AW SHIT, HERE COMES PAC-MAN

[flaxenPhoenix]

YO YO YO YO YO

WHAT IT IS, MOTHERFUCKERS?!



Also general Pac-Man thread wooooo

[lilpaladin1]

Hey Pac-Man, what's up?

[Sugar Meowth]

Pour one out for poor Pokey



[sub]Saved this one in *2005* and "Jim Davies" gets the actor so unless it was him, idk where it came from[/sub]

[Siph]

I hope they remake World 3 eventually. That's the one I actually have nostalgia for ! Pretty much the only PSP game I enjoyed before selling it and getting a DS instead.

[EcoHound]

A Metroidvania based on the Secret Level episode on Pac-Man

I’m curious about it actually

[hanalei]

Ever wondered why it's always Ms. Pac-Man at the arcade? I don't think I've ever seen a Pac-Man cabinet IRL, it's almost universally Ms. Pac-Man in my experience.

[Lolo De Puzlo]

A Metroidvania based on the Secret Level episode on Pac-Man

I’m curious about it actually

Played this and it's an exceptionally mid Metroidvania with all the coatings of a Pac-Man game but none of the spirit.

Ever wondered why it's always Ms. Pac-Man at the arcade? I don't think I've ever seen a Pac-Man cabinet IRL, it's almost universally Ms. Pac-Man in my experience.

It's likely because Ms. Pac-Man was the creation of the NA distributor at the time Midway (well GCC was but that was at behest of Midway) so they saw more of the profits from it.

The history of Ms. Pac-Man is a fascinating story of theft, bullshit, and bizarre licensing agreements and the fact that Namco just straight up unperson'd her is both hilarious and tragic at the same time. Thanks AtGames.

[Mixi Blacksand]

Finally, Pac-Man 2!

*Quietly pushes Pac-Man 2: The New Adventures carts under the couch*

[Lolo De Puzlo]

Finally, Pac-Man 2!

*Quietly pushes Pac-Man 2: The New Adventures carts under the couch*

This is a space of Pac-Man 2 glory. We do not need to hide our right opinions that Pac-Man 2 is good.

[EdenCoven]

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THE GOAT

[Mixi Blacksand]

Pac-Man 2 Pac-Man is a funny little guy whose plight torments me... for it is my failings that lead him into suffering

[JarylGaren]

YO YO YO YO YO

WHAT IT IS, MOTHERFUCKERS?!



Also general Pac-Man thread wooooo

god, I remember playing the PC version of Pac-Man World 2 (of all versions) back in the day, so this announcement actually has me genuinely excited! Reminds me that I still need to play through Pac-Man World 1 Re-Pac. I also had the PS1 version of that one growing up back then, and I liked it a lot! But man, it gets *spicy* later on!

other than that, I like Pac-Man. He's a funny lil' guy.

[Sugar Meowth]

Ever wondered why it's always Ms. Pac-Man at the arcade? I don't think I've ever seen a Pac-Man cabinet IRL, it's almost universally Ms. Pac-Man in my experience.

OG Pac Man is fully deterministic which makes it possible to just memorize patterns and get the same results every time. Ms Pac Man shuffles things up enough that doing so is unreliable.

Ends up being more fun for players too since the maze isn't always the same every time as well.

https://pacman.holenet.info/ - The Pac-Man Dossier is a real neat read about how the game works internally and its bugs.

The history of Ms. Pac-Man is a fascinating story of theft, bullshit, and bizarre licensing agreements and the fact that Namco just straight up unperson'd her is both hilarious and tragic at the same time. Thanks AtGames.

if you've got an hour, one of the original developers of Ms. Pac-Man did a really informative post mortem for GDC in 2016. This includes lawsuits with Namco over royalties and annoyances with contract law. (If a Ms. Pac-Man machine is coin operated, the creators get paid. If a Ms. Pac-Man machine requires you to swipe a card to get a credit, they do not.)

[Araphel]

Finally, Pac-Man 2!

*Quietly pushes Pac-Man 2: The New Adventures carts under the couch*

game publishers aren't as brave as they used to be. more games should make sequels in entirely seperate genres imo! i think the gaming industry is full of cowards!!!!

[flaxenPhoenix]

Finally, Pac-Man 2!

*Quietly pushes Pac-Man 2: The New Adventures carts under the couch*

game publishers aren't as brave as they used to be. more games should make sequels in entirely seperate genres imo! i think the gaming industry is full of cowards!!!!

Glances at ZUN going from an Arkanoid clone to shoot-em-ups between Touhou 1 and 2

[Sludger Slipfwysh]

Interesting. I gave this game a lot of my time back on the Gamecube, and it's interesting to see how the style and mechanics have been tweaked.
Looking forward to see how it handles. We've come a long way from pre-rendered video and slippery 3D platforming...

[flaxenPhoenix]

Ever wondered why it's always Ms. Pac-Man at the arcade? I don't think I've ever seen a Pac-Man cabinet IRL, it's almost universally Ms. Pac-Man in my experience.

When I was a little kid, Ms. Pac-Man was like the only one that was consistently available to play. There were three different arcade machines in town to play it, and all three of them were Ms. Pac-Man (although the third one was in a regular Pac-Man cabinet). I also had the Plug & Play. (Still do, actually, although it's not the exact same one I had as a kid. That one is gone after its cables got bent out of shape.) It's to the point where I actually didn't even know there WAS a Mr. Pac-Man until I started going online and searching for it on Namco's website. Up until then I had always thought that Ms. Pac-Man came first and Pac-Man was the sequel, instead of vice versa.

I also had ghost OCs at age 4 lmao. Every day I'd come home from school, grab some colored paper, and I'd cut them out into the shapes of Ms. Pac-Man and the ghosts. Then I decided that four ghosts wasn't enough, so I invented two more: Winky the white ghost and Stinky the rainbow ghost. (You can really tell where my 4-year-old mind ran out of words that rhymed with "Inky". Also, Stinky's rainbow effect was created by me cutting out six ghosts that were each half as wide as the usual one, each in a different color of the rainbow, then stapling them together.) I also did this with the Galaga ship (which ended up mostly just looking like a simple triangle, although it was longer and pointier than the actual ship in-game) and the Bejeweled gems.

[Enbyeon]

The history of Ms. Pac-Man is a fascinating story of theft, bullshit, and bizarre licensing agreements and the fact that Namco just straight up unperson'd her is both hilarious and tragic at the same time. Thanks AtGames.

[flaxenPhoenix]

A while back I realized something about Buccaneer Beach from Pac-Man World 1.

[DustStar]

The history of Ms. Pac-Man is a fascinating story of theft, bullshit, and bizarre licensing agreements and the fact that Namco just straight up unperson'd her is both hilarious and tragic at the same time. Thanks AtGames.

The funniest thing about Namco unpersoning Ms. Pac-Man is that the character they replaced her with as Pac-Man's love interest was originally designed to be her mom. So Namco unintentionally created a narrative of Pac-Man ditching his wife to get with his ex's mother.

Finally, Pac-Man 2!

*Quietly pushes Pac-Man 2: The New Adventures carts under the couch*