Pac-Mania - Sega Genesis Retro Replay
7Played through the four boards available to play so you got a good view of each. Interesting perspective of the boards while playing and I like how they have incorporated the jump feature for Pac-Man.. Cool game! With so many variations of Pac-Man out there to play this one is at the top for myself.
A little about the game:
Pac-Mania is a cavalier perspective maze game that was developed and released by Namco for arcades in 1987. Pac-Mania gained a highly-positive critical reception for its uniqueness and gameplay. It was nominated for "Best Coin-Op Conversion of the Year" at the Golden Joystick Awards in 1987, although it lost to Taito's Operation Wolf. Pac-Mania was ported to several home consoles and computers, including the Atari ST, MSX2, Sega Genesis and Nintendo Entertainment System, the last of which being published by Tengen. Several Pac-Man and Namco video game collections also included the game. Ports for the Wii Virtual Console, iOS and mobile phones were also produced.
Pac-Mania is a maze game viewed from an oblique perspective and with a gameplay similar to the franchise's original installment. The player controls Pac-Man, a yellow circular creature that must eat all of the pellets in each stage while avoiding five colored ghosts named Blinky, Pinky, Inky, Clyde and Sue. Eating large Power Pellets will cause the ghosts to turn blue and flee, allowing Pac-Man to eat them for bonus points and send them to the house in the middle of the stage. Clearing the stage of dots and pellets will allow Pac-Man to move to the next.
New to this game is the ability to jump over the ghosts, allowing Pac-Man to evade capture. Later levels of the game introduce two new ghosts, Funky and Spunky, who also have the ability to jump while in Sandbox Land and Jungly Steps. While Pac-Man can still barely jump over Funky, it is impossible to jump over Spunky. Eating a certain number of pellets will cause a bonus item to appear in the middle of the stage, which Pac-Man can eat up for points. Some of these bonus items are called Special Items, which are items from later levels, or are Red and Green Power Pellets. Red Power Pellets double the point values of blue ghosts (this bonus is lost if Pac-Man loses a life), and Green Power Pellets temporarily increase Pac-Man's speed. If the player makes Pac-Man stay on the same stage for too long, his jump strength weakens until he cannot jump at all, making him unable to jump over Funky as well.
Developer - Namco
Publisher - Namco
Director - Toru Iwatani
Programmer - Taro Shimizu
Artist - Akira Usukura
Composer - Junko Ozawa
Series - Pac-Man
Platform - Arcade Release September 11, 1987
Genre - Maze
Mode - Single-player, multiplayer
Arcade system - Namco System 1
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