The attention to detail on the design and art work is excellent and to be honest it would make a great collection piece for any gaming collector. I was lucky enough to try the Quarter Arcades ¼ Scale arcade cab at Play Expo London before its official release and it was very good. You can find the latest price for Quarter Arcades ¼ Scale Pac-Man Arcade Cab here. You can find the latest price for a Pac-Man Pocket Player here on Amazon. I personally play Pac-Man on my MAME arcade machine but if you do want a Pac-Man fix then checkout the links below. You can play Pac Man today through emulation, plug n play games or the recently released collectible quarter scale arcade cabinet from Numskull Designs. Pac-Man still features in games and in arcades to this day and is a legendary and iconic game character that has stood the test of time and should be regarded in the same league as those other legendary characters Mario and Sonic. This also happened with other titles like Pac Man Plus, Jr Pac-Man and baby Pac-Man resulting in Namco ending their business dealings with Midway. Even Ms Pac-Man started out as unauthorized hack called Crazy Otto that was eventually sold to Midway without Namco’s permission. Pac-Man started the maze chase genre that would produce so many similar games all trying to emulate the success of the legendary title. A New Genre was BornĪt the time of release Pac-Man was a refreshing change in arcades where the most popular games of the time were all space shooters such as Space Invaders, Asteroids and Galaxian. Basically, anything on screen, he can pretty much eat.
So, he eats dots/Pac dots, power capsules, fruit, Galaxian’s, bells, keys and ghosts.
At stage 256 a bug hits the right half of the screen which fills up with random symbols which means you can’t complete that stage and just must try and gets as many points as possible whilst using up your remaining lives. He eats a lot doesn’t he, especially if you are good at the game but how much can Pac-Man actually eat? Well the simple answer he can potentially eat everything on the screen up to stage 255. Inky – Cyan (light blue) with a bashful personality (fickle will head towards Pac-Man and sometimes head away from him too)Ĭlyde – Orange with a pokey personality (will aim for Pac-Man when he is some distance away but when close to Pac-Man he will aim towards the lower left corner of the maze). Pinky – pink with a speedy personality (aims for a position in front of Pac-Man) The amount of time the ghosts turn blue varies on each stage starting off at 6 seconds then decreasing before increasing again at stage 6.īlinky – red with a shadow personality (chases Pac-Man) Pac-Man’s designer Toru Iwatani designed each ghost to have their own personality so that the game doesn’t get boring. Having eaten a Power Capsule Pac-Man can of course for a short time pursue and eat those pesky ghosts who will turn blue. Stage 13 Onwards – Key (5000 points) Ghost Buster Pac-Man We go from fruit to a Galaxian, a Bell and a key. During stages 1 through to 8 the following fruit appears:įrom stage 9 onwards the edible bonus items get a little strange. First off there is the fruit which appear twice per stage and helps those players chasing a high score add bonus points. Five a DayĪpart from dots and power capsules there are other items for Pac-Man to eat. This wasn’t the only change that western audiences would experience as the pace and difficulty of the game was also increased to appeal their tastes. Because of this his name was changed to Pac-Man. Originally called Puck Man because he looks like the shape of a hockey puck Midway had concerns that the title could be easily altered to the ‘F Bomb man’ (I won’t swear on my blog) by aspiring graffiti artists/mischievous arcade gamers who simply had to change the P to an F.
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Midway secured the license to distribute Puck Man in the United States and this was where his name changed.
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