From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Pac-Man Plus
Pac-Man Plus
Pac-Man Plus allowing Pac-Man to eat them for extra points. When
the maze has been cleared, a new maze is presented and
gameplay continues.
The most noticeable differences between the original
game and Plus are various tweaks to the graphics: The
maze is green instead of blue, vulnerable ghosts are
shortened and have a leaf sticking out of them, the fruits
have been replaced by new items (including a can of
Coca-Cola), and Blinky is slightly cross-eyed. In addition
to these cosmetic changes, Plus also changes the game-
play slightly: Eating an item causes the ghosts to turn
both vulnerable and invisible, and doubles their point
values while they are vulnerable. Eating a Power Pellet
sometimes has unpredictable results, such as turning the
maze invisible or turning only three out of all four ghosts
blue. The ghosts are also faster and more aggressive than
in the original game, making the game seem overall
faster-paced and more difficult.
North American Arcade Flyer
Developer(s) Bally Midway
Development
Despite Midway advertising it as "the only legal PAC-
Publisher(s) Bally Midway MAN conversion package"[1] and claiming it was "New!"
Platform(s) Arcade and "Exciting!"[2], Pac-Man Plus is actually just a single
modifier chip that replaces the game’s program code and
Release 1982
graphics.
date(s)
Genre(s) Maze Ports
Mode(s) Up to 2 players, alternating turns Because there were so few differences between Pac-Man
and Pac-Man Plus and because the game was released
Cabinet Standard
right before the video game crash of 1983, Pac-Man Plus
Arcade Namco Pac-Man was never ported to home video game systems or com-
system puters. However, there have been efforts by some home-
CPU 1x ZiLOG Z80 @ 3.072 MHz brew game developers to port Pac-Man Plus to classic
game consoles such as the Atari 2600,[3] and more recent-
Sound 1x Namco WSG (3-channel mono) @ 3.072
ly the Atari 5200 [4] and the Atari 7800.[5] In addition,
MHz
Jakks Pacific released a new Pac-Man TV Games collection
Display Raster, vertical that featured Pac-Man, Pac-Man Plus, Super Pac-Man, and
Pac & Pal.[6] Pac-Man Plus is also featured in TV Games Pac-
Pac-Man Plus is an arcade game released by Bally Midway Man Gold: Edition.
in 1982, and is the 4th title in the Pac-Man series of games.
Starcade
Gameplay Pac-Man Plus was popular enough to be featured in the
video arcade game show Starcade as one of the games in
The gameplay in Pac-Man Plus is nearly identical to that
rotation.
of the original Pac-Man. The player controls Pac-Man and
attempts to score as many points as possible by eating all
the Pac-Dots in the maze, while avoiding the ghosts that References
roam the maze. Eating a Power Pellet causes the ghosts [1] Quoted from the official flyer
to turn blue and become vulnerable for a brief period,
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Pac-Man Plus
[2] Quoted from the game’s marquee - see
http://www.emdkay.net/catalog/pacman-plus-
External links
marquee-p-141.html for an example • Pac-Man Plus at the Killer List of Videogames
[3] Atari 2600 Hacks from AtariAge • Pac-Man Plus guide at StrategyWiki
[4] 5200: Pac-Man Plus Version .1 from AtariAge • Pacman Plus with Java emulator
[5] 7800: Pac-Man Plus from AtariAge
[6] JAKKS Pacific, Inc. press release
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