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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 to proceed on to the next round. Numerous, multi-colored ghosts also roam the maze…

18 October 1991

Pac-Mania is an arcade developed by Namco, released 18 October 1991 on Acorn Archimedes.

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What Pac-Mania is

Pac-Mania is an arcade game developed by Namco and released in 1991. It was published by Domark Software. It is available on Acorn Archimedes 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 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 the screen which will scroll to follow the action. To help get out of tight spots, Pac-Man can now jump. But be careful, because some of the ghosts have learned this trick as well and you could end up in a mid-air…
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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 65th of 282 entries we hold in the Pac-Man series. The next entry was Ms. Pac-Man in 1991.

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What it launched against

Pac-Mania launched on 18 October 1991, within three weeks of Super Castlevania IV, Super Ghouls'n Ghosts and Road Rash.

Released around the same time: Super Castlevania IV, Super Ghouls'n Ghosts, Road Rash.

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When did Pac-Mania come out?
Pac-Mania was released on 18 October 1991 for Acorn Archimedes.

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