Pac-Land
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Pac-Land is an entry in the Pac-Man series of arcade video games, released into arcades by Namco, and its American distributor Bally Midway, in 1984. The game was based primarily around the "Pac-Man" television series produced by Hanna-Barbera. Its primary objective is to race through various landscapes (a town, a forest, etc.), avoiding Pac-Man's familiar adversaries, the ghosts, to return a lost fairy to her home.
Breaking away from the typical maze structure of past Pac-Man titles, Pac-Land is a side-scrolling platform game. The game is considered one of the first of its kind. Released a year before Super Mario Bros., it set new standards for the genre.
Pac-Land was released to several home consoles and computers, including the Commodore 64, the Commodore Amiga, the Atari ST, the PC Engine, and the Nintendo Family Computer. Pac-Land remained a fixture in many video arcades through the mid-1990s, and was republished in 1997 as part of Namco Museum Volume 4 for the Sony PlayStation.
A hidden item (sometimes accidentally dropped by the ghosts) is a Flagship from Galaxian. The Galaxian Flagship is a long running cameo that appears in the Namco made Pac-Man games.
External links
- Defunct Games: [Pac-Land Review] (Atari Lynx)
- [Pac-Land] at MobyGames
- [KLOV entry for Pac-Land]
- [Arcade History Database entry]
| Arcade titles | Pac-Man – Ms. Pac-Man>Ms. – Plus – Super – Baby – Pac & Pal – Jr. – Professor – Pac-Land – Pac-Mania |
| Console & Handheld titles | Pac-Attack – – World – Maze Madness – Collection – World 2 – Fever – Vs. – Pac-Pix – Pac 'n Roll – World 3 - World Rally |
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