Pac-Man
2008
- arcade
- action
- fantasy
- single player
The story
One of the most popular video games in arcade history! 2015 World Video Game Hall of Fame Inductee Who can forget the countless hours and quarters spent outrunning pesky ghosts and chompin’ on dots? Now you can have the same arcade excitement on your mobile devices! Guide PAC-MAN through the mazes with easy swipe controls, a MFi controller, or kick it old school with the onscreen joystick! Eat all of the dots to advance to the next stage. Go for high scores and higher levels! Gain an extra life at 10.000 points! Gobble Power Pellets to weaken ghosts temporarily and eat them up before they change back. Avoid Blinky, the leader of the ghosts, and his fellow ghosts Pinky, Inky, and Clyde, or you will lose a life. It’s game over when you lose all your lives. NEW MAZES!!! In addition to the pixel for pixel recreation of the classic original maze, the game is packed with new different mazes. Challenge your skill to beat them all! We are constantly updating the game with new maze packs that you can buy to complete your PAC-MAN collection. HINTS and TIPS!!! Insider pro-tips and hints are being made available for the first time in-game! Use these to help you become a PAC-MAN champion! FEATURES: • New tournaments • New Visual Hints and Pro-tips • New mazes for all new challenges • Play an arcade perfect port of classic PAC-MAN • Two different control modes • Three game difficulties (including the original 1980 arcade game) • Retina display support • MFi controller support This port of Pac-Man was delisted in 2013 from the digital stores.
What it’s like
Bright, flat arcade colour on a dark ground: the blue-walled mazes glow against black, and the yellow chomper and pastel ghosts stay crisp on a retina screen. Movement is clockwork and quick, with short bleeps for every dot and a warbling siren that quickens as the power pellets run out. Sessions are short and looping, the kind of thing you pick up for five minutes while waiting for a train or a kettle, then find you have lost an hour to one more run for a higher score. Its mood is playful and nostalgic, with a steady, low-stakes tension when the ghosts close in. There is no blood, no gore and no sexual content; the only danger is the chase itself, and a lost life simply restarts the maze. The new maze packs and tips add a modern layer over the original design, which suits players who grew up with the cabinet and want to revisit it on a phone or tablet, or anyone curious about the classic arcade rhythm in a compact, gentle form.
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