I first played Pac-Man on the Atari 2600. It was my first Pac-Man experience, and it was a good one. I couldnt wait to turn on my used Atari 2600 and put in Pac-Man and finally experience what gamers everywhere called Pacmania! The game was lots of fun, and addicting, and it never lost its greatness. I played it for hours. But still..it was not a 10.0. I couldnt really understand why the game just didnt give me the incentive to leap up and down with joy. Finally, about 2 months later, I heard that the 2600 port was a miserable failure. I couldnt believe it. I looked it up, and I found it relating to the 1983 video game crash, and being one of the worst let downs in video game history. I was astonished. I took a look at screenshots from the other consoles, and my blood boiled. I had no other console that would play the game however. (Maybe a Namcon mueseum game, but I wanted an original). So, I played flash Pac-Man on PC.....WOW...NOW THAT WAS PACMANIA! I felt the excitment build...what an awesome game! It was truly amazing...Now I saw....I would give the PC flash game a 95% because of some lag, and I came really close to giving this game a 7.5 just because of the comparison to the other ports, but this is a review of a game, not a comparison, so this game deserves a 8.0. .5 off for slow gameplay, .5 off for miserable graphics, and 1.0 off for the worst sound in Pac-Man ever! But in my heart, it is much lower.....
I remember Christmas 1981 so well. It was a season of anticipation for one of the few gifts I wanted that year -- a copy of the Atari 2600 port of "Pac-Man". That game had literally dominated the arcades since ... Read Full Review
The hype of Pac-Man making the jump to the 2600 is not unlike the rumble created from any upcoming Zelda game now. The roar was furious. Stores were preselling the game [the first time ever in history, if memory serves... Read Full Review
