Pac-Mania (1987)

To say that Pac-Man is the whole icon of the video games is an obviousness, nevertheless, to try to relaunch the exemption eight years after his initial appearance needed a deep renewal of the title, and this is what was tried by Pac-Mania. The proper Namco would be the manager of his development, although the distribution in the United States and Europe would be carried out by Atari Games. Pac-Mania is only a reinterpretation of the pseudothree-dimensional outstanding figure (rather, with isometric perspective), supporting the essential props of his jugabilidad. The title would appear originally for recreational machines although they would not take in versions appear for Friend, Atari ST, Commodore 64, Gentle SEGA Drive, Nintendo Entertainment System, SEGA Master's degree System, Sharp X68000, ZX Spectrum, MSX and Acorn Archimedes.

The principal target is the same, the personage protagonist will have to cover the labyrinthine stages eating up all the balls of every level. In ours against tendremos a series of bogeys that will try to reach us so that we could not obtain ours targets, although we will be able to eat them during a short period of time on having eaten a special ball.

Nevertheless, Pac-Mania contains a series of differences with regard to the original. Most emphasized from all it is his isometric perspective, which does not remain in a simple change of sight, since it allows the implementation of the jump of our personage, who will be able to be used to avoid to the bogeys. To four original bogeys (Blinky, Pinky, Inky and Clyde), they join one purple (Sue), another green (Funky) and one gray (Spunky), the most dangerous since it will jump simultaneously that Pac-Man, what it will make impossible to jump it.

At visual level more progress exists apart from the change of perspective. We are at four different levels (Block Town, Pac-Man Park, Sandbox Land and Jungle Steps), with different motives in the stages, more a fifth secret level, Coin Town, which is unblocked if we finish Block Town without using any special ball.

Of this version in particular there does not exist a clear consequence (in fact, later only we find the oddness of Pac-Man VR in 1996), but if that inspired changes for the multiple clones of the saga, being a good ejempo Mad Mix 2 of Mole Soft.

In this video you can see as it is the game: