Pac-Man for XBOX Live Arcade is a good arcade port of the original with achievements and a continue option like Galaga.

User Rating: 7 | Pac-Man X360
The XBOX Live Arcade has been the new home for the arcade classics for consoles and it has been a success with games like Street Fighter II' Hyper Fighting, Geometry Wars, and Uno. The final release of XBOX Live Arcade Wednesdays is the game that started the arcade boom in the early 1980s, which is Namco Bandai's Pac-Man. The arcade Pac-Man games has already have a history being on Microsoft's consoles with Ms. Pac-Man on the original XBLA from the get go, Pac-Man on Ridge Racer 6 for the 360, and now this version on its own for XBLA with its own achievements and leaderboards. This game costs 400 Microsoft points, which translates to five bucks like all the other arcade classics on XBOX 360. Your purchase will depend on whether or not you like playing Pac-Man back in the day or wanting more achievement points, which is the standard 200 like all the other XBLA games.

For those who have been living under a rock or even playing today's games not appreciating the old school, Pac-Man was a simple concept of eating little dots in this maze as four different colored ghosts chase you around trying to hit you resulting in losing a life. As you eat more dots, there will be a certain fruit or object you can eat for more points and most of the achievements are tied into eating those bonus objects as you progress through the game. Just like Galaga, there is a continue option to let you continue from the highest level you died, which makes the level achievements easier to get. Speaking of achievements, the harder ones are using a pellet to eat all four ghosts once and doing the same thing with all four pellets per level. Other than that, you can get easy points in this game like Galaga but there will be one or two of them that will take some time and lots of luck.

The graphics and sound of this port is arcade perfect unlike other XBLA classics like Street Fighter II' Hyper Fighting. The background for this game is great and not bland, which is similar to Galaga's setup of the vertical default screen and different Pac-Man poses surrounds it. The controls are fine using the left stick or d-pad to move Pac-Man around, but you might get frustrated at times if you were frustrated with the arcade stick on the original cabinet. Other than that, fans of the original will buy this game no matter what the price is and whether or not it has any inaccurate parts in this classic. Pac-Man is a good arcade port that will satisfy old-school fans and even people who want more achievement points.