Pac-Man
Atari 2600 Port of Pac-Man The player controls Pac-Man through a maze, eating pac-dots (also called pellets). When all pac-dots are eaten, Pac-Man is taken to the next stage. Between some stages one of three…
Pac-Man is an arcade developed by Namco, released 16 March 1982 on Atari 2600.
What Pac-Man is
Pac-Man is an arcade game developed by Namco and released in 1982. It was published by Atari. It is available on Atari 2600 only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Pac-Man is a 1982 maze video game developed and published by Atari, Inc. for the Atari 2600 as a port of Namco's 1980 arcade game of the same name. The player controls the title character, who attempts to eat all of the wafers in a maze while avoiding four ghosts that pursue him. Eating flashing wafers at the corners of the screen causes the ghosts to temporarily turn blue and flee, allowing Pac-Man to eat them for bonus points. Once eaten, a ghost is reduced to a pair of eyes, which return to the center of the maze to be restored.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action. It supports multiplayer. Local play supports 2 players. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
Where it sits in the Pac-Man series
Pac-Man is the tenth of 282 entries we hold in the Pac-Man series. The next entry was Pac-Man in 1982. Its critic score of 80 is 10 points above the series average of 70. The highest-rated entry is Pac-Man: Championship Edition DX at 98.
How it was received
Pac-Man holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 68% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 1982 averaged 66, so it scored 14 points above the year average.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Pac-Man yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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