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The StarSoldier
GAME OF THE MONTH COLLECTION! PAC MAN |
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| Artist
touch: The characters look kinda of funny especially since Pac Man has
legs but they work. Cover art rating: 7/10 |
Month
it won: September 2005
(Namco/Midway, 1980) |
Special note: Pac
Man was perhaps the first ever marketable video game character! He has
graced cereal boxes, he got his own music album (Pac Man Fever), various
toys, a board game, he even had his own TV show and lots more!
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| Introduction and Story: |
| If anyone
is a fan of my little website here (all 12 of you) then maybe you remember
when I gave Ms. Pac Man
Game of the Month a few years back? In that old review I said that when
September 2005 arrived I joking said that Pac Man would win
the GOTM. I honestly didn't believe this site would last this long (I thought
it would turn into a porn site myself, eh?) but since it survived and since
I said it would make it GOTM, here is the one and only Pac Man! Pac Man is the original 1980's legend that took the video game industry to a whole new level. Pac Man's creator's, Toru Iwatani, actually got the idea for the legendary character by eating a pizza with some of the slices missing, he wondered what if the roles were reversed and the pizza itself was hungry? Pac Man is born! |
| Controls and Game Play: | |
The
objective in the game is simple: you are a little round yellow creature
named Pac Man, and you must complete the level be eating up at the dots
on the screen while avoiding the 4 pesky ghosts Blinky, Pinky, Inky, and
Clyde, that are trying to hunt him down. The 4 ghosts each act differently
like Blinky (Red) is the aggressive guy, Pinky (Pink) is the sneaky one
and is quite smart, Inky (Blue) can scare easily if you look at him and
is not too smart, and Clyde (Orange) acts randomly and is the dumbest
of the four but he can still get mad. Blinky and Pinky are the ones to
watch out for because they always seem to know where Pac Man is on the
board but as Pac Man moves from level to level they all get more cleaver.
As you finish each level the game gets slightly faster each time and it
here's were the real fun starts. Thankfully
for our brave hungry hero that he can eat one of four corner flashing
power pellets so he can become the hunter now on the those rotten ghosts
and eat them for points but only for a short time, be careful after the
ghost have been eaten because they can easily regenerate themselves thanks
to the center gate and they are going to be pretty angry. The now eatable
dark blue ghosts even give you more bonus points as you eat more than
one. As you eat each ghost the points you
earn are doubled so it's 200pts for the first, 400pts for the second,
800pts for the third, and a huge 1600pts for the last but you should also
know that the ghosts will run away after you got that power pellet so
eating them all is not as easy as it sounds and in the later levels the
time you have to eat the ghost gets shorter and shorter. |
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| Graphics and Sounds: |
| Since
this is the first Pac Man game, there is only one maze throughout the
entire game and the characters are cute and cartoon like but that all
can get a little boring visually to the modern gamer. You can rest assure
however that this is way better looking then Atari's
Pac Man for the 2600, that old Coleco Table Top Pac Man,
and many other rushed portable Pac Man's too. Like the graphics, the sound's are all fittingly cute. Pac Man makes the constant waka-waka sound that gets faster and faster as the more he eats. Pac Man also makes a sound as he munches on each pellet, or ghost. There are cool sounds for the original start up music, the intermission jiggle, and the death scene music is here too. It's all very cool sounding for what's there. |
| The Bottomline: |
| "It's the original mega hit we all know and love!" The game has cute graphics, fun sounds, and who could forget the interesting game play that turned Pac Man into a legend. Pac Man and his ghost enemies was also some of the first video game characters to be marketable thanks to their clever designs. OK, the game may be super old but the game play is timeless and if you never played it before you are one stupid pathetic loser that deserves to be made fun of. |
| Conclusion: | |
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PAC
MAN
overall rating: 80/100 For 1 player only graphics: 4/10 sound: 4/10 gameplay: 4/10 replay: 8/10 -StarSoldier1 (Ryan Genno) 2005 See the other Games of the Month |
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