Current Events > Have you ever actually played Pac-Man?

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Do you think it's a great game, or just "great for when it came out"?

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Yea. Ive played it in arcades. Also we had Ms Pacman on atari 2600 when I was in grade school. I think its a good game that never ages. It's one of those timeless classics.

Yeah, someone I knew had a pac man arcade machine in their house when I was a kid.

I dont really play the classics nowadays.
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Yep

Even played a 4 player arcade party version of it

Only had 3 people but hey

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Both Pac Man and Ms. Pac Man in arcades. The Ms. Pacman even came as a table.

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Yep, but as part of a collection on my mom's old PC years ago. Said collection also had Dig Dug, Galaxian, and Pole Position.

I preferred Dig Dug.

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Yeah, the local pizza place in the early 90s had one. I don't care much for it because I've always sucked at it.

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Still play it fairly regularly. There's actually a machine in the lobby of my apartment complex. Whenever I'm in public at a bar or something, I have a hard time passing up a machine without putting in a couple quarters.

Great it just gets repetitive fast

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I'm playing pacman on my 3ds.

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I played it in the Namco Museum collection on PS1.

It's fun for like...5 minutes I guess. I don't think I would be a big fan of video games if I grew up in the 80s.

ive played it

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I grew up with Pac-Man.

I loved Dig Dug too!

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im 29 so i obviously wasnt around when it came out, but ive played it in arcades, on home consoles and various ports/remakes of it

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Pac-man arcade cabinets used to be everywhere, i'm pretty sure I've popped a quarter into one at some point or another.

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Pac-Man's alright these days but his significant other's game has aged much, much better.

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My first taste of Pac-man was on the Atari. My god, that game was trash.

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My grandfather had an Atari 2600 and a case full of games. This was one of the first video games I played. The shittiest arcade port of all time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCPpgt0s70U

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I played it in the 80s on the Atari.
To this day, I have never seen anyone better at pacman than my mum back then.

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Yeah, I've had several home ports over the years including more recent ones that are literally the original arcade version running on an emulator (I'm talking about in legally purchased collections like Namco Museum, don't go getting your panties in a twist mods).
It's fun to play once in a while, I'm not horrible at it but I'm not great or able to memorize patterns or anything either. Like I can typically get to around the 6th or 7th level at least.

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yes
pretty fun tbqh

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Uh yeah? Who the hell hasn't played it?

I'm semi decent at it til the higher levels,supposedly there is patterns that the goes go by but I don't understand it at all.

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Yes. A pizza place we went to when I was a kid had one.

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I remember getting the high score back in the day playing at an arcade.

Then a couple weeks later went back only to discover I was no longer on the list. Spent like $5 trying to regain my place at the top.

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Yes, on my Atari 2600!

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*Pac-Person

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Yeah it was one of my first games. I think I had the gamegear port. It's fun in short bursts like arcade games should be

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ForsakenHermit posted...

Pac-Man's alright these days but his significant other's game has aged much, much better.

I honestly don't get the difference. Isn't it just the same kind of game?

dameon_reaper posted...

I honestly don't get the difference. Isn't it just the same kind of game?

Oh, the one I played was actually Ms. Pac-Man. I didn't realize there were differences, but there are.

• The game has four mazes that appear in different color schemes and alternate after each of the game's intermissions are seen. The pink maze appears in levels one and two; the light blue maze appears in levels three, four, and five; the brown maze appears in levels six to nine; and the dark blue maze appears in levels 10 to 14. After level 14, the maze configurations alternate every fourth level.
• Three of the four mazes (the first, second, and fourth ones) have two sets of warp tunnels, as opposed to only one in the original maze.
• The walls have a solid color rather than an outline, which makes it easier for a novice player to see where the paths around the mazes are.
• The monsters' behavioral patterns are different, and include semi-random movement, which prevents the use of patterns to clear each round. Blinky (red) and Pinky (pink) move randomly in the first several seconds of each level, until the first reversal. Inky (cyan) and Sue (orange) still use the same movement patterns from the previous game to their respective corners, again until the first reversal.
• Instead of appearing in the center of the maze, the fruits bounce randomly around the maze, entering and (if not eaten) leaving through the warp tunnels. Once all fruit has been encountered, they appear in random sequence for the rest of the game, starting on the eighth round; a 5000-point banana can be followed by a 100-point pair of cherries.

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dameon_reaper posted...

I honestly don't get the difference. Isn't it just the same kind of game?

I looked it up and apparently there is only one maze in Pac-Man. Ms Pac-Man has 4 mazes

Who hasn't?

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