Pac-Man
The Atari 5200 port of Pac-Man, which is a port of the Atari 8-bit version. One of the most popular and influential games of the 1980's, Pac-Man stars a little, yellow dot-muncher who works his way around to…
Pac-Man is an arcade developed by Namco, released 1 November 1982 on Atari 5200.
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 5200 only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The Atari 5200 port of Pac-Man, which is a port of the Atari 8-bit version. One of the most popular and influential games of the 1980's, Pac-Man stars a little, yellow dot-muncher who works his way around to clear a maze of the various dots and fruit which inhabit the board.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Pac-Man series
Pac-Man is the 14th of 282 entries we hold in the Pac-Man series. The next entry was Baby Pac-Man in 1982.
What it launched against
Pac-Man launched on 1 November 1982, within three weeks of Q*bert, The Hobbit: A Software Adventure, Time Pilot and Millipede.
Released around the same time: Q*bert, The Hobbit: A Software Adventure, Time Pilot, Millipede.
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