Classic NES Series: Pac-Man

by Nintendo

Product Features

• Use Samus' energy blaster, missile launcher, bombs and balling-up ability to infiltrates a dangerous planet
• Collect power items and health tanks as you shoot your way through alien monsters and space pirates, while searching for the deadly Mother Brain

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0001ZZNMO
• Product Dimensions: 5.2 x 5.2 x 1 inches ; 5 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: June 7, 2004
• Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #26,625 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

What made Pac-Man an icon of the 1980s and an icon of video game culture? Highly addictive gameplay and shrewd marketing deals of the sort that Mary-Kate and Ashley must lie awake at night wishing they could dream of. Although he's often imitated, it's impossible to replace the original Pac-Man, now part of the NES Classics series for Game Boy Advance.

Pac-Man's brilliant maze-based action made Namco a major player in video games. Not only did this quarter-guzzling yellow dynamo capture the attention of gamers everywhere, it spawned game sequels, cartoons and snappy T-shirt designs. In true American fashion, Pac-Man's cultural immortality was assured by the emergence of a hit single, "Pac-Man Fever."

In the NES Classics game, Pac-Man gets to do what he does best: chomp pellets and ghosts. You maneuver the mouth-man through a maze filled with pellets, fruit, power pellets and ghosts. Blinky, Pinky, Clyde and Inky aren't real smart, but they sure move fast as the game progresses. Two players can take turns mastering the maze, either on the same Game Pak or through the Game Boy Advance Game Link Cable.

Product Description

Pac-Man - Classic NES Series brings back the video game that started an industry. Classic maze-running action as you control Pac-Man, helping him avoid the ghost while munching pellets. Eat the power pills to turn the tables on the ghosts & rack up points, in this old-school game hit!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars The absolute WORST of the Classic NES Series, June 16, 2004

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S. Rhodes - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Classic NES Series: Pac-Man (Video Game)

PACMAN is the game that basically defined the Arcade. But this isn't the "Classic Arcade Series" its the "Classic NES Series" which means we get the NES version. This is NOT a good thing and while PACMAN is one of the games that will NEVER be forgotten the "Classic NES Series" doesn't capture it in all its glory. PACMAN was a nice classic Arcade game. I wouldn't consider the NES version to be a classic in anyway. There are a few things that stand out as to why.

The gameplay isn't bad. You're PACMAN in a maze eating up little yellow pelts. The Big Pelts give you the chance to capture the ghost.

But as I said some things are just wrong. For example, the Arcade version was a stretched out screen with the score at the top. This version shows the score off to the far right and tries to hard to fit it into the screen. You'll notice that PACMAN, the fruit and the ghost are all bigger than the corridor of the maze.

PACMAN also suffers from what many other Classic NES games suffer from and this one has it bad. For one ITS BEEN RE-RELEASED SEVERAL TIMES! If you have the Namco Museum you're fine (and that's even out on the GBA). Don't buy the classic NES series of PACMAN. Instead buy the Namco Museum package. Not only is it better but its also the Arcade version.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Chomping Level 1, June 10, 2004

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Michael Kerner "Michael Kerner" (Brooklyn, New York U.S.A.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Classic NES Series: Pac-Man (Video Game)

I look at older video games as a way of going back to my days in childhood. Nevertheless, they always brought some basic memories of my days feeling the rhythm of the arcade. That was there with Pac Man. The arcade classic still seems to amaze me from time to time. But, when too much nostalgia seems to simmer around, it is just so difficult to decide. Especially, whether there is the system you own, or the quantity and quality oddly enough, it always comes down to the simplicity of the yellow chomp, and the ghoulish spooks that haunt him. The downside is that there is ultimately too many different ways to get Pac Man.

The 2004, Pac Man for the Nintendo Game Boy Advance, is a consistent enterance, as it was a few years ago with the Pac Man Collection. This version of the game, was made in response to the Classic NES series lineup, a collection series to the 20th anniversary of the original Nintendo Entertainment System, the original super-system, of all video game systems. There really isn't anything new here, as you've played Pac Man here, but the game itself, and its reissuing again. The game features Pac Man, trying to gobble the power pellets, and evading away from the ghouls, that strike at will. The downside is that it really isn't useful, when too many reissuings of Pac Man are all at one, only one should be chosen, and stuck with.

Although Pac Man is great, this isn't the best version of the chomper that is yellow. Instead, I suggest you get the Pac Man Collection edition for the Game Boy Advance. You get this version of Pac Man, as well as three extra games of Pac Man: Pac-Mania, the Tetris-like Pac-Attack, and Pac-Man Arrangement. All in all, I don't suggest this one, for all the nostaglic ones out there.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Pac Man Fever Redux!, June 7, 2004

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Brett D. Cullum (Houston, TX United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Classic NES Series: Pac-Man (Video Game)

Pac-Man is a great classic game! I love gobbling dots and ghosts, and could do it all day. It's a simple maze game that jump started the arcade craze. It caught on with girls and boys because it was a non-violent (sort of) cute and challenging game. You can never have enough pac-man in your life!

But with the recent realease of THE PAC MAN collection for the GBA where you get 4 or 5 games, and the NAMCO MUSEUM which includes MS PAC-MAN .... why do we need a bare bones release? For about $5 more than carts with more games! Whacka Whacka ... HUH!?!?!? For $19.99 you could get the NAMCO plug in play which includes Dig Dug, Rally X, Galaxian, and another space game. RETRO is awesome, but I know you can fit more on a cart than just one PAC-MAN game. So yeah for PAC-MAN, and !?!??! for Nintendo.