![]() ![]() It's such a simple concept where it's basically just a chase in a maze, but this simple concept turned out to be the most brilliant. I mainly got into the Pac Man series playing ports of the game and after those I was hooked on the game franchise for life. He even referenced in the visual media, "The Simpsons", "Tiny Toon Adventures", "Futurama" and featured in the underrated film "Pixels" to this day there is almost not one place without an arcade cabinet of this game. This guy just like in the maze was just everywhere and going places, there was a board game which was fun, a cartoon show from Hana Barbara which was also fun, multiple video game ports, the old VDF color handhelds from the 80's, stand alone games "Pac Man Championship Edition 1 and 2". "Pac Man" was more than just a game, it was a phenomenon as it has become a staple in the 80's decade. This is the game that started it all, it truly was the first in video game franchises, icons, and just everything, without this little guy we wouldn't be where we are now. Sometimes it is the simplest things that are the most fun. As you go, the ghosts become increasingly more difficult to dodge, but even the least skilled gamers of the world can make their way past a board or two. It takes virtually no knowledge to pick up this game to play it and only minimal skill to do fairly well. So there you go, in the game you guide your character through the deadly maze. For such a simple character, he has chomped his way into many forms of media. I even viewed a short film that was rather humorous as it was from the ghost's perspective. There have also been other games, there was one in the arcade that was based around the cartoon and was more of a Super Mario type game as you guided Pac-man on a side scrolling quest. At his height he had his own cartoon and at one point at the Six Flags in Georgia he even had his own play land (later turned into a looney tunes play land). There have been many spin-offs and such of Pac-man during the years. Let's face it, all the arcade cabinet does is play one game, of course it is going to look better. So while it does not look like the arcade, it was still a nice way to pass the time. I was more disheartened by Donkey Kong as it left out a screen of play in it. They may have been able to smooth over the graphics a bit better, but none of the games from the arcade ever remotely looked like their counterpart on the Atari. I do not really know why it has become so scorned recently, because despite its inferior graphics it still plays nearly the same. The Atari 2600 version of the game is a much weaker animal than the arcade cabinet. They do not stay gone, but it can turn the tide in your favor allowing you to grab the last few dots. However, you can turn the tide when you gobble down a special dot that allows you to turn the table on the ghosts and eat them. ![]() During your travels to eat the dots, you must avoid the deadly ghosts as they try and get Pac-man, seemingly knowing where he is at all times. Your objective every time is to clear the maze of dots which you eat. The game play, as I have stated is simple. This one was pure simplicity, in a world now full of first person shooters, one learns to appreciate simply going through a maze avoiding the evil ghosts who dwell within. Pac-man to the extreme like in Baby Pac where part of the arcade cabinet was a pinball machine. ![]() Each would have differences to the original from the subtle such as a few small differences in the maze and the character like in Mrs. Pac-man, Super Pac-man and even Baby Pac-man. Pac-man would spawn other arcade titles such as the also famous, Mrs. I know I played it, whether it was putting coins in an old arcade cabinet or playing the Atari 2600 version I played this game a lot. There are very few people out there that have never played Pac-man. ![]()
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