Pac man related games

This odd sounding name odd only because it's not English of course is symbolic of the noise made when one opens and closes their mouth rapidly. After a short 18 months, the game was complete and launched as "Puck Man". Strangely enough, it was NOT a big success after launch.

Namco and Iwatani may have developed "Puck Man" in Japan, but it was Midway who marketed to the United States and saw sales fly through the roof. Nobody had ever seen a game like it before.

Renamed to Pac-Man in the US, it became an instant hit. It caught everyone by surprise and even the so called experts overlooked Pac-Man while reviewing arcade games don't the experts always do things like that?

Keep in mind that we're talking Arcades here not consoles. Atari came after this. Original Pacman Commercial for Atari When Atari came along and ported the game into its system it expected more big results. It got them but only sort of. Seven million copies were sold but unfortunately Atari produced twelve million and ended up taking a loss in the end. Despite Atari's loss, Pacman itself was a huge success.

Check out the American commercial below. Pacman Pasta Commercial Pacman's success naturally led to merchandise such as toys, t-shirts, plush dolls, and of course foods. What's that you say?! You've never tasted Pacman Pasta?

I'm sure Pacman shaped pasta tastes better than the ordinary kind. Well at least the Pacman Pasta commercial is pretty cool. Pacman Commercial for Atari. Atari Cartridges Here are some cool snap shots of the old Pacman cartridge from the 's when Atari ruled the world and Nintendo had not even been created yet! I can't even imagine what something like this would be worth today if you had it in mint condition with all the goodies that came with the original atari game.

Original Box front. Original Box back. Original Manaul. Original Cartridge. Level ?? Doesn't it just piss you off when you play Pacman for 17 straight hours and you get to level and the screen is all messed up? Nerd Version: See at the dawn of video games, everything was about memory. The goal was always to use as little as possible. When each round is over, the GBA switches to another player. The game ends when the preset score 7,, 10,, or 15, is reached by a player.

While playing as Pac-Man, you see the entire maze, just like in the original. You must collect all of the dots while avoiding ghosts, in attempt to score as many points as possible. Each ghost can only see a small, circular-shaped portion of the screen. They must catch the Pac-Man by running into him. If Pac-Man eats a Power Pellet , the ghosts can hide in the ghost box to avoid being eaten.

A remake of Pac-Man Vs. The setup process is far easier and possibly cheaper to set up than the GameCube version. The stages in the DS version are the same as the GameCube release, but their visual appearance is greatly altered including adding a cameo from Miru to one of the maze's walls.

The graphics are improved as well. This version is nearly identical to the GameCube release, except for one major difference - the game now features a single-player mode, where three ghosts chase down a CPU-controlled Pac-Man.

Unfortunately this version is possibly the hardest to set up for traditional multiplayer, as two to four Nintendo Switches are required a very expensive system , alongside one copy of the game and the Pac-Man Vs.

Multiplayer Demo , both of which are on the Nintendo eShop.