Pac-Man

1980
NES and Game Boy and Game Boy Color and Game Boy Advance and Wii and Wii U and Nintendo 3DS
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3rd generation

History

Blinky, Pinky, Inky, and Clyde chase the dot-eater in Pac-Man, Toru Iwatani's maze for Namco. A power pellet turns the chase around for a few seconds, and the fruit is a bonus between the pellets.

Namco's arcade craze dates to 1980, and Iwatani's design is the public identity of the yellow shape. The four ghosts, not a console debut, are what the name meant first.

The Famicom port came years later. Wakawaka corridors and the ghosts are the cabinet's phenomenon, and the home board is a later carrier of that craze.

Related in this catalog

Same series is the tight name match. Same franchise is the wider family. Same platform is other games on the systems named above.

Same series

Ms. Pac-Man 1981 · NES / SNES / Game Boy
Ms. Pac-Man Maze Madness 2000 · Nintendo 64
Pac-Man World 2 (2002) 2002 · Game Boy Advance

Same franchise

The series list above is the whole family set in this catalog.

Same platform

Battlezone (1980) 1980 · Game Boy
Boxing (1980) 1980 · Game Boy
Golf (1980) 1980 · NES / Game Boy
Missile Command (1980) 1980 · Game Boy / Game Boy Color
Asteroids (1979) 1979 · Game Boy / Game Boy Advance
Centipede (1981) 1981 · Game Boy / Game Boy Color
Frogger (1981) 1981 · SNES / Game Boy / Game Boy Color
Galaga (1981) 1981 · NES / Game Boy
Galaxian 1979 · NES / Game Boy
Ultima (Old) 1981 · Game Boy
Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord 1981 · Game Boy Color
BurgerTime (1982) 1982 · Game Boy

RAWG record

RAWG rating4.05 / 5

Ratings315

RAWG date1980-05-22

ESRB on RAWGEveryone

GenresCasual, Family, Arcade

DevelopersNot listed

PublishersNot listed

Platforms on RAWGpc, playstation4, xbox-one, nintendo-switch, ios, android, nintendo-3ds, macos, xbox360, wii-u, wii, game-boy-advance, game-boy-color, game-boy, nes, apple-ii, commodore-amiga, atari-5200, atari-2600, atari-8-bit, game-gear, neogeo

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