The simplicity of both the character design and overall Pac-man concept has seen decades of attempts at innovation to expand and modernise the game’s concept. Mr Iwatani was quoted as saying, “The discussion didn’t take very long. He told the newspaper that ensuring the relative simplicity of the character was a huge part of its appeal, leading designers to ultimately discard giving the creature eyes or a nose – at least initially. This was a big shift for the games industry in the late 1970s where the player typically controlled impersonal cuboid tanks and weapons of destruction.Ī 2015 interview with Mr Iwatani in the Financial Times suggested that the distinctive and iconic bright yellow design of Pac-Man – a chomping mouth based on a partially eaten pizza – paved the way for more personal, idiosyncratic games characters in the decades to come that could appeal to a wider group of gamers. These more esoteric readings of the character were perhaps only possible as a result of original designer Toru Iwatani’s revolutionary idea to make the main character of Pac-Man into a vaguely humanoid figure – a kind of sentient face if you will. The hunter suddenly becomes the hunted in this state, and the player has a chance to either hunt down ghosts to take them of out the game temporarily, or let them run away as Pac-Man continues to try and clear the maze. This indicates they are suddenly vulnerable to being consumed by Pac-Man, if he can catch up with them of course. In a classic gameplay mechanic, once a player consumes a pac-pellet, ghosts are temporarily turned blue for a brief period of time. However, the player would not spend the entire game as a victim and could at any point collect one of four ‘pac-pellets’ hidden within the corners of each maze.
This is a game based on the concept of navigating a maze of ghosts by avoiding and outmanoeuvring your spectral predators to pick-up every ‘pac-dot’ littered around the level.
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Over decades of hardware and software development, there have been a number of different approaches to try to tinker and overhaul the simple mechanics of Namco’s foremost ‘maze chase video game’.
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The Pac-Man series of games that revolutionised arcades when launched over four decades ago is no stranger to experimentation. Pac-Man 99, released on Nintendo Switch in 2021, developed by Arika
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