Pac-Man Plus
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Pac-Man Plus is an arcade game released by Bally Midway in 1982, and it is the 4th title in the Pac-Man series of games. Like Ms. Pac-Man, this update to the original game was created without Namco's authorization.
Pac-Man Plus had the same basic goal of all of the early Pac-Man games. The goal was to eat all of the pills before he is caught by the ghosts. Just like the other early Pac-Man games, energizers (usually called power pills by fans of the games) could be eaten so that the ghosts would become vulnerable and turn blue for a short length of time.
Despite the game's cabinet's announcement of Pac-Man Plus being "Exciting! New!", Pac-Man Plus is basically the original with some minor tweaks. While eating the power pellets caused the ghosts to turn blue, they also became smaller and green flags appeared on their heads (this may have been done so the ghosts would be easier to see when they were blue). Secondly, eating the power pellets could cause "mystery" effects, such as only 3 of the 4 ghosts turning blue, the ghosts becoming invisible when turning blue, or the maze itself temporarily becoming invisible. Later in the game, the entire maze would be permanently invisible. A fourth change was that eating the game's "fruit" (which includes, among other things, what appears to be a can of Coca-Cola) also had the effect of eating an energizer, which, while turning the ghosts blue, would also turn them invisible, and the player would be awarded double the points that eating a normal energizer would.
Ports
Because there were so few differences between Pac-Man and Pac-Man Plus and because the game was released right before the Video game crash of 1983, Pac-Man Plus was never ported to home video game systems or computers.
External link
- Pac-Man Plus entry on the Killer List of Videogames