Microsoft Return of Arcade
A follow up release to Microsoft Arcade that contains the following game compilation: Pac-Man, Dig Dug, Galaxian, and Pole Position.
Microsoft Return of Arcade is an arcade, released 31 December 1996 on PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Microsoft Return of Arcade is
Microsoft Return of Arcade was released in 1996. It was published by Microsoft. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Pac-Man series
Microsoft Return of Arcade is the 94th of 282 entries we hold in the Pac-Man series. The next entry was Pac-Junior in 1997. Its critic score of 63 is 7 points below the series average of 70. The highest-rated entry is Pac-Man: Championship Edition DX at 98.
How it was received
Microsoft Return of Arcade holds a critic score of 63 out of 100. That places it above 24% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 1996 averaged 70, so it scored 7 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Microsoft Return of Arcade launched on 31 December 1996, within three weeks of Mario Kart 64, Wild Arms, Mega Man 8 and Money Puzzle Exchanger. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Mario Kart 64, Wild Arms, Mega Man 8, Money Puzzle Exchanger.
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