Pac-Man: Adventures in Time

by Atari

Product Details

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• ASIN: B00004T782
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: October 31, 2000
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #28,007 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

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Players journey back in time to the '80s and beyond in Pac-Man: Adventures in Time. The ghosts have stolen a magical power pellet, smashed it, and scattered the pieces across his planet. With the help of Professor Pac-Man, players will travel to five time periods and from Egypt to the Wild West. There are 45 3-D mazes featuring different elevations and terrains, and designs such as spheres and cylinders. With the exception of Pac-Man's ability to jump, gameplay has remained faithful to the arcade version--he can only move in four directions and does not use objects. Don't go crazy with the jumping, however; when the jump meter runs out, Pac-Man is stuck on the ground. There are 16 playable sublevels containing hidden games that link the mazes, and there are bonus items like pretzels and doughnuts. Players can compete via a LAN or over the Internet.

Product Description

In this Classic, you'll get to journey through history as Pac-Man, traveling back in time to save his planet. Pac-Man's archenemies, the ghosts, have stolen his planet's magical power pellet, smashed it and scattered the pieces from ancient Egypt to the Wild West. Now, it's up to Pac-Man to get them back.

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Customer Reviews

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29 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Another masterpiece from Hasbro Interactive, November 29, 2000

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Mike (Cleveland, OH) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Pac-Man: Adventures in Time (CD-ROM)

As a kid of the 80s, I lived and breathed Pac-Man. I couldn't get enough of the pellet chomping and ghost devouring. This 21st century version of Pac-Man is a spectacular adaptation of a game that never goes out of style.

For starters, the graphics are outstanding. The game's open is one of the few game opens I truly enjoy watching. While one of the basic objectives of the game is to avoid the ghosts, there are also other distractions to avoid like alligators, boulders, and snakes, all of which make the game that much more challenging. The mazes are superbly designed. The first maze caught my eye since the layout is the same as the first maze on the original Pac-Man. The bonus rounds, like a river run and a variation of Concentration, are a change of pace but they do not take away from the overall enjoyment of the game. In short, Pac-Man: Adventures in Time is a definite must get game.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good adaptation, but some glitches in play, September 4, 2001

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Sir Bowen (Houston, TX USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Pac-Man: Adventures in Time (CD-ROM)

This is a somewhat uneven adaptation of pac-man. In general, it has great graphics, good mazes, etc. It keeps the Pac-man playing style while adding nifty modern touches.

The problem comes in the playability. I often found that I was fighting the game: slow responses at critical times, getting into situations where I couldn't see important things due to the field-of-view, etc.

Hopefully they'll come out with a Pac-Man 2 that can clean up these glitches. If they do, it will be a fine game.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Pac-Man Adventures in Time is great!, April 5, 2002

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Elizabeth Abernathy (Naperville, IL United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Pac-Man: Adventures in Time (CD-ROM)

I really loved playing this game. It's your basic Pac-Man run around and collect little pellets and dodge all the gosts, except some really cool scenery and quite a few new twists, including rolling boulders, killer snakes, mine carts, seesaws, and multi-level and sideways mazes. And more. Oh yeah, and don't forget Pac-Man is traveling through time. From cavemen ghosts to high-tech scientist ghosts from the future, Pac-Man has a lot to deal with. Adventures in Time includes room for six players to save (each player can have three saved games), multi player games, cool short videos showing the super-cute Pac-Man, sub-levels which let you earn extra points, and over 45 3D caveman, acient egyptian, medieval, wild west, and future mazes. I don't mean to sound like an add, but this is a really cool game. Oh yeah, and if you buy it, here's a tip: don't use your lives unless you absolutely can't get past a level without. :)