ORIGINAL PAC MAN 256 PS4

To aid in your march up the leaderboards Hipster Whale and 3 Sprocket has added a whole host of ghostbusting powerups to proceedings and amazingly none of them interfere with or break the classic gameplay.īy doing what a Pac-Man does and eating every pac-dot in sight you’ll gain access to hurricanes, stealth, trails of destructive fire, mini pac-men who devour every ghost in sight, a proximity bomb and ghost-blasting laser, to name a few of the tons on offer here. Blue ghosts traverse corridors in a repeated pattern, orange drop in a straight line, red acts like a homing missile while pink (or Pinky) waits for visual contact before striking at speed to put an end to your pellet munching.Īll of the classic gameplay is here and it isn’t long before you find yourself back in that Pac-Man trance, slowly transitioning from the panicked charge forward of a newbie to a much more considered, side to side means of traversal, scanning the horizon, planning your advance and making those signature last second escapes to, very temporary, victory. You’ll instantly recognise your enemies if you’ve played a Pac-Man game in the past and slowly but surely begin to relearn their various behaviours as those dormant Pac-Man skills begin to come back online. Taking its clever cue from the infamous level 256 glitch in the original Pac-Man game, which would see the right hand side of the player’s screen turn into a jumbled soup of letter and numbers, here that soup become a tsunami, slowly engulfing everything in its path, devouring all before it and pushing the player headlong through an endless maze filled with randomly generated ghosts, pickups and power-ups. However, what Crossy Road creators Hipster Whale and 3 Sprockets, of Cubemen fame, have created here is an entertaining and addictive mash-up of classic Pac-Man gameplay and endless runner which works really well and has kept me glued to my screen for far more hours than its miniscule price-tag suggested it could.

ORIGINAL PAC MAN 256 PS4

With the release of Pac-Man 99, fans looking to try some other games from the series may want to see where they rank among the rest according to critics and gamers everywhere.I’m not a big endless runner fan, so, when asked to review a budget PS4 Pac-Man endless runner game I fully expected something that would pass ten fidgety minutes before being thrown on the scrapheap with the rest of its ilk, “go back to mobile gaming where you belong!” Suffice to say the Pac-Man franchise has had a few highs and lows. RELATED: Pac-Man: 10 Things You Never Knew About The Classic Video Game In fact, Pac-Man was partially responsible for the gaming industry's crash in 1983, thanks to the awful, yet high selling, Atari 2600 port of the arcade game, which is still considered one of the worst games of all time. Unfortunately for the circular hero, he hasn't reached anywhere near the same success on home consoles as he did on arcades.

The original game's main strength was that it perfected the arcade formula of making a game simple yet addictive and punishing, encouraging players to keep putting coins in as they're convinced they can top their high score with their next try. Once the gaming industry's most recognizable mascot character, Pac-Manwas a dominant force in the arcades during their golden age.

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