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Pac-Man Plus
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Name: Pac-Man Plus Developer: Bally Midway Year: 1982 Type: Videogame Class: Wide Release
Number of Simultaneous Players: 1
Sound: Amplified Mono (one channel)
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Pac-Man Plus DescriptionThe game is nearly identical to the original with only a few differences.Pac-Man Plus was produced by Bally Midway in 1982. Bally Midway released 96 different machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1980. Other machines made by Bally Midway during the time period Pac-Man Plus was produced include Bump 'n Jump, Blue Print, Baby Pac-Man, BurgerTime, Earth Friend, Lazarian, Solar Fox, Wizard Of Wor, Adventures of Robby Roto, The, and Crossroads. Cabinet InformationThe enclosure is almost identical to the classic Pac-Man yellow cabinet, but the marquee is replaced with a more modern Pac-Man image with arms and legs. It proclaims itself as being "EXCITING NEW".Cabinet Style Weights and Measures
Cheats, Tricks, Bugs, and Easter EggsCHEAT: This is the same cheat as the original Pac-Man. If you need to take a breather at the start of a screen, go right and immediately up so that you are inside the right corner of the "T" shape. Remain facing up and the ghosts will never find you.ANTI-CHEAT: It is impossible to work a pattern to clear the screen, as it done in the original Pac-Man, because a power pellet does not always turn all the ghosts blue. ConversionThe game can be converted back to Pac-Man with the proper ROMS and CPU.Game IntroductionThe programming is is a lot like Pac-Man except that the maze is outlined in green instead of blue. The prizes that appear in the middle of the maze are cans of Coke, cocktails, green beans, cakes, gift-wrapped boxes, etc. Whenever Pac-Man eats an energizer, the ghosts not only turn blue but they also get apple stems on their heads. On later levels, sometimes only three of the ghosts turn blue.Game PlayThe game plays exactly like the original except that there are various events (apparently selected at random) that may or may not occur after Pac-Man eats one of the four power pellets. These events include but are not limited to: the maze's structure becoming temporarily invisible, the ghosts turning invisible while they are blue, or only three of the four ghosts turning blue. The prizes in the middle of the maze can also act as a power pellet. Another difference is that later in the game the maze's structure becomes permanently invisible. The scoring system is exactly the same as in the original Pac-Man game.VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Pac-Man Plus 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 91 known instances of this machine presumably owned by our current and past members. More are likely owned by non-members. 38 of these machines are owned by our active Pac-Man Plus collectors. And of these, 20 are original dedicated machines, 7 are conversions in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet, and 11 are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired. For Sale - There is one active VAPS member with a Pac-Man Plus machine for sale. There is one active VAPS member with an extra Pac-Man Plus circuit board for sale. Wanted - There is one active VAPS member currently looking for Pac-Man Plus. There is one active VAPS member looking for a Pac-Man Plus circuit board set. This game ranks a 18 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records. This game ranks a 5 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often wanted, 1=least common) in popularity based on census want list records.
TechnicalAn official conversion to the original Pac-Man PCB.The game uses a Z80 microprocessor and a Namco 3-channel PSG for sounds. TriviaThis game was among the many updates to Pac-Man created by Bally Midway that were unauthorized by Namco. These unauthorized sequels ultimately led to the termination of the licensing agreement between Namco and Bally Midway.Legacy
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eBay ListingsClick to search eBay for Pac-Man Plus Videogame machines and related items.Click to search eBay for Bally Midway for machines and parts. Check out the IAM/KLOV report of the hottest coin-op machine auctions, powered by Ace.com.
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