![]() Four power pills in the corners of the maze can be munched at appropriate times in order to become temporarily super-powered this allows you to turn the tables and eat them, but your opportunity to do so is very limited. In short, you guide the gurning slack-jawed Pac-Man throughout the blue lines of a single-screen maze trying to clear every single dot without bumping into the four ghost-monsters along the way. Exactly like Galaga, it's 'just' the original arcade game in non-modified form, which is to say the same pill-munching affair that it's always been. In terms of what you actually get for your 400 points, well, it's not a lot. For now, yes, it's quite a high price to pay for something that originally came out in 1979 and is about as basic as gaming gets, but you're paying for convenience alone, folks. In terms of actual bang for your buck, titles like this are massively overpriced compared to what it'd cost you per game on a compilation - but that's an ongoing issue that's only going to be resolved once Microsoft starts getting some serious competition in the downloadable console games arena. ![]() ![]() It's a game that's been re-issued so many times across so many platforms (particularly on the incessant Namco Museum releases) that we wouldn't blame you in the slightest for showing utter contempt for yet another thinly veiled attempt to tug at the flaccid teat of this most abused of cash-cows. Eat to the beat Ready for a lifetime in videogames, youngster?įor everyone else too young or too bored to indulge in the pill-munching feast all over again, that's fine. The chance to compete on worldwide leaderboards alone is enough for most of its fans to justify shelling out for it. For some people, it's still their game, and today's release on Xbox 360 Live Arcade will be the cause of much celebration for a lot of people. However much people scoff (arf) about what Pac-Man means today, its seismic impact shouldn't be underestimated. The best Christmas present I ever bought my sister was one of those terrible plug and play TV joysticks with Pac-Man built into it. ![]() Probably because it didn't involve shooting, punching or jumping, everyone loved it, and still loves it. Unlike any other game, my entire family became ritually obsessed with Pac-Man, and latterly Ms. As it turned out, the four yellow power pills on offer inside the maze seemed way more interesting: it turned the ghosts blue, ma! Watch me eat them. It's easy to embellish these things after the fact, but Morpheus himself may as well have been standing there offering me the blue pill of normal life, or the red pill of a lifetime of staring at a screen, open mouthed. When I first got pulled in by this gaming tractor beam, I was barely tall enough to see the arcade cabinet's screen, but lure of dot-munching proved instantly irresistible. If it wasn't for Pac-Man and his relentless pursuers many of us might not have been lured into the gaping maw of videogames in the first place. Software description provided by the publisher.Blinky, Pinky, Inky and Clyde. Includes 5 titles that can be played with friends and family in local multiplayer mode! There are even games for two players to take turns, so everyone gets to enjoy PAC-MAN together!Ĭollect items every time you play, and customize your very own arcade with them! Whether you love the original PAC-MAN's side-scrolling action or the puzzle genre, this collection has something for everyone! Play all 14 legendary titles like the classic PAC-MAN and PAC-LAND, as well as the newly included PAC-IN-TIME and PAC-MAN 256. Play a variety of classic and nostalgic PAC-MAN games across many genres! PAC-MAN MUSEUM+ includes 14 titles from the legendary PAC-MAN series!
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