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 Pac-Man: A game about gluttony that’s been ported to every system that anyone cares about and plenty that no one does. Everyone knows what this game is, even your grandma. Somehow, there are still arguments in Smash Bros threads about whether he’s a relevant character in today’s video game culture, and that’s dumb, who cares. Pac-Man rules. Let’s talk about Pac-Man and his weird sequels and spinoffs. Make tier lists, fan art, whatever it is you do. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFb6hCFwe2w I’ll start with the arcade games, even though the most important title, Pac-Man 2: The New Adventures, was a console title. Arcade Titles: Almost all Pac games involve running around mazes eating dots, ghosts, and fruit/garbage. The best game in the series doesn’t, but we’ll get to that. Pac-Man (1980) was a huge hit for Namco, and Midway was quick to both license it for Western distribution and create their own knockoffs. The most famous was Ms. Pac-Man (1982), an obviously better game than the original and starred gaming’s first well-rounded female hero. That same year, Midway also released Pac-Man Plus, which is basically the original game with some cosmetic differences and power ups that sometimes turn either the ghosts or the mazes invisible. Turns out that wasn’t fun at all, and no one really remembers this one. The first official Namco sequel is 1982’s Super Pac-Man. The dots are gone, replaced by apples which are kept behind locked doors. Players eat keys to open doors, Power Pellets to turn ghosts blue and eat them, and Super Pellets to grow stupid huge and rampage through doors. It’s pretty good, but Ms. Pac-Man’s still the better game.  1983 gave us two more Pac games, so anyone complaining about games getting too many sequels today is really dumb. Midway’s Jr. Pac-man is the classic game but set in way bigger, scrolling mazes and you eat bikes like Homer did when he became Krusty. As the bikes/kites/trash you eat wanders the playing field it fattens up any dots it touches, making them worth more points but taking longer to eat.  Namco’s sequel this year was Pac & Pal, in which Pac-Man teams up with a green ghost girl named Miru who steals your junk. Like Super Pac-man, the game’s all about unlocking doors, but this time you’re flipping over cards instead of eating keys. Power ups include a trumpet, a snowman, the car from Rally-X, and more. Each lets you burp out different projectile attacks. You can finally kill your enemies with the power of brass.  It’s a close tie for “weirdest arcade Pac game” between Pac Land (1984), a pretty bad platformer that’s getting resurrected as a stage in Smash Bros 4, and Professor Pac-Man, a game where players answer really dumb multiple choice questions. To Midway’s surprise, no one wanted to play a game where you have to identify differences between shapes and Namco severed their relationship shortly after its release. Pac Land isn’t a good game, but at least it’s not Professor Pac-Man, and you can jump on top of cars and hit on giant fairy women.  In 1987, Namco released Pac-Mania, a traditional Pac maze game with an isometric view of the field. Players can jump over ghosts, the music rules, and there’s way more ghosts than usual. Since your field of view is pretty limited, it’s easy to get cornered. This game’s appeared in a bunch of collections but it’s still fairly obscure. The final classic style Pac-man game released in arcades was 1996’s Pac-Man Arrangement, which was on a multigame machine that also included remixes of Dig Dug and Rally-X. most people who have played this game probably played it in the Game Boy Advance Pac-Man Collection. It features a couple of different speed power ups, boss fights, environmental doodads to mess with, and simultaneous multiplayer. The title was reused for a home version released on the PSP, Xbox 360, and PS3, and while the newer Arrangement shares plenty of elements with the 1996 version, it’s actually a different game with totally different mazes.  Jumping up to the modern day we have 2011’s Pac-Man Battle Royale, a four player death match game where each player controls a differently colored Pac-Man. You can get huge with a Super Pellet and eat your friends or block their path and knock them into ghosts. It uses the visuals of 2007’s amazing Pac-Man Championship Edition and is ridiculously fun with four players. It took three years for a home version to be released as part of Namco’s Pac-Man Museum on 360, PS3, and Windows, but unfortunately the home version is pretty lazy and features no customization options and no online play. Up next: Console games, weird merchandise, knockoffs, cartoons. Post your tier lists now.  That's not me, sorry guys 
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Not ready to write up this one yet, but Pac-Man CE DX (ie. the best one that's not The New Adventures) is $2.50 on Steam right now. http://store.steampowered.com/app/236450/
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Jun 20, 2014 04:17
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If you want to play all those weird old Pac Man games on your PC, Pac-Man Museum is on sale on Steam for $4.99 right now. It has all the standard stuff like Pac-Man, Super Pac-Man, and Pac-Land, some more modern stuff like Pac-Man Championship Edition and Pac-Man Battle Royale (the 4 player one), and weirder stuff like Pac & Pal or Pac-Attack. If you want Championship Edition DX you have to buy it seperately, and Ms. Pac-Man is DLC so it costs more (because there's licensing fees involved). It doesn't, however, have Pac-Man 2: The New Adventures, which is probably the best and weirdest Pac-Man game and here's a "speed run" of it that is just about as good as playing it yourself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3bPqPVzMoI&t=355s
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Jun 20, 2014 04:18
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Pac-Man Museum's a must buy, even if the interface is kind of awful. Even though it contains original Pac-Man CE and not DX, both are worth playing! Thanks for posting that Pac-Man 2 video, game's got to be seen to believed.
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Jun 20, 2014 04:20
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Why would you make a long op for a pac-man thread. Please help me understand.
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Jun 20, 2014 04:22
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Before anyone mentions the recent Pac-Man, here is a "Let's Play" by the owner of this website, Lowtax...the game is really awful. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UX8KVKA08sw
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Jun 20, 2014 04:22
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The OP could literally just be "Hey discuss some gay pacman game here" and serve the same purpose.
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Jun 20, 2014 04:23
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in fact why make a thread at all
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Jun 20, 2014 04:24
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We can just beam Pac-Man thoughts into each other's minds using the power of ironic shitposting, we have no need for such things as threads
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Jun 20, 2014 04:25
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Pac-Man World 2 is a great game, even though it's been largely forgotten.
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Jun 20, 2014 04:25
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Question to Championship Edition, I played it a year or two ago (if I recall) and thought it was pretty great, but there was a time limit. Starting to get urges to try it again with Pac-man in smash, was there a way to disable the time limit and just zone out?
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Jun 20, 2014 04:25
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SALT CURES HAM posted:We can just beam Pac-Man thoughts into each other's minds using the power of ironic shitposting, we have no need for such things as threads Oh okay so good posting is using lots of boldfaces and long posts over pacman.
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Jun 20, 2014 04:26
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Thanks for helping me catch up on pac man lore
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Jun 20, 2014 04:28
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mick foley forever posted:The OP could literally just be "Hey discuss some gay pacman game here" and serve the same purpose. I don't think he's gay at all but he does look really unhappy about his marriage in Pac-Man 2 so you may be right, let's talk more. ThisIsACoolGuy posted:Question to Championship Edition, I played it a year or two ago (if I recall) and thought it was pretty great, but there was a time limit. Starting to get urges to try it again with Pac-man in smash, was there a way to disable the time limit and just zone out?
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Jun 20, 2014 04:28
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Surlaw posted:I don't think he's gay at all but he does look really unhappy about his marriage in Pac-Man 2 so you may be right, let's talk more. Oh I was using gay in the "stupid and retarded" context not the good homosexual version. sorry
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Jun 20, 2014 04:29
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He eats trash so that's pretty accurate but he's still a pretty ok guy. What was your first time like? With Pac? Are you a Pac-Maniac too?
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Jun 20, 2014 04:33
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Surlaw posted:He eats trash so that's pretty accurate but he's still a pretty ok guy. What was your first time like? With Pac? Are you a Pac-Maniac too? my first time with gay sex was great. i hosed men's asses 
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Jun 20, 2014 04:35
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Jun 20, 2014 04:36
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IM HAVING A PAC ATTACK-ACK-ACK-ACK-ACK-ACK-ACK YOU OUGHTA KNOW BY NOW
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Jun 20, 2014 04:38
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mick foley forever posted:Oh okay so good posting is using lots of boldfaces and long posts over pacman. like i'm not going to lie this would have been better as an effortpost in the  thread but this is ok
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Jun 20, 2014 04:41
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SALT CURES HAM posted:like i'm not going to lie this would have been better as an effortpost in the i don't care.
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Jun 20, 2014 04:45
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Who else loved Share Ware? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67XjoiGlf_8 i had this game when i was 3. (I was totaly ownage BTW:)) it was on my dads first computer. 64 bit, i think it was called. (am i totaly wrong now?) it brings so manny good memorys..
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Jun 20, 2014 04:46
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gently caress the haters, this OP taught me about Proffesor PacMan.
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Jun 20, 2014 04:47
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Funkmaster General posted:gently caress the haters, this OP taught me about Proffesor PacMan. *professor
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Jun 20, 2014 04:48
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Funkmaster General posted:gently caress the haters, this OP taught me about Proffesor PacMan. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FK3QatR6xoM
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Jun 20, 2014 04:49
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gently caress yessssssss Pac Man thread! I am terrible at the original and Ms. Pac Man is definitely the best, but I have always loved the aesthetics and the ghosts and the ridiculous attempts to make some kind of story out of basically some dudes in a maze.  I'm surprised there's no mention of Pac Man World 1 through 3, or Ms. Pac Man World. I played Ms. Pac Man World on GameCube and it was an extremely fun puzzle/platformer that seemed like a natural direction to take the original gameplay until CE DX happened to me. Holy poo poo is that game just perfectly addictive. What are some legal ways to play Pac Man 2 on a more modern gaming system? I've basically got GameCube and forward. mick foley forever posted:Oh okay so good posting is using lots of boldfaces and long posts over pacman. Are you seriously spending time trolling a Pac Man thread. 
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Jun 20, 2014 04:49
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codenameFANGIO posted:Are you seriously spending time trolling a Pac Man thread. im not trolling. im asking questions. fail also you opened your post with "gently caress yessssssssssssss pac man thread" so you really can't own me
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Jun 20, 2014 04:52
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So how was Pac-Man World 3? I played 1 and 2 but never the third one.
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Jun 20, 2014 04:53
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FANGIO even though I'm a total Pac-Maniac I've never played the Pac-Man World games, so you should probably be the one to write the serious posts about them! Remember to use boldface. Pac-Man 2 has sadly never been rereleased, even though it would play pretty perfectly on any kind of touchscreen system. If you're not going to emulate it, you'll have to buy either a used SNES or Genesis copy, but both are pretty common and you can get them under $5 shipped on Amazon. mick foley forever posted:im not trolling. im asking questions. fail 
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Jun 20, 2014 04:54
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mick foley forever posted:im not trolling. im asking questions. fail I'm not posting in the Pac Man thread to own anybody, because that's an insane thing to want. 
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Jun 20, 2014 04:56
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CE DX is super fun, add me on Steam so we can rub our scores together Also, Pac-Man Museum is a joke even at five bucks. Why can't we go back to the PlayStation Namco Museum games with the cool "walk around and explore a literal museum" sections? Those were the poo poo.
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Jun 20, 2014 04:57
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mick foley forever posted:*professor Predictive text keyboard has failed me.
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Jun 20, 2014 04:57
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codenameFANGIO posted:I'm not posting in the Pac Man thread to own anybody, because that's an insane thing to want. troll
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Jun 20, 2014 04:57
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Scratch-O posted:Also, Pac-Man Museum is a joke even at five bucks. Why can't we go back to the PlayStation Namco Museum games with the cool "walk around and explore a literal museum" sections? Those were the poo poo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3n22GQMgcU
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Jun 20, 2014 05:01
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Surlaw posted:FANGIO even though I'm a total Pac-Maniac I've never played the Pac-Man World games, so you should probably be the one to write the serious posts about them! Remember to use boldface. I've only played Ms. Pac Man World. It was great though! That's the write up. Scratch-O posted:CE DX is super fun, add me on Steam so we can rub our scores together That sounds awesome as hell, I hope prices on Amazon aren't too bad. What are the Wii Namco Museums like, anyway? There are several and they all se to have certain exclusive Pac Man games and arrangements and I never know what the gently caress is in which collection and whether it's any good.
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Jun 20, 2014 05:09
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codenameFANGIO posted:What are the Wii Namco Museums like, anyway? There are several and they all se to have certain exclusive Pac Man games and arrangements and I never know what the gently caress is in which collection and whether it's any good. not to be rude but instead of asking the op these questions you could actually google them, using http://www.google.com.
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Jun 20, 2014 05:12
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In Real Life Pac-Man museum news, Funspot up in Laconia NH has some really great Pac-Man stuff.   The Pac-Man in the purple "Score with me" shirt just brings up more questions I guess. codenameFANGIO posted:What are the Wii Namco Museums like, anyway? There are several and they all se to have certain exclusive Pac Man games and arrangements and I never know what the gently caress is in which collection and whether it's any good. A True Jar Jar Fan fucked around with this message at 05:21 on Jun 20, 2014 |
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Jun 20, 2014 05:13
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mick foley forever posted:not to be rude but instead of asking the op these questions you could actually google them, using http://www.google.com. The games are similarly named and they have a mix of new games and "Arrangements", some of which have appeared previously and some of which are new. It is difficult to keep track! I appreciate that you just want to make a good thread about Pac Man though, so thank you for your suggestion. 
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Jun 20, 2014 05:15
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codenameFANGIO posted:The games are similarly named and they have a mix of new games and "Arrangements", some of which have appeared previously and some of which are new. It is difficult to keep track! I appreciate that you just want to make a good thread about Pac Man though, so thank you for your suggestion. oh. sorry about your dyslexia
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mick foley forever posted:oh. sorry about your dyslexia  ok man
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