Pac-Man
The Xbox Live version of Pac-Man is a direct port of the arcade original, but fixes the kill screen on level 256, making the game playable beyond that level. It also adds a score board.
Pac-Man is an arcade developed by Namco, released 9 August 2006 on Xbox 360.
What Pac-Man is
Pac-Man is an arcade game developed by Namco and released in 2006. It was published by Namco Bandai Games. It is available on Xbox 360 only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The Xbox Live version of Pac-Man is a direct port of the arcade original, but fixes the kill screen on level 256, making the game playable beyond that level. It also adds a score board.
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
Pac-Man is the 144th of 282 entries we hold in the Pac-Man series. It arrived 7 months after Namco Museum Vol. 1. The next entry was Pac-Man World Rally in 2006. Its critic score of 50 is 20 points below 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 50 out of 100. That places it above 8% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2006 averaged 65, so it scored 15 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Pac-Man launched on 9 August 2006, within three weeks of Dead Rising, Civilization IV: Warlords, Saints Row and Virtua Fighter 5. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Dead Rising, Civilization IV: Warlords, Saints Row, Virtua Fighter 5.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
Screenshots
All media
Parents
Quick answers
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