Pac-Man 2600
Written by Dena Wednesday, 11 November 2009 19:07
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11.11.2009 - 20:24 | 8-Bit-Awesome
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11.11.2009 - 20:53 | ParadoxBomb
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11.11.2009 - 21:04 | Cyborcat
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11.11.2009 - 21:22 | natboof
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11.11.2009 - 21:42 | Coldguy
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11.11.2009 - 21:55 | Cyborcat
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11.11.2009 - 22:17 | Phelous
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11.11.2009 - 22:22 | Cyborcat
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11.12.2009 - 09:54 | Phelous
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11.11.2009 - 22:00 | Mr.Stillman
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11.11.2009 - 22:31 | Sonicrose

I remember playing hours of Pac-Man and Pac-Man jr. Having never really gone to arcades and being low income, we got in on Atari probably toward the end of it's life when it was affordable to us. But it was great and it did what it was supposed to. It entertained us. Pac-man was a great game in any format. This may have been its' worst incarnation but even then... what can I say? It was what it was.
There was a game on it just called "Skiing" and that was a lame game.
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11.11.2009 - 22:37 | SpotTheShingo
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11.11.2009 - 22:47 | jimmfreak
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11.11.2009 - 23:41 | Jedah Doma
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11.12.2009 - 06:45 | Cyborcat
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Cyborcat wrote:This really isn't a review--the description was written by Lee and I didn't catch that he used the word "review".
Really, I don't consider ANY of my videos to be reviews--they're pretty much all retrospectives to some degree.Ah gottcha.
So the real question is, what are your thoughts on Pac Man Championship Edition?
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11.11.2009 - 23:15 | Deimos1984rd
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11.11.2009 - 23:35 | randomduded
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11.12.2009 - 01:54 | WristWatchMafia

@Randomduded
I think the line might be from Sealab 2021. Captain Murphy thinks a dying child named Griff has the plague, and at one point randomly blurts out
"I'll bet your lymph nodes are as big as cats!"
Not unlike the Spoony one's moniker comes from an obscure Final Fantasy game (well, as obscure as they can be)"He has escaped, through the hole!"
"Yes, through the ho- MY BANANA!!!"
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11.12.2009 - 06:40 | Cyborcat
Quote:I think the line might be from Sealab 2021. Captain Murphy thinks a dying child
named Griff has the plague, and at one point randomly blurts out
"I'll bet your lymph nodes are as big as cats!"
Congrats, you're the first person to figure that out
It was also partly inspired by a magazine article on video games where someone described Adventure (also Atari 2600) as having "pixels as big as dimes".
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11.12.2009 - 18:33 | WristWatchMafia
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11.12.2009 - 19:44 | Cyborcat
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11.12.2009 - 03:19 | mwong04
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11.12.2009 - 04:27 | shodan

Ahh, this game. It was one of my first, as well. (Well, not /mine/, but my parents'). Sure, it's a horrible port of Pac-Man, but back then, *I* certainly didn't care. It was still fun.. back then.
I also actually /liked/ ET. Yes, it also has its problems, as every single person on the internet is more than eager to point out, but to a little kid, the flaws don't matter. :)It's nice to see a somewhat /positive/ review of this game, for /once/. You're not nitpicking the absurd graphics, the replacement of the fruits with a generic square (a "vitamin", I seem to remember it being called), the constantly flickering ghosts, and the ridiculous sound (which even to this day is still occasionally used in TV shows as "videogame noises".)
No, this review focused on your impressions back /then/, and helped me remember my own happy memories of playing this game and others like it. So thanks for that. :)
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11.12.2009 - 04:33 | baba44713
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11.12.2009 - 06:42 | Cyborcat
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11.12.2009 - 08:44 | Cferra

But...But it's PAC-MAN!
I think this was one of the first games I've ever played too, Dena. Ahh the Atari...I used to play this and Pitfall. I tried playing this "3D Pac Man" on the Genesis. Just wasn't the same either.
I think it was called Pac-mania or something. Can someone correct me if I am wrong. There's just been so many Pac games.
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11.12.2009 - 08:50 | Mobius
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11.12.2009 - 09:23 | Fishtank
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11.12.2009 - 10:20 | Cyborcat
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11.12.2009 - 10:29 | randomduded
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11.12.2009 - 12:27 | Thoadthetoad
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11.12.2009 - 12:44 | angel85

I played pacman for the atari 2600 when I was 4, it's one of my earliest memories and the only game I could play back then and last more than a minute. I actually know the sound effects from that version of the game more than the arcade one, in fact when I played the genesis port of the arcade version years later my mind was blown.
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11.12.2009 - 20:30 | J_Conrady
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11.13.2009 - 07:39 | mattandryan
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11.14.2009 - 12:57 | DoomGuy
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04.02.2010 - 13:54 | Dreadwing
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07.19.2010 - 09:42 | iannerd97
Awesome as always Dena :lol: