Namco Pac-Man

The Namco Pac-Man was an 8-bit arcade game system board that was first used by Namco in 1980; the second and third games to run on it, Rally-X and New Rally-X, were modified to support a larger color palette and scrolling. Three unauthorized Pac-Man sequels were later developed by Bally Midway, Namco's old US distributor, on this board between 1981 and 1983 - and after Namco ended its partnership with Bally Midway after the release of Pac-Land in 1984, it developed Jump Shot (a basketball simulation) and Shoot the Bull (a darts game) on it, in the following year.

Namco Pac-Man specifications

List of Namco Pac-Man arcade games

  • Pac-Man (1980) - previously the highest-grossing game of all time[12]
  • Rally-X (1980) - the first game to feature a bonus round
  • New Rally-X (1981)
  • Ms. Pac-Man (1981) - unauthorized title created by Midway Games; the rights were later turned over to Namco
  • Pac-Man Plus (1982) - unauthorized title created by Bally Midway; the rights were later turned over to Namco
  • Jr. Pac-Man (1983) - unauthorized title created by Bally Midway; the rights to this title are in limbo
  • New Puck-X (1980) - hack of Pac-Man
  • Newpuc2 (1980) - hack of Pac-Man
  • Caterpillar Pac-Man (Phi, 1981) - hack of Pac-Man
  • Crush Roller (also known as Make Trax) (Kural Samno Electric, 1981)
  • Hangly-Man (1981) - hack of Pac-Man
  • Magic Brush (1981) - bootleg of Crush Roller
  • Ms. Pac-Attack (1981) - hack of Ms. Pac-Man
  • Ms. Pac-Man Plus (1981) - hack of Ms. Pac-Man
  • Naughty Mouse (Amenip Nova Games Ltd., 1981)
  • Pac-Gal (1981) - hack of Ms. Pac-Man
  • Paint Roller (1981) - bootleg of Crush Roller
  • Piranha (GL, 1981) - hack of Pac-Man
  • Abscam (GL, 1982) - hack of Pac-Man
  • Ali Baba and 40 Thieves (Sega, 1982)
  • Pengo (Sega, 1982)
  • Dream Shopper (Sanritsu, 1982)
  • Eyes (Digitrex Techstar, 1982)
  • Joyman (1982) - hack of Pac-Man
  • Ponpoko (Sigma Enterprises Inc., 1982)
  • Atlantic City Action (Epos Corporation, 1983)
  • Boardwalk Casino (Epos Corporation, 1983)
  • Eggor (Telko, 1983)
  • Gorkans (Techstar, 1983)
  • Mr. TNT (Telko, 1983)
  • The Glob (Epos Corporation, 1983)
  • Van-Van Car (Sanritsu, 1983)
  • Beastie Feastie (Epos Corporation, 1984)
  • Driving Force (Shinkai Inc., 1984) - another version also exists on Namco Galaxian hardware
  • Eight Ball Action (Seatongrove Ltd., 1985)
  • Jump Shot (Bally Midway, 1985)
  • Lizard Wizard (Techstar, 1985)
  • Porky (Shinkai Inc., 1985)
  • Shoot the Bull (Bally Midway, 1985)
  • Big Bucks (Dynasoft Inc., 1986)
  • Ms. Pac-Man Champion Edition (also known as Super Zola Pac-Gal) (1995) - hack of Ms. Pac-Man

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Nick Montfort & Ian Bogost (2009), Racing the beam: the Atari Video computer system, MIT Press, p. 67, ISBN 0-262-01257-X, retrieved 2011-05-07
  2. ↑ http://www.drolez.com/retro/
  3. ↑ http://system16.com/hardware.php?id=514
  4. ↑ https://github.com/mamedev/mame/tree/master/src/emu/sound/namco.c
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 https://web.archive.org/web/20130104063950/http://mamedev.org/source/src/mame/drivers/rallyx.c.html
  6. 1 2 Nick Montfort & Ian Bogost (2009), Racing the beam: the Atari Video computer system, MIT Press, p. 68, ISBN 0-262-01257-X, retrieved 2011-05-07
  7. 1 2 http://www.lomont.org/Software/Games/PacMan/PacmanEmulation.pdf
  8. 1 2 3 https://github.com/mamedev/mame/tree/master/src/mame/drivers/pacman.c
  9. 1 2 https://web.archive.org/web/20130104201358/http://mamedev.org/source/src/mame/video/pacman.c.html
  10. ↑ http://aarongiles.com/mamemem/part3.html
  11. ↑ https://books.google.com/books?id=DqePfdz_x6gC&pg=PA70
  12. ↑ Steve L. Kent (2001), The ultimate history of video games: from Pong to Pokémon and beyond: the story behind the craze that touched our lives and changed the world, Prima, p. 143, ISBN 0-7615-3643-4, retrieved 2011-05-01, Despite the success of his game, Iwatani never received much attention. Rumors emerged that the unknown creator of Pac-Man had left the industry when he received only a $3500 bonus for creating the highest-grossing video game of all time.
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