Topic: New Pac-Man on Virtual Console..

[Kairon]

I almost bought Pac-Man on the VC, but resisted because I knew it wasn't the same as the Tengen version I grew up with!

[Ceric]

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Originally posted by: Uncle Bob
Well, first let me say... QUAD POST! whoo!

Anywhoo, got to play the old GameBoy version at work today with a friend. It's pretty darn cool. We played 3-4 matches and I won everyone one.  At one point, I was just crusin' around my maze with no ghosts while he had eight on his screen and had already eaten all of his power pellets. HA!  The concept is *great*, but it needs some fine tuning to make it perfect (example, GBC screen is too small and forces you to scroll as you can only see part of the map at a time. Also, the case I mentioned above sucks for the other player.) But seriously, I'd love to see this idea reinvisioned for a multi-player Pac-Man.

To be fair though, Pac-Man vs. Is one of my most favorite multi-player games ever... So it's a given that I'd like something like this...

Technically no.

I need to get Pac-Man Vs.  Then I would have caught them all.  Even though I never had anyone to play with really.

[that Baby guy]

Wait, the GC Pac-man is not the Tengen version?  What version is it?!  How will I download RBI Baseball!?

[vudu]

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Originally posted by: Uncle Bob
Anywhoo, got to play the old GameBoy version at work today with a friend. It's pretty darn cool. We played 3-4 matches and I won everyone one.  At one point, I was just crusin' around my maze with no ghosts while he had eight on his screen and had already eaten all of his power pellets. HA!

So how does a match end?  Does he have to die?  Is there any way for you to win (other than by default because the other player loses)?

[UncleBob]

The "game" ends when one player is caught by the Ghosts three times (although you can earn extra lives by points).  On the Game Over screen, it shows both player's scores and declares one player the winner.  Unfortunatly, I'm not certian how this is decided since each match we played, my friend would have the lower score and would be killed first.

Anywhoo, in his particular situation, if he could manage to complete the maze (by eating all the dots, of course), he would be rewarded with a new maze (with new Power Pellets to send Ghosts back to me).  However, with 8 Ghosts and no Power Pellets in his current maze, it'd be quite the challage to finish...