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Classic NES Series: Pac-Man

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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.

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.

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.

This game plays as if you are putting the Pac-Man NES cartridge in the NES. It's supposed to be that way. Of course no "extra features". It's the same as the NES version. I'm getting ticked off now. I DO recommend this. It's a good spend.

As a Pac-Man fan, I can tell you the original is a genuine classic. However, I get pissed off when I see Nintendo testing the public's common sense.

Namco's PAC-MAN COLLECTION consists of the original Pac-Man from the Arcade, plus three other games.

Nintendo's CLASSIC NES SERIES: PAC-MAN is a graphically smashed NES version of Pac-Man with the flaws of the NES. Only ONE game in this cartridge.

Both are around the same price (I've seen the Pac-Man Collection for a cheaper price at some stores.) Nintendo must think we're stupid to pay money for this crap. Say no to this travesty.

Pac-Man is an icon, like Mario and Donkey Kong. Pac-Man was around in the Atari days as a brillaint arcade game and a piece of crap Atari 2600 game. Basically you control a yellow, little guy whose whole body consists of a giant chomping mouth and eyes. He runs around in a maze eating pellets in grand fasion and avoiding pesky ghosts who are trying to ruin his fun. He can easily swallow these burdensome ghosts by ingesting power pellets and turning into a super chomper. Every once in a while fruit show up and offer variation and more points. The whole point of the game is to make the highest scroe possible in a seemingly endless assortment of mazes. Great fun at a great price and a classic. Oh, did you know that Pac-Man was originally called Puc-Man because he looked like a hockey puk? But some mistranslation on the arcade game scored big with gamers and the name stuck!

Pac-Man, before Donkey Kong, was an even bigger smash hit in the arcades.

The NES port of the game does pretty well.

The graphics, sounds, and gameplay are all at least the same as the original arcade game.

Sadly, since this is the port of the NES game, that's the one thing that's on the cartridge.

Pac-Man can do a lot better in modern consoles if it either costs less or is in a game collection (Namco Museum).

For $25, you can find tons of better games that fit that price.

This is "Classic NES Series". I'm sure Pacman was released on the NES,but why the heck is it in this series?

Still,it's a great game,if you like Pacman.

This game, Pac-Man, is good, but it just doesn't feel right when you buy your copy for $20. It deserves to be in some sort of collction, and not a stand alone, as it was as early as the arcade era, and shoouldn't cost more than 5 dollars at this day and age. The fact is, Pac-Man for the NES wasn't a classic game.

To play, you are a yellow ball, and you have to gobble up all the dots in the maze while avoiding the ghosts, who start out in the box (Ghost Home) in the middle of the maze. In 4 corners there are power pellets. Eat them to make the ghosts run away from you and turn blue. You can eat them to get some good points, and then the reamining eyes of the ghost(s) go back to the ghost shelter to be regenerated. Occasionally there will be some fruit under the ghost pen. You can munch them for some bonus points. As the levels go on, the fruit is worth more. Speaking of which, all the levels are the same. So as soon as you eat the last dots, the maze refills.

One thing that changed that I liked was that the lines are now solid light blue so you can see them easier. On this game you can only see a scrolling view, but that's fine,l because it shows a little more than 1/2 the maze at a time. The score board is now at the sides of the maze, also. Now one thing I don't like is that all the ghosts and Pac-man are much bigger than the actual maze lines of the game, making it look very sloppily done.

This game is just missing the feeling of quality and care. Clearly Nintendo took this game straight from the NES and portedit onto the GBA. Don't buy this game, and don't feed them they're easily earned money by supporting they're cruddy ports. Only get the good ones. So what's the final verdict? Get Pac-Man Collection, it's really cheap, includes this game + 3 others, and they're all in their original, arcade form.

DO NOT GET THIS GAME! It is majorly wasting some good money. Don't get me wrong. I like Pac Man a lot. Guess what? They are selling it for 20 dollars (15 now). Guess how much it should cost? 1 dollar. Pac Man is a very good game, but get it only if you are a die hard fan. There are no special features or anything. Just regular old Pac Man. Everyone knows how to play right? Good. But get Pac Man Collection, that is probably 10 dollars, and it has that game plus more. In all, a fun game, but at a nasty price. Never have I seen such a trick company. A whopping price for a repeptive game.