Product Description: The original franchise character can now be put in the palm of your hand with PAC-MAN: Special Color Edition for the Game Boy Color. The game is simple: you're a big yellow 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 "power 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 relive the early days of the arcade with PAC-MAN: Special Color Edition.
Editorial Review: Pac-Man is one of the few video game characters that truly needs no introduction. The little yellow 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 Color Edition. You don't need a Game Boy Color 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 remains 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 faster. 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 little Tetris-like game that also has a challenging puzzle mode, and it serves as a nice break when maze-running gets a little stale. --T. Byrl Baker
Pros:
Classic arcade gameplay
Bonus Pac-Attack game is fairly fun
Cons:
Maze doesn't change
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - BEST ARCADE GAME EVER...
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: - Difficult on the Game Boy
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 difficult, 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: - Get 2 for 1
Pacman is always a fun game, I was surprised however that no one mentioned how hard it is to see the blue lines that make up the maze. Unless you have a very strong light on the screen, you may waste 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: - The king of all video games
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 Color. As others have said, it is a little 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: - Quite enjoyable
I'm an old timer who remembers the original PacMan. This is quite enjoyable, but as another reviewer has said, it is quite difficult 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 simple to play. END
- BEST ARCADE GAME EVER...
- Difficult on the Game Boy
- Get 2 for 1
