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Genre
Pac-Man Arrangement is an arcade game that follows the Pac-man format, it treats to guide the character through a maze to eat all the points located throughout the maze and avoiding the ghosts so as not to die. In this game, there are 5 ghosts, unlike others Pac-Man. In adittion to de points, there are differents power ups throughout the maze that allow ghosts to eat. Above all, this genre requires strategy to avoid the ghosts and know when to catch power ups.
The origin of the genre was Pac-man, an arcade game developed by Namco and released on May 22, 1980.
Similar games
Pac-Man is an arcade game produced by Namco in 1980. The player controls the character who is a round yellow character with a triangle-shaped piece missing, simulating the character's mouth. The player must go through the map, which it’s a maze, and collect all the points (pac-dots) to complete the level. Apart from the pac-dots, fruits appear on the map that allow you to increase the final score, but they aren’t necessary to complete the level. In this maze there are four ghosts that chase the character and each one has different stats. The player can collect some power-ups located throughout the maze and for a limited time he can eat the ghosts that reappear in the middle of the map after a while.
This was the first game in the Pac-Man saga.
Technical profile
The arcade machine for which the game was launched used the Namco ND-1 board.
Main processor: MC68000 12MHz
Sub-processor: MACH210-15
Sound processor: C352 Custom IC
GFX: YAMAHA YGV608-F
Video out: LM1203N
Board composition: Single Board-Surface mounted roms
History of the game
Pac-Man arrangement was released in 1996 by Namco as part of the Namco Classic Collection Vol. 2. It is a collection of seven popular Namco arcade games. Namco was founded in 1955 by Masaya Nakamura, the current president, in Tokyo. It started as a coin-operated game operator. Later, in 1959, he partnered with Walt Disney, who provided the company with resources to expand. The company entered the video game industry in 1974 after acquiring the Japanese division of Atari, distributing games as a breakout for Japan. The first Pac-Man saga game was released in 1980, and was one of the company's first major hits.
Pac-Man was created by video game designer Toru Iwatani. Iwatani was inspired by a pizza that was missing a piece to create the famous protagonist of the saga. Its name comes from the onomatopoeia paku (パ ク) which represents the sound produced when the mouth is opened and closed. It was originally marketed in Japan under the name Puck-Man, but the American distributor Midway changed it to Pac-Man for the USA market, as puck looks like fuck.
For this game many more games have been created for this saga to more than 50 games that make it up today.