Pac-Mania

Time to beat

Main story

50.3 h8 reports

Main + extras

74 h7 reports

Completionist

128.3 h4 reports

Median of the hours reported by players who completed the game.

Synopsis

Pac-Mania is a 1987 maze video game developed and published by Namco for arcades. It was released by Atari Games in North America. In the game, the player controls Pac-Man as he must eat all of the dots while avoiding the colored ghosts that chase him in the maze. Eating large flashing "Power Pellets" will allow Pac-Man to eat the ghosts for bonus points, which lasts for a short period of time. A new feature to this game allows Pac-Man to jump over the ghosts to evade capture. It is the ninth title in the Pac-Man video game series and was the last one developed for arcades up until the release of Pac-Man Arrangement in 1996. Development was directed by Pac-Man creator Tōru Iwatani. Pac-Mania gained a highly positive critical reception for its originality 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.

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Details

Type

Game

Release date

November 1, 1987

Genres

action game, maze video game

Platforms

Acorn Archimedes, Commodore Amiga, Nintendo Entertainment System, Atari ST, Commodore 64, MSX, Amstrad CPC, Sega Genesis, iOS, ZX Spectrum

Created by

Namco

Countries

Japan

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