PLAY PAC MAN ATARI 2600 ONLINE PC
In today’s dollars a decent PC cost around six to seven thousand dollars, far beyond the budget of most households no matter how much manure you shoveled around about how it would help you with your schoolwork. Thanks dad.** Another option was to bite the bullet and buy a PC, but good luck with that. Plus, a new system cost a lot of money and back then it was difficult explaining to parents why it was needed when, from their clueless point of view, you already had a perfectly good video game toy.
You could buy a better home console system but there was no guarantee the system would be around the next year while the 2600 was sure thing. In those days if you wanted better graphics and game play you had limited options. Everyone-and I do mean everyone save the most clueless of parents-knew that a 2600 version of any arcade game was going to be an inferior version, often vastly inferior. Critics said the graphics sucked and it wasn’t as good as the arcade version, but come on. the Extra-Terrestrial game), was responsible for the video game crash of ’83 and eventually the destruction Atari itself, yet Pac-Man sold more cartridges than any other 2600 title.* Everyone had it and everyone played it.
It, so the story goes (along with the E.T. I don’t know why Pac-Man gets such a bad rap. Survive a few rounds of gameplay, and be treated to humorous intermissions between Pac-Man and the ghosts.ĭescription courtesy of MobyGames via a CC license This only lasts for a limited amount of time, as the ghost's eyes float back to their center box, and regenerate to chase after Pac-Man again. During this time, the ghosts turn blue, and Pac-Man can eat them for bonus points. Pac-Man can turn the tables on his pursuers by eating of the four Energizers located within the maze. One touch from any of these ghosts means a loss of life for Pac-Man. Pac-Man's goal is continually challenged by four ghosts: The shy blue ghost Bashful (Inky), the trailing red ghost Shadow (Blinky), the fast pink ghost Speedy (Pinky), and the forgetful orange ghost Pokey (Clyde). One of the most popular and influential games of the 1980's, Pac-Man stars a little, yellow dot-muncher who works his way around to clear a maze of the various dots and fruit which inhabit the board.
PLAY PAC MAN ATARI 2600 ONLINE MANUAL
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