Pac-Man Plus

Maze Games 

Type of the game: [Coin-Op] Arcade Video Game
Pac-Man Plus © 1982 Bally Midway.

The ghosts are the same, if their edible forms are changed. The maze is familiar, if a bit off in color. The prizes in the center are a bit different. Be careful, however : Pac-Man may eat a power pill and find that Blinky, who is right in front of the energizer for him to immediately eat, is still red, and now Pac-Man is dead. Also, you might want to try eating the ghosts after eating the center prize. They'll return to their normal forms shortly after turning visible.

Main CPU : Z80 (@ 3.072 Mhz)
Sound Chips : Namco 3-channel WSG (@ 96 Khz)

Screen orientation : Vertical
Video resolution : 224 x 288 pixels
Screen refresh : 60.61 Hz
Palette colors : 16

Players : 2
Control : 4-way joystick
Buttons : 1

Pac-Man Plus was developed by Bally Midway without the approval of Namco. Released as an upgrade kit for the original "Pac-Man" where the action on screen has been 'upgraded' so that the old patterns and tried-and-true ways of playing no longer have any validity.

The programming is is a lot like "Pac-Man" except that the maze is outlined in green instead of blue. The prizes that appear in the middle of the maze are cans of Coke, cocktails, green beans, cakes, gift-wrapped boxes, etc. Whenever Pac-Man eats an energizer, the ghosts not only turn blue but they also get apple stems on their heads. On later levels, sometimes only three of the ghosts turn blue.

The game plays exactly like the original except that there are various events (apparently selected at random) that may or may not occur after Pac-Man eats one of the four power pellets. These events include but are not limited to : the maze's structure becoming temporarily invisible, the ghosts turning invisible while they are blue, or only three of the four ghosts turning blue. The prizes in the middle of the maze can also act as a power pellet. Another difference is that later in the game the maze's structure becomes permanently invisible.

Shannon Ryan holds the official record for this game with 3213900 points.

The scoring system is very similar to the original Pac-Man game.

Dots : 10 points
Energizers : 50 points
Ghosts after eating energizer : 200, 400, 800, 1600 points
Ghosts after center prize : 400, 800, 1600, 3200 points
Soda Can : 100 points
Vitmo : 300 points
Peas : 500 points
Apple : 700 points
Grapes : 1000 points
Galaxian : 2000 points
Bread : 3000 points
Pancakes : 5000 points

1. Pac-Man (1980, Arcade)
2. Ms. Pac-Man [Upright model] [No. 595] (1981, Arcade)
3. Super Pac-Man (1982, Arcade)
4. Pac-Man Plus (1982, Arcade)
5. Jr. Pac-Man [No. 0A29] (1983, Arcade)
6. Pac & Pal (1983, Arcade)
7. Pac-Land (1984, Arcade)
8. Pac-Mania (1987, Arcade)
9. Pac-Man 2 - The New Adventures (1994, SNES, Mega Drive)
10. Pac-In-Time (1994, SNES, PC CD-ROM)
11. Pac-Man Arrangement (1996) : part of "Namco Classics Collection Vol.2"
12. Pac-Man World (1999, Sony PlayStation; 2004, GBA)
13. Pac-Man - Adventures in Time (2000, PC CD-ROM)
14. Ms. Pac-Man Maze Madness (2000, PlayStation)
15. Ms. Pac-Man - Quest for the Golden Maze (2001, PC CD-ROM)
16. Pac-Man All-Stars (2002, PC CD-ROM)
17. Pac-Man Fever (2002, PC CD-ROM)
18. Pac-Man World 2 (2002, PS2, GameCube, XBOX)
19. Pac-Man vs. (2003, GameCube)
20. Pac-Man Pinball Advance (2005, GBA)
21. Pac-Man World 3 (2005, PSP, PS2, GameCube, XBOX, PC CD-ROM, DS)
22. Pac'n Roll (2005, DS)
23. Pac-Pix (2005, DS)
24. Pac-Man World Rally (2006, GameCube, PS2, PSP, PC CD-ROM)
25. Pac-Man Championship Edition (2007, XBLA)
26. Pac-Man Championship Edition DX (2010, XBLA, PSN)
27. Pac-Man Party (2010, Wii)
28. Pac-Man Battle Royale (2011, Arcade)
29. Pac-Man Tilt (2011, 3DS) : part of "Pac-Man & Galaga Dimensions"

Others:

Super Pac-Man TV game (2006 - Jakks Pacific)
Arcade Gold featuring Pac-Man (2007 - Jakks Pacific)
Retro Arcade featuring Pac-Man (2008 - Jakks Pacific)
Pac-Man Connect and Play (2012 - Bandai)

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