Pac-Man (Arcade)

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Pac-Man
Pac-Man
Pac-Man (Arcade) Cabinet.jpg
Publisher: Midway Manufacturing Company
Developer: Namco
Alternative Title: Puckman (US)
Release date: JP: date/monthintext/1979
NA: date/monthintext/1980
EU: date/monthintext/year
AU: date/monthintext/year
Genre: Maze
Number of Players: Number of players
Rating: ESRB - ESRB-rating
PEGI/ELSPA - PEGI-rating
CERO - CERO-rating
Platform: Arcade


Arcade hardware:

Image:Namco PuckMan_thumblogo.pngNamco PuckMan
Media: ROM
Online Functions: No
Amazon:

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Pac-Man, originally published and marketted in Japan as Puckman by Namco, is a simple Maze game where the lead character (PuckMan / Pac-Man) must eat all the blue dots on the screen before being caught by four adversaries: four individualised ghosts. The ghosts names changed with the region the game was released in to fit their market.

The name of the game and character was changed by Midway under licence due to the close similarity between Puckman and a certain swear word popular in the western world.

Story

One of the most successful games and franchises, Pac-Man humbly began over a plate of pizza being eaten by Toru Iwatani in 1977. After nearly 1 and a half years, Toru Iwatani, lead programmer Hideyuki Mokajima and another three unnamed individuals had created the original Puckman.


Formats

Ghost Names

Ghost Names in Pac-Man, clones and derivatives
Variation Platform Released Main Character Ghost #1 Ghost #2 Ghost #3 Ghost #4
PuckMan Arcade 1979 Image:Namco PuckMan_thumblogo.png Image:Pac-Man Red Ghost.pngOikake - "Akabei" Image:Pac-Man Pink Ghost.pngMachibuse - "Pinky" Image:Pac-Man Cyan Ghost.pngKimagure - "Aosuke" Image:Pac-Man Orange Ghost.pngOtobuke - "Guzuta"
Pac-Man Arcade 1980 Image:Namco PuckMan_thumblogo.png Image:Pac-Man Red Ghost.pngShadow - "Blinky" Image:Pac-Man Pink Ghost.pngSpeedy - "Pinky" Image:Pac-Man Cyan Ghost.pngBashful - "Inky" Image:Pac-Man Orange Ghost.pngPokey - "Clyde"
New Puck-X Arcade 1980 Image:Namco PuckMan_thumblogo.png Image:Pac-Man Red Ghost.pngShadow - "Blinky" Image:Pac-Man Pink Ghost.pngSpeedy - "Pinky" Image:Pac-Man Cyan Ghost.pngBashful - "Inky" Image:Pac-Man Orange Ghost.pngPokey - "Clyde"
Newpuc1 Arcade 1980 Image:Namco PuckMan_thumblogo.png Image:Pac-Man Red Ghost.pngOikake - "Akabei" Image:Pac-Man Pink Ghost.pngMachibuse - "Pinky" Image:Pac-Man Cyan Ghost.pngKimagure - "Aosuke" Image:Pac-Man Orange Ghost.pngOtobuke - "Guzuta"
Newpuc2 v.1 Arcade 1980 Image:Namco PuckMan_thumblogo.png Image:Pac-Man Red Ghost.pngNantonaku - "Crystal" Image:Pac-Man Pink Ghost.pngMachibuse - "Pinky" Image:Pac-Man Cyan Ghost.pngNuckarumi - "Michan" Image:Pac-Man Orange Ghost.pngOtobuke - "Guzuta"
Newpuc2 v.2 Arcade 1980 Image:Namco PuckMan_thumblogo.png Image:Pac-Man Red Ghost.pngSmokey The - "Bandito" Image:Pac-Man Pink Ghost.pngKermit Is - "Froggy" Image:Pac-Man Cyan Ghost.pngTony The - "Tiger" Image:Pac-Man Orange Ghost.pngCharly The - "Tuna"
Pac-Man on Galaxian hardware Arcade 19?? Image:Namco PuckMan_thumblogo.png Image:Pac-Man (Galaxian) Red Ghost.pngUrchin - Macky Image:Pac-Man (Galaxian) Pink Ghost.pngRomp - Micky Image:Pac-Man (Galaxian) Cyan Ghost.pngStylist - Mucky Image:Pac-Man (Galaxian) Orange Ghost.pngCrybaby - Mocky
Ms. Pac-Man Arcade 1981 Image:Ms. Pac-Man.png Image:Pac-Man Red Ghost.pngBlinky Image:Pac-Man Pink Ghost.pngPinky Image:Pac-Man Cyan Ghost.pngInky Image:Pac-Man Orange Ghost.pngSue
Caterpillar Arcade 1981 Image:Caterpillar Pac-Man.png Image:Caterpillar Pac-Man Red Spider.pngHarry Image:Caterpillar Pac-Man Pink Spider.pngSabina Image:Caterpillar Pac-Man Cyan Spider.pngCharlotte Image:Caterpillar Pac-Man Orange Spider.pngWebster
Joyman Arcade 1982 Image:Joyman.png Image:Joyman Red Monster.pngRed Monster Image:Joyman Pink Monster.pngPink Monster Image:Joyman Blue Monster.pngBlue Monster Image:Joyman Orng Monster.pngOrng Monster
Hangly-Man Arcade 1984 Image:Namco PuckMan_thumblogo.png Image:Pac-Man Red Ghost.pngOikake / "Akabei" Image:Pac-Man Pink Ghost.pngMachibuse / "Pinky" Image:Pac-Man Cyan Ghost.pngKimagure / "Aosuke" Image:Pac-Man Orange Ghost.pngOtobuke / "Guzuta"
Pac-Man Mobile 2003 Image:Namco PuckMan_thumblogo.png Image:Pac-Man Red Ghost.pngShadow - "Blinky" Image:Pac-Man Pink Ghost.pngSpeedy - "Pinky" Image:Pac-Man Cyan Ghost.pngBashful - "Inky" Image:Pac-Man Orange Ghost.pngPokey - "Clyde"


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Cabinets

PuckMan / Pac-Man Cabinets
PuckMan cabinet
PuckMan cabinet
Pac-man cabinet
Pac-man cabinet

Screenshots

PuckMan / Pac-Man Screenshots
PuckMan title screen
PuckMan title screen
Pac-man title screen
Pac-man title screen
The one & only maze!
The one & only maze!

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Bootlegs

Pac-Man Bootlegs
Image:Abscam (Arcade) Title.png
Abscam
Caterpillar - a hack of Pac-Man with a spider/caterpillar theme. Copyright shows 1981 BY PHI.
Caterpillar - a hack of Pac-Man with a spider/caterpillar theme. Copyright shows 1981 BY PHI.
Joyman
Joyman title screen
Joyman title screen
Joyman maze
Joyman maze
New Puck-X maze. The title screen changes the text to read DELUXE.
New Puck-X maze. The title screen changes the text to read DELUXE.
Newpuc1
The graphic for the pills is changed to a heart - making this version commonly known as the Hearts bootleg.
Pac-Man bootleg on Galaxian hardware
Colours changed making the ghosts look somewhat evil. Otherwise much the same as the original.

Newpuc2

Newpuc2 Bootlegs
Newpuc2 title screen - ghosts chasing
Newpuc2 title screen - ghosts chasing
Newpuc2 title screen - ghosts running away
Newpuc2 title screen - ghosts running away
Maze
Maze
Newpuc2 title screen from latter version
Newpuc2 title screen from latter version
Newpuc2 was produced in 1980 by Kamiya. Two different naming conventions were used though the maze was the same in both. The GAME OVER text in the first would show instead MADE BY KAMIYA and in the latter version LINEAR EJECT. Also, after eating a pill, the ghosts' graphics had been altered.

Hangly-Man

Hangly-Man Bootlegs
Nittoh title screen
Nittoh title screen
1984 title screen
1984 title screen
Maze
Maze
Hangly-Man was made in 1984 by Nittoh. In addition to the maze layout change, the maze would become invisible or disappear depending on the level attained.

Emulation

Known to be emulated in MAME since version 0.1.

Non-MAME

Pac-Man and it's variants were emulated before MAME by Nicola Salmoria (the original author of MAME) in an emulator called Multipac. Indeed, MAME v0.1 grew out of Multipac's v0.8.

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This game is part of the Pac-Man series. A list of all series can be found in the Series Category
editPuckMan/Pac-Man | Ms. Pac-Man | Super Pac-Man | Pac-Man Plus | Pac & Pal | Jr Pac-Man | Professor Pac-Man | Pac-Land | Pac-Mania | Pac-Attack | Ms. Pac-Man: Special Edition | Pac-Man 2: The New Adventures | Pac-In-Time | Ms. Pac-Man Maze Madness | Pac-Man Collection (GBA) | Pac-Man World | Pac-Man Fever | Pac-Man World 2 | Pac-Man Vs (GameCube) | Pac-Man World 3 | Pac-mania 3D (Mobile) | Pac 'n' Roll (DS) | Pac-Man World Rally


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