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Pac-Man is a venerable franchise. He has also branched out in just as many genres as Mario has. Nintendo still holds the prize for the platforming and kart racing genres. Namco’s yellow dot eater certainly has laid down a formidable challenge in nearly ever other genre though. The Nintendo Game Boy release in 1990 was […]
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Pac-Man 40th Anniversary Book Announced
May 24th, 2020 
Carl Williams Pac-Man 40th Anniversary continues with a book this time. Announced by Bandai Namco and release coming from Cook and Becker, this is a high-end design book. Fans interested in the history of Pac-Man and interviews with the original designers will want this Pac-Man book. Billed as a luxury coffee table book, the Pac-Man 40th Anniversary […]
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My Arcade Announces Commemorative Pac-Man 40th Anniversary Micro Player
May 23rd, 2020 Carl Williams Pac-Man 40th Anniversary items are coming. Just when you thought you had seen all the Pac-Man stuff, more is announced. Seriously, how many ways will gamers support a game like Pac-Man? Is there really that large a market for the yellow guy? We have surpassed Capcom and Nintendo re-releases with no improvements by this point. […]
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Pac-Land Diverges Pac-Man Formula for Arcades – December 25th, 1984 – Today in Video Game History
December 24th, 2018 Carl Williams Let’s go back to a simpler time. The 1980’s. A time when the rumor mill was alive and well, the Internet was a science fiction trope, and arcades ruled. One title that ruled the arcades in the early 80’s was Pac-Man by Namco. By 1984 though, the yellow dot eater was running long in the […]
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There is No Cure For Pac-Man Fever. I’m Living Proof
July 30th, 2016 Thor Thorvaldson Good day, everyone! New guy Thor here, but I guess “new” is a relative term considering I’m 44 years old. As you may have guessed, I’ve been playing games for a VERY long time: I recall playing one of those mid-seventies 3-game Pong home machines during the mid-seventies, but I consider my official initiation into […]
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Japan Catches Pac-Man Fever – May 21st, 1980 – Today in Video Game History
May 21st, 2016 Carl Williams Where were you today in 1980? Myself, I was probably fumbling around the backyard and trying to learn to tie my own shoes. I was four years old. I found out about Pac-Man a few years later when I was exposed to it on the Atari 2600. It would be several years after this that […]
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Pac-Man 2 Homebrew Released for Atari 2600
September 12th, 2015 Carl Williams Before you get to thinking this is a port of Pac-Man 2: The New Adventures from the 16-bit platforms, calm down. It is not. This is a hack of the original Pac-Man with new levels and improved all around over what Atari forced on us back in the day. Pac-Man 2 is hard, you are […]
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Pac-Man on Atari 2600 Receives Much Improved Version by Homebrew Developer
September 7th, 2015 Carl Williams The original Pac-Man for the Atari 2600 was a crappy game, no doubt about it. Atari probably knew very well that they shouldn’t have released it like it was but they did anyhow. Call it greed, call it stupidity, call it whatever you want. The point is, it was a crap game. Leave it to […]
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Pac-Man 256 Review, the Classic Title is now an Endless Runner and It Rocks
August 21st, 2015 Carl Williams Okay, messing with the classics can be a tough thing to do right. Just look at what happened in the late 90’s with Battlezone by Activision. What a mess that was. There have been a few other attempts over the years to update classics such as Asteroids, Battlezone, Missile Command and more but those were […]
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Bandit Gaming- Pac-Man Arcade for Commodore 64 Enters Alpha Stage
February 18th, 2015 Carl Williams Ah, Pac-Man, the arcade title that Namco almost released with the name “Puck-Man” sees another chance on the Commodore 64. Hokuto Force decided the 1983 original release of Pac-Man was kind of lacking so they are doing something about it- making a version that is worthy of the name, Pac-Man. Recently Pac-Man was featured in […]
