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Name: Pac-Man Developer: Namco Manufacturer: Namco (Japan, Germany) Manufacturer: Midway Manufacturing Co. (United States, France) Manufacturer: Sonic (d.b.a. of Segasa) (Spain) Year: 1980 Type: Videogame Class: Wide Release
Game Specific: Pac-Man Pinout Settings: Pac-Man Dipswitch Settings Number of Simultaneous Players: 1
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Pac-Man DescriptionA yellow, pie-shaped character named Pac-Man runs along inside a maze, eating dots as it avoids four ghosts. Each ghost has its own unique personality and gobbling one of the four super dots makes Pac-Man invincible to the ghosts for a given period of time. Each maze has its own unique bonus fruit or object with bonus points increasing as the game progresses.Pac-Man was produced by Namco in 1980. Namco released 307 different machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1978. Other machines made by Namco during the time period Pac-Man was produced include Navarone, Galaga, New Rally-X, King And Balloon, Tank Battalion, Bomb Bee, Cutie Q, Galaxian, Puck Man, and SOS. Pac-Man - KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 3.73 (27 votes)
Personal Impressions and Technical Impressions each account for half of the total score. Within the Personal Impressions category, "Like" carries a little more weight than the other factors. Log in to rate this game! Cabinet InformationThese cabinets will sometimes be speckled with pink or blue paint on top of the yellow coat. Also because of its high popularity, most cabinets tend to have wear marks where players would rest the hand they were not using to control the game. The plastic edging on the cabinets was originally orange. The sides show PacMan trying to run away from a ghost with his mouth wide open. The kickpanel displays the same artwork.Cabinet Style Weights and Measures
Cheats, Tricks, Bugs, and Easter EggsIt is possible to follow a pattern on each maze that will always clear the screen without being caught by the ghosts.PIt is possible to hide forever in one place on the screen. Here is how where PacMan starts there is a Tlike wall above him. If you go up to the rightmost part of the T from the bottom without any ghosts seeing you go in, they will never enter that spot. Also, do not move stay still, facing up.ConversionThis can be converted to IPacMan PlusI, IMs. PacManI, or IJr. PacManI by switching the marquee, control panel overlay, monitor bezel, kickpanel art if necessary, and PCB.Game IntroductionThe four ghosts, which your character must avoid, each have a different color, name, nickname and personality. The pink ghost is Speedy, nicknamed "Pinky" he's fast. The red ghost is Shadow, nicknamed "Blinky" he's always behind you and it's hard to shake him. The light blue ghost is Bashful, nicknamed "Inky" he's terribly shy and will actually run away from you. And the orange ghost is Pokey, nicknamed "Clyde" he will try his best to get you, but he is slow.Game PlayPac-Man must clear the maze of all 240 dots and all four energizers to proceed to the next level of difficulty. As Pac-Man eats the dots, the ghosts chase him around the maze and if Pac-Man collides with one of the ghosts, he is a goner. He can eat one of the energizers to turn the ghosts dark blue, which make them edible for him. But after Pac-Man has eaten any of the ghosts, their eyes will return to the pen in the middle of the maze where they will each regenerate into their former selves and return to chase him again.Occasionally, a bonus fruit or prize will temporarily appear in the middle of the maze below the ghosts' pen. Pac-Man can eat those bonus items to receive extra points. Also, there is an escape tunnel in the sides of the maze which Pac-Man can use to get away from any of the ghosts that may be pursuing him. After the maze has been cleared of all 240 dots and all four energizers, the entire sequence will begin again with increased difficulty. Between every two, three, or four completions, there are musical, animated intermissions to amuse the player while he or she waits for the next challenge to begin. However, these intermissions are not seen anymore once the 18th board 6th key is reached. Everything Pac-Man eats has different point values. The dots are 10 points each, the energizers are 50 points each. The dark blue ghosts are respectively 200, 400, 800 and 1600 points. There are different point values for every bonus fruit or prize that is eaten: cherries, 100 points strawberry, 300 points peach, 500 points apple, 700 points grapes, 1000 points Galaxian, 2000 points bell, 3000 points and key, 5000 points. You will also get a bonus Pac-Man at 10,000 points switch selectable...can also be 15,000 points, 20,000 points, or no bonus. HacksULLIIBrakmanI Replaces the ghosts with Braks and changes the maze. It also changes the ready text to YOWZALIIClydes RevengeI Lets you play as a ghost.LIIDizzyGhostI Lets you play as a ghost. It also changes the maze.LIIIm Going BerzerkI Chicken Eat all the dots like a robotliiMr. Pac Mani Uses the original Pac Man character while playing Ms. Pac Man.liiPacKongi Uses the original PacMan graphics in a Donkey Kong game.LIIPacMan 2600I Changes the maze and graphics to make them look more like those from the Atari 2600.LIIPopManI A six IC update that changed the main character to Popeyes head. Featured a disappearing maze and six warp tunnels. This hack could also be used in IPacMan PlusI.LIIPuckman RenaissanceI Changes the graphics to make them look better.LIISnowy Day PacManI Has a Christmas theme.LIIPikaManI Changes PacMan to Pikachus head, changes the maze, and changes the ghosts to Haunter. It also changes the Ready message to PIKACHUULMiscellaneousLICENSOR NamcoBRSPINOFF IKick ManI PacMan and the ghosts appear in this gameBRWWW httpwww.emuunlim.comdoteatersplay2sta4.htmVAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Pac-Man CensusThere are 12,007 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,523 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 161,736 machines (6,804 unique titles).Very Common - There are approximately 1319 known instances of this machine presumably owned by our current and past members. More are likely owned by non-members. 459 of these machines are owned by our active Pac-Man collectors. And of these, 361 are original dedicated machines, 13 are conversions in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet, and 85 are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired. For Sale - There are 5 active VAPS members with Pac-Man machines for sale. There are 9 active VAPS members with extra Pac-Man circuit boards for sale. Wanted - Popular - There are 22 active VAPS members currently looking for Pac-Man. This game ranks a 99 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records. This game ranks a 75 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often wanted, 1=least common) in popularity based on census want list records.
TechnicalThe game uses a Z80 microprocessor and a Namco 3channel PSG for sounds. Troubleshooting manuals can be found at httpwww.erinet.comjamesmtechtech.htm. The Pacman SUPER ABC kit replaces the chips at 6ETriviaThe single most popular game of all time. The game spawned several lines of merchandise and a Saturday morning animated series on ABC that lasted two seasons from 1982 to 1984. There was even a primetime animated Christmas special called IChristmas Comes To PacLandI which was first broadcasted on ABC sometime in December 1982. Actor Marty Ingels supplied the voice for the main character in both of these animated shows and he was even given a genuine IPacManI arcade game by the people who hired him.PThe games hero was born from a pan of pizza with one slice missing, as Toru Iwatani Namco, tried to think of a character for his new game. He gazed down at the pizza, then it dawned on him ... a circle with a wedge missing for a mouth ... and so, PacMan was born.PThe game was, at first, called IPuckmanI. It was later changed due to the fact that the middle section of the P could be scratched away making the name offensive to people.PThe American rights were to go to Atari originally, but they turned them down, saying the game was too easy.PA game called PacMan World 20th Anniversary was released for the PlayStation Game Console in late 1999. In this 3D game, PacMan has to save his friends and family from TocMan a robotic PacMan from Ghost Island, whose name is Namcos original name, Namcot, spelled backwards. The friends and family are here as follows Pooka from IDig DugI, ChompChomp the Dog from IPacLandI, Professor Pac from IProfessor PacManI, Baby Pac from IBaby PacManI and IPacLandI, Junior Pac from IJr. PacManI and IPacLandI, and Ms. PacMan from IMs. PacManI and IPacLandI. PacMan has learned some new moves to save his family like swimming, revving and more. This release also contains the original PacMan game.Legacy
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