Pac-Man
Pac-Man is a 1980 maze action video game developed and released by Namco for arcades. It is considered one of the classics of the medium, virtually synonymous with video games, and an icon of 1980s popular…
Pac-Man is an arcade developed by Namco, released 22 May 1980 on Arcade. The main story takes about 1 hrs to finish.
What Pac-Man is
Pac-Man is an arcade game developed by Namco and released in 1980. It was published by Midway Manufacturing. It is available on Arcade only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Pac-Man, originally titled Puck Man in Japan, is a 1980 maze video game developed and published by Namco for arcades. It was released in Japan on May 22, 1980 and by Midway Manufacturing in North America in August 1980. The player controls Pac-Man, who must eat all the dots inside an enclosed maze while avoiding four colored ghosts. Eating large flashing dots called "Power Pellets" causes the ghosts to temporarily turn blue and vulnerable, allowing Pac-Man to eat the ghosts for bonus points.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action and survival. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Pac-Man series
Pac-Man is the first of 282 entries we hold in the Pac-Man series. The next entry was Pacman2 in 1980. Its critic score of 79 is 9 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 79 out of 100. That places it above 66% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Player ratings track closely with critics at 79, across 267 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 1 hrs.
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.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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