PAC-MAN - Atari 2600 - Game Cart only - VINTAGE Game - Tested
This
is Pac-Man in name only, bearing just a passing resemblance to the
arcade game everyone had come to know and love. In the place of Blinky,
Pinky, Inky and Clyde are flickering, off-white, anonymous ghosts. Next,
a "vitamin" has replaced the fruit. In addition, the scoring isn't
right and the escape routes are in the wrong places. But somehow,
despite its faults, the game ends up having an unexplainable, quirky
charm. Maybe it's the now-familiar opening music, the "bockchoy" sound
when you eat a ghost, or the fact Pac-Man looks more like a square than a
circle. And short of having a full-size arcade game in your living
room, it was the only way to play Pac-Man at home in 1981. For those
interested in a much better Atari 2600 translation of a Pac-Man game,
check out Ms. Pac-Man instead.