ADG Episode 88 - CD-Man

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Published on March 27, 2015 3:16:05 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKn2II_h94o

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Duration: 8:46

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Originally Released: June 2nd, 2012

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Pac Man was highly popular in arcades and with such a simple concept you'd figure PC ports and clones would be decent... except most weren't. Even the actual port of Pac Man in the early days of DOS was lacking.

CD-Man isn't exactly the greatest clone out there, but it didn't have much competition to run against and is still better than most of the PC-based Pac Man games of the time.

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Additional Information and Corrections:

* Unfortunately, Download Central doesn't exist anymore, which means finding the pre-release version of CD-Man anymore might be really tricky. The proper shareware release can be found here: https://www.dosgames.com/game/cd-man/

* I didn't explain the power pellets because... umm... do I really have to? They make it so that enemies are worth points instead of death. Though actually, unlike in the original Pac-Man, the enemies each change back to normal individually and at different speeds, which makes them less predictable and the game harder.

* There's actually a couple versions of the pre-release, the later of which has a special screen prior to starting up to indicate that the full game can be purchased. There's also supposedly a full release that has the Pac-Man pie-slice character instead of the Snoofer, but my research couldn't prove one way or another if this actually exists. :P

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