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Pac-Mania

Pac-Mania is a variation on the game Pac-Man. You need to guide Pac-Man around a maze and eat all of the dots on the board in order to proceed on to the next round. Numerous, multi-colored ghosts also roam the…

2 August 1990

Pac-Mania is an arcade developed by Namco, released 2 August 1990 on Nintendo Entertainment System.

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What Pac-Mania is

Pac-Mania is an arcade game developed by Namco and released in 1990. It was published by Tengen. It is available on Nintendo Entertainment System only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Pac-Mania is a variation on the game Pac-Man. You need to guide Pac-Man around a maze and eat all of the dots on the board in order to proceed on to the next round. Numerous, multi-colored ghosts also roam the maze trying to stop you. If you eat one of the power pellets in the maze, the ghosts will temporarily turn blue and run from you. Pac-Man can earn bonus points by eating the ghosts when they are in this state. The maze is now shown in isometric perspective and is larger than screen which will scroll to follow the action. To help get out of tight spots, Pac-Man now has the ability to jump. But be careful, because some of the ghosts have learned this trick as well and you could end up…
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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-Mania is the 58th of 282 entries we hold in the Pac-Man series. It arrived 7 months after Pac-Land. The next entry was Pac-Man in 1990.

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When did Pac-Mania come out?
Pac-Mania was released on 2 August 1990 for Nintendo Entertainment System.

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