Pac-Man Plus
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| Pac-Man Plus | |
| Missing image Pacplus.png Screenshot of Pac-Man Plus | |
| Developer: | Midway Games |
| Publisher: | Midway Games |
| Release date: | 1982 |
| Genre: | Retro/Puzzle |
| Game modes: | Up to 2 players, alternating turns |
| Cabinet: | Standard |
| Controls: | Joystick (4-way) |
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| Orientation: | Vertical |
| Type: | Raster, standard resolution |
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| Developed during the Golden Age of Arcade Games | |
Pac-Man Plus is a 1982 video arcade game released by Namco, which was the 4th in the Pac-man series of games.
Pac-man Plus had the same basic goal of all of the early Pac-man games. The goal was to eat all of the dots before he is killed by the ghosts. Just like the other early Pac-man games, energizers (usually called power pellets by fans of the games) could be eaten so that the ghosts would become vulnerable and turn blue for a short length of time.
Despite the game's cabinet's announcement of Pac-man Plus being "Exciting! New!", Pac-man Plus is basically the original with some minor tweaks. First of all, eating the power pellets caused the ghosts to turn blue just like the others. But instead of just turning blue, they also got smaller and little flags were added to their heads. This was probably done so that the ghosts would be easier to see when they were blue. Secondly, eating the power pellets could cause "mystery" effects, like only 3 of the 4 ghosts turning blue or the ghosts would turn invisible when turning blue or sometimes the maze would temporarily become invisible. The third difference is that later in the game, the entire maze would become permanently invisible. A fourth change was that eating the game's "fruit" (which includes, among other things, what appears to be a can of Coca-Cola) also had the effect of eating an energizer, which, while turning the ghosts blue, would also turn them invisible, and the player would be awarded double the points that eating a normal energizer would.
Ports
Because there were so few differences between Pac-man and Pac-man Plus and because the game was released right before the Video game crash of 1983, Pac-Man Plus was never really ported.
External links
- Pac-Man Plus (http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?letter=P&game_id=8958) entry on the Killer List of Videogames