Pac-Man (NES) Playthrough - NintendoComplete
303A playthrough of Namco's 1993 maze-action game for the NES, Pac-Man.
Pac-Man is one of the most iconic games of all time. It's the game that finally managed to wrench video games away from their total fixation of shooting at aliens.
And while the NES game isn't a perfect port, it is a title that shows off just how well suited the NES was for early 80s arcade games. The graphics and sound are a bit different and Pac-Man and the ghosts seem a little too fat to fit in their reduced resolution NES maze, but the layout is faithfully reproduced and the ghosts generally follow the same behavior patterns as in they did in the original. Many of the strategies and ideal routes through the maze still work here.
One interesting thing to note about Pac-Man on the NES is that this port was made by Namco themselves for the Famicom in 1984. A few years later, Tengen released the same cart in the US in both licensed and unlicensed forms, and once Tengen had thoroughly pissed off Nintendo, Namco took back the reins and officially rereleased the game under their own name in 1993. All of them are pretty much identical save for the copyright info on the title screen.
It's super old and I far prefer some of its sequels, but Pac-Man for the NES does a nice job of bringing home the arcade experience. I still find it funny to compare it to the Atari 2600 version, which was the one I grew up playing.
(Does anyone else get a big kick out of the ghost's leg when he gets himself caught on the nail?)
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