Yeah, that original port of Pac-Man was quite horrible. I remember seeing it at a local K-Mart and the clerk talked my mom out of buying it, talked her into getting Asteroids for me instead - Looking back, I am so glad too.
The eating noise is terrible. Nothing like the arcade "waka". The first maze blows, too, but the red maze layout is better (but i would keep it blue). I like the quality of the ghosts and the larger power dots. I would have the dashes be white and the power dots red or yellow, and the score at the top of the screen instead of the bottom. I like the pacman's mouth movement and ghostly eyes animation. The fruit looks good. The ending animation looks good, but I would have it at the beginning. In any case, that's some good programming
It is pretty much a given at this point that Pac-Man is simply not going to be done well on the Atari 2600. Ms Pac-Man and Jr Pac-Man prove it can be done better which makes it more annoying that no one gets the original right.
This looks like a mod of the Ms Pac-Man code than written from scratch.
That is definitely a possibility with homebrew independent releases like this. We are not able to verify either way at this time though.
That sound at the beginning is hideous!
Beautifully done. too bad wasn't around back in early 90's.
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Eh. Not as good as Ms Pac Man still
The reason this version of the hack is weird is because of the maze and there’s no ghost sound and Pac-Man has eyes
I like Pac-Man 2 the maze look awsome❤
They certainly did their homework here, so awesome to see independent homebrew like this being created.
"It is offensive."
- Seven of Nine
Oh they made a release of Pac-Man on the Atari 2600 better than it was dedicated over the year when after it was very bad.
Yeah, that original port of Pac-Man was quite horrible. I remember seeing it at a local K-Mart and the clerk talked my mom out of buying it, talked her into getting Asteroids for me instead - Looking back, I am so glad too.
@@RetroGamingMag i will dedicate a video game too
There are way too many long stretches where you can get trapped.
Very true. I am not a fan of this version
Okay, where's the side door? In a Pacman game , there's supposed to be a side door.
"This is a hack of the original Pac-Man for the Atari 2600"
This is actually a hack of Ms. Pac-Man for the 2600. Close, but wrong.
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The ghost moves are strange
Scary sounds. 😆
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The eating noise is terrible. Nothing like the arcade "waka". The first maze blows, too, but the red maze layout is better (but i would keep it blue). I like the quality of the ghosts and the larger power dots. I would have the dashes be white and the power dots red or yellow, and the score at the top of the screen instead of the bottom. I like the pacman's mouth movement and ghostly eyes animation. The fruit looks good. The ending animation looks good, but I would have it at the beginning. In any case, that's some good programming
Anton Nym the eating sound your hearing is from the original Atari 2600 Pac-Man
@@elegies4 Thanks. You're right. I should have also said that this is a big improvement over the original 2600.
@@antonnym214 Nah, I prefer the original, yes the Atari one.
It's "paku" not "waka". Paku-man
This is a hack of Ms. Pac-Man.
Thanks for the clarification on this
Wow, it manages to be even worse than Tod Frye's Pac-Man, I'm genuinely impressed 😅
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Only thing weird maze design.
It certainly is different than standard mazes for this franchise.
How did you change the maze?
allrighter 04 it’s Atari Version
That noise would keep me from buying this..
wow
Better than the godawful Atari 2600 game!!!!!
Right?!? I cannot believe Atari moved forward with that port like it was. Such a high profile port and they rushed it.
Its as annoying as the first
It is pretty much a given at this point that Pac-Man is simply not going to be done well on the Atari 2600. Ms Pac-Man and Jr Pac-Man prove it can be done better which makes it more annoying that no one gets the original right.
RetroGaming it has though...
@@RetroGamingMag It has been done better on the 2600 - and it was released 5 years ago.
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Still CRAP!