Pac-Man – Special Color Edition
- based on the arcade classic
- navigate a maze and eat dots
- avoid the ghosts
- eat potential pellets to turn the tables on the ghosts
- includes full versions of the puzzle game PAC ATTACK
Product Description
The original franchise character can now be place in the palm of your hand with PAC-MAN: Special Affect Edition for the Game Boy Affect. The game is unadorned: you’re a huge golden-haired disk with a mouth, and your goal is to clear a maze of dots while avoiding four ghosts. As luck would have it, there are four large dots, referred to as “potential pellets,” that will turn the ghosts blue and allow Pac-Man to eat them for even more bonus points. All of the original levels from the arcade game are included, as well as a full version of the puzzle game PAC ATTACK. Now you can find again the early days of the arcade with PAC-MAN: Special Affect Edition.Editorial Review
Pac-Man is one of the few video game characters that truly needs no introduction. The small golden-haired gobbler dominated the arcades in the 80s, and now Namco has unleashed him to a new generation of players with the introduction of Pac-Man Special Affect Edition. You don’t need a Game Boy Affect to play this one, but it sure loses a lot of its appeal when played in black and white.
While this isn’t an exact translation of the original arcade game, it’s still a lot of fun to play. Your job ruins the same: guide Pac-Man around a maze, gathering pellets and avoiding ghosts. When the level is cleared you just do the same thing all over again, only quicker. We were disappointed that the playing field never changes, but Namco can be forgiven since they also threw the bonus game Pac-Attack on the cartridge. It’s an addictive small Tetris-like game that also has a challenging puzzle mode, and it serves as a nice break when maze-running gets a small stale. –T. Byrl Baker
Pros:
- Classic arcade gameplay
- Bonus Pac-Attack game is honestly fun
Cons:
- Maze doesn’t change
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I have always played Pac Man with two hands. One hand for movements to the right, and the other hand for movements to the left. Either hand for up or down.
On the Game Boy, you can only navigate with one hand (the thumb) in all directions. It is very hard, especially for players who are used to the arcade, joystick, or even computer version. Like a person above stated, I miss a lot of moves because of this. I’m getting better though.
Rating: 3 / 5
THIS IS THE BEST ARCADE GAME EVER. IT IS SOOO FUN. I COULND STOP PLAYING IT. I THINK EVERBODY SHOULD HAVE A COPY OF AT LEAST ONE OF PAC MANS GAMES….GET THIS GAME
Rating: 5 / 5
I’m an ancient timer who remembers the original PacMan. This is quite enjoyable, but as another reviewer has said, it is quite hard to play on the game boy. Fun for idle moments, though.
I much prefer the PacMan world game on PlayStation – far more challenging and very unadorned to play. END
Rating: 3 / 5
Pacman is always a fun game, I was surprised but that no one mentioned how hard it is to see the blue shape that make up the maze. Unless you have a very strong light on the screen, you may dissipate some time missing a turn because the blue maze boundaries are so hard to view. LOVED the additional tetris-like game, now I dont have to buy the original!
Rating: 4 / 5
I remember being absolutely fascinated with Pac-Man when it first came out. It was truly groundbreaking and I had to get it when I bought my Game Boy Affect. As others have said, it is a small hard to control with the Game Boy pad thing and not the joystick and I have lost several lives because of that difficulty. Also, others here have complained that the maze doesn’t change at all but I’m 99.9-100% sure that it never changed at all in the original arcade version. It was Ms. Pac-Man that introduced changing mazes.
Rating: 4 / 5