Pac-Man Plus

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title = Pac-Man Plus


developer = Bally Midway
publisher = Bally Midway
designer =
release = 1982
genre = Retro/Maze
modes = Up to 2 players, alternating turns
cabinet = Standard
arcade system = Namco Pac-Man
cpu = z80|1|3.072
sound = 1x Namco WSG (3-channel mono) @ 3.072 MHz
display = Raster, vertical
input = 4-way Joystick
platforms = Arcade

"Pac-Man Plus" is an arcade game released by Bally Midway in 1982, and it is the 4th title in the "Pac-Man" series of games. Like "Ms. Pac-Man", this update to the original game was created without Namco's authorization.

"Pac-Man Plus" had the same basic goal of all of the early "Pac-Man" games: to eat all of the pac-dots and power pellets before Pac-Man is caught by the monsters. Just like the other early "Pac-Man" games, power pellets could be eaten so that the ghosts would become vulnerable and turn blue for a short length of time. Despite advertising stating that "Pac-Man Plus" was "Exciting!" and "New!"Fact|date=November 2007 this game is actually just a modifier chip for the original "Pac-Man", and the gameplay is essentially identical to it, with only minor gameplay tweaks and altered graphics (the maze is light green, compared to the original blue, and the fruits have been replaced by alternative objects, including a can of Coca-Cola). The most significant changes in the gameplay is that eating a bonus fruit causes the ghosts to become vulnerable and invisible, doubling the score for eating them; and that eating power pellets would often have unpredictable effects (such as turning only three ghosts blue or turning the maze invisible).

Ports

Because there were so few differences between "Pac-Man" and "Pac-Man Plus" and because the game was released right before the video game crash of 1983, "Pac-Man Plus" was never ported to home video game systems or computers. However, there have been efforts by some homebrew game developers to port "Pac-Man Plus" to classic game consoles such as the Atari 2600, [ [http://www.atariage.com/hack_page.html?SystemID=2600&SoftwareHackID=151 Atari 2600 Hacks] from AtariAge] and more recently the Atari 5200 [ [http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=67617 5200: Pac-Man Plus Version .1] from AtariAge] and the Atari 7800. [ [http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=70576 7800: Pac-Man Plus] from AtariAge] In addition, Jakks Pacific has released a new Pac-Man TV Games collection that featured "Pac-Man", "Pac-Man Plus", "Super Pac-Man", and "Pac & Pal". [ [http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=106472&p=irol-newsArticle&t=Regular&id=800679 JAKKS Pacific, Inc.] press release]

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