Pac-Attack (SNES) Playthrough - NintendoComplete
492A playthrough of Namco's 1993 puzzle game for the Super Nintendo, Pac-Attack.
This video shows all 100 stages of the puzzle mode.
Pac-Attack is one of several Pac-Man games that Namco released on consoles during 1993 and 1994. Between the reissues of Pac-Man and Ms. Pac-Man, Pac-Man 2: The New Adventure, Pac-in-Time, and Pac-Attack, the perpetually ravenous yellow circle certainly got around.
Pac-Attack is the series' puzzle-flavored offering of the era, but only in America and Europe. It is actually a reskinned conversion of Namco's 1992 arcade-turned-SFC game Cosmo Gang: The Puzzle. "Pac-Attack" wasn't released in Japan before its inclusion on a compilation disc for the PS1.
It's a falling block game in the vein of Tetris or Dr. Mario, but with a few big twists. Lines can be cleared in the traditional way to wipe blocks from the playing field, and ghosts need to be lined up in chains so that Pac-Man can chomp his way through when he gets dropped into play. The goal in each of the puzzle stages is to eat all of the ghosts with as few Pac-Men as possible.
Pac-Attack is a solid puzzler and is a fun distraction, but it is with good reason that it's not held in the same regard as genre classics. It's simply not as good. The gameplay is too rigid and shallow to stay interesting for long, and the later stages end up being more infuriating than challenging in how they rely so much on luck.
The graphics are clean and bright, though, and I loved the soundtrack. That piano-driven dance music is far better than anything I would've expected to hear in a game like this.
Overall, Pac-Attack is an entertaining game, but it never lives up to the sheer playability of the better known 8 and 16-bit puzzle games. Still, if you're big enough a Pac-Fan, you'll probably find it worth your while.
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No cheats were used during the recording of this video.
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