first time in-game! Use these to help you become a PAC-MAN champion! FEATURES: • New tournaments • New Visual Hints and Pro-tips • New mazes for all new challenges • Play an arcade perfect port of classic PAC-MAN • Two different control modes • Three game difficulties (including the original 1980 arcade game) • Retina display support • MFi controller support This port of Pac-Man was delisted in 2013 from the digital stores.

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Pac-Man (last 3 games)

25.08.2022

With polished graphics, enhanced gameplay, and updated features, Pac-Man World Re-Pac is action/platforming fun for both experienced Pac-fans and new Pac-thusiasts the world over!

26.05.2022

A compilation of 14 Pac-Man titles. Players can earn coins by playing the games to purchase items to decorate an in-game arcade.

31.12.2021

PAC-MAN LIVE STUDIO is a game published by Amazon playable on the Twitch website. It lets you play co-op multiplayer PAC-MAN with friends online and publish mazes to the community. It was created in celebration of PAC-MAN’s 40th Anniversary.

Part of franchise:
Pac-Man (last 3 games)

08.05.2024

Pac-Man Mega Tunnel Battle: Chomp Champs is an online-only Pac-Man eating competition! Eat your way through multiple interconnected mazes using Power Pellets and a variety of Power Items to chomp the Ghosts and opponent PAC-MAN players! Be the last Pac standing at the end of each match in this 64-player Battle Royale to be the Chomp Champ!

22.03.2023

Pac-Man in a Tin is a pocket-sized tin contains the classic arcade game in all its 8-bit glory.

25.08.2022

With polished graphics, enhanced gameplay, and updated features, Pac-Man World Re-Pac is action/platforming fun for both experienced Pac-fans and new Pac-thusiasts the world over!

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13.01.1982

In 1982, a sequel to the incredibly popular Pac-Man was introduced in the form of his girlfriend, Ms. Pac-Man. This sequel continued on the "eat the dots/avoid the ghosts" gameplay of the original game, but added new features to keep the title fresh. Like her boyfriend, Ms. Pac-Man attempts to clear four various and challenging mazes filled with dots and ever-moving bouncing fruit while avoiding Inky, Blinky, Pinky and Sue, each with their own personalities and tactics. One touch from any of these ghosts means a loss of life for Ms. Pac-Man. Ms. Pac-Man can turn the tables on her pursuers by eating one of the four Energizers located within the maze. During this time, the ghosts turn blue, and Ms. Pac-Man can eat them for bonus points. The Energizer power only lasts for a limited amount of time, as the ghost's eyes float back to their center box, and regenerate to chase after Ms. Pac-Man again. Survive a few rounds of gameplay, and the player will be treated to humorous intermissions showing the growing romantic relationship between Pac-Man and Ms. Pac-Man, leading all the way up to the arrival of "Junior".

13.09.2016

The much-awaited sequel to Pac-Man Championship Edition! Featuring eye-popping 3D graphics and funky visuals! New modes include Score Attack and an Adventure mode!

20.02.1982

Dig Dug is a 1-2 player arcade game in which you have to use your shovel to dig your way through the earth. Stopping you from doing this are two monsters, called Pooka and Fygar, who will continually chase you around. The only weapon that you carry is an air pump, which you can use to inflate the monsters to the point where they explode. (if you start to inflate them but stop doing so, the monsters will get turned back to their normal selves). Furthermore, rocks are scattered throughout the earth, and you can use these rocks to squash them. If the monsters do not find you for several seconds, they will eventually get turned into ghosts, which are able to walk through the earth. They are invincible and cannot be killed. From time to time, vegetables will appear in the center, and you can get these for points.

31.12.1982

Another Pac-Man clone

26.09.1982

Super Pac-Man is a game in Namco's Pac-Man family, but instead of gobbling up dots, Pac is required to eat fruit and prizes, such as apples, bunches of bananas, doughnuts, hamburgers, fried eggs, ears of corn, sneakers, pieces of cakes, raspberries, limes, cups of coffee, mushrooms, Galaxians, bells, and shamrocks. Most of these items are hidden in passages that have locked doors at either entrance, and in order to unlock the doors, Pac needs to eat the key that is closest to the passage that he wishes to unlock. As usual, ghosts will keep chasing Pac around the maze until he has lost all his lives. However, Pac can enter the warp tunnels at either side of the maze to lose the ghosts quickly. There are two types of power pellets in the maze: green and yellow. Yellow power pellets cause ghosts to turn blue, allowing Pac to eat them for points, whereas green ones cause Pac to enlarge and will also cause the ghosts to become much thinner and wider, allowing him to fly over them. He can also break open the doors without the need of keys. The effects of the pellets, unfortunately, only last for a number of seconds. During the time that he is enlarged, a flashing star will appear besides two boxes that are located in the middle of the maze. The first box will display the current fruit or prize, and the other will display a rotating selection of them. If Pac manages to eat the star when they match there will be a large bonus score. Occasionally, after three or more stages, there will be a bonus stage where Pac automatically gets enlarged. The object of these stages is to eat everything in the maze before the time runs out and, during these stages, there will be no ghosts to pursue him.

01.09.1981

The objective of Galaga is to score as many points as possible by destroying insect-like enemies. The player controls a starfighter that can move left and right along the bottom of the playfield. Enemies swarm in groups in a formation near the top of the screen, and then begin flying down toward the player, firing bombs at the fighter. The game ends when the player's last fighter is lost, either by colliding with an enemy or one of its bullets, or by being captured. Galaga introduces a number of new features over its predecessor, Galaxian. Among these is the ability to fire more than one bullet at a time, a count of the player's "hit/miss ratio" at the end of the game, and a bonus "Challenging Stage" that occurs every few levels, in which a series of enemies fly onto and out of the screen in set patterns without firing at the player's ship or trying to crash into it. These stages award a large point bonus if the player manages to destroy every enemy. Another gameplay feature new to Galaga is the ability for enemies to capture the player's fighter. While the player is in control of just one fighter, a "boss Galaga" (which takes two shots to kill) periodically attempts to capture the fighter using a tractor beam. If successful, the fighter joins the enemy formation. If the player has more lives remaining, play resumes with a new fighter. The captured fighter flies down with the enemy that captured it, firing upon the player just like normal enemies, and can be shot and destroyed. The player can free the fighter by destroying the boss Galaga while in flight, causing the captured fighter to link up with the player's current fighter, doubling his or her firepower but also making a target twice as large. Galaga has an exploitable bug that can cause the attackers to stop firing bullets at the player, due to a coding error. In addition, similar to the famous "Split-Screen bug" in Pac-Man, a bug exists in Galaga in which the game "rolls over" from Level 255 to Level 0. Depending on the difficulty setting of the machine, this can cause the game to stall, requiring that the machine be reset or power-cycled in order to start a new game.

13.10.1983

The gameplay of Jr. Pac-Man is similar to that of its predecessors: The player controls the titular Jr. Pac-Man and scores points by eating all of the dots in the maze. Four ghosts roam the maze and attempt to capture him. The player can eat an energizer to turn the ghosts blue, making them vulnerable for a short time and allowing the player to eat them, sending their eyes back to their home base. When all the dots are cleared, a new maze is presented and gameplay resumes.

31.12.1982

A Pac-Man variant written by Dan Illowsky and published by Datamost for the Apple II.

31.12.1985

A Pac-Man clone written by John P. Shay and published by Solar Software for the Commodore 64 and Commodore 16 / PLUS 4.

16.07.1982

Joust is an arcade game developed by Williams Electronics and released in 1982. It is a platform game that features two-dimensional (2D) graphics. The player uses a button and joystick to control a knight riding a flying ostrich. The object is to progress through levels by defeating groups of enemy knights riding buzzards.

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