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The object is to roll the dice and move your Pac-Man playing piece around the maze gobbling up as many marbles as you can using the count on one die, and move either ghost pawn using the count on the other die. There are also two ghosts pawns of the same color in the game. There are also yellow marbles representing the power pills in the maze. In this board game, the dots in the maze are represented by white marbles. MB (Milton Bradley) released a board game based on this video game in 1982 (Pac-Man Game, 'As Much Fun as the Action Packed Arcade Game of the Same Name'). It is where Amy (Melinda Culea) meets Murdock (Dwight Schultz) for the first time. A Pac-Man unit appears in the pilot of Season One of 'The A-Team'.

JAKKS NAMCO MS PACMAN GAME MOVIE

A Pac-Man unit appears in the movie 'Getting There', in the 1982 movie 'Jekyll & Hyde - Together Again', in the 1982 movie 'Fast Times at Ridgemont High', in the 1983 movie 'WarGames', in the 1983 movie 'Joysticks', in the 1983 movie 'Koyaanisqatsi - Life out of Balance', in the 1985 movie 'The Heavenly Kid', in the 1985 movie 'Better Off Dead', and in the 1986 movie 'The Color of Money'.

JAKKS NAMCO MS PACMAN GAME HOW TO

The game also spawned a virtual cottage industry of best-selling how-to books strategy guides on how to beat the game by using patterns with names like the "Bazo's Breaker", the "Donut Dazzler" and the "GET pattern" (named after the first initials of the members of a team of players from Davis, California: George Huang, Ed Bazo, and Tom Fertado). The game's cult status in the early 80's was such that it inspired a hit song by 'Buckner and Garcia' called 'Pac-Man Fever', released in 1982 on the album of the same name.

Unlike the Japanese version, the American version has no DIP switch for alternate ghost names.

Notice that the pink ghost's nickname remains unchanged from the Japanese version.

Shadow - "Blinky" (red ghost) Speedy - "Pinky" (pink ghost) Bashful - "Inky" (cyan ghost) Pokey - "Clyde" (orange ghost)

The name/nickname combinations for the ghosts in this version are:.

Refer to the Namco Upright version entry, Trivia section, for details behind this name change.

The game's name (and likewise its main character) has been changed to Pac-Man.

Midway made the following changes to the game (from the original Namco version): Bally/Midway, meanwhile, took Pac-Man and "Rally-X". The other game they got was released as "King & Balloon". Game Plan won and chose a tank game (which they released as "Tank Battalion") over Pac-Man. Game Plan's Ken Anderson reports that he and Bally's Dave Marofske flipped a coin to see who would get first crack at the games. Reportedly, when Bally/Midway obtained the rights to Pac-Man, Namco was offering four different games, which ended up being licensed to Game Plan and Bally/Midway.

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932 TRIVIA Pac-Man was released in October 1980 in North America by Bally/Midway, under license from Namco. For more information about the game itself, please see the original Japanese release entry, "Puckman ". Game developed by Namco and originally known as Puckman in Japan. Export release by Bally/Midway for North America. NOTICE: These are informations from parent game pacman - Pac-Man (Midway)Arcade Video game published 42 years ago: Pac-Man © 1980 Midway Mfg.