Namco Pac-Man

Namco Pac-Man is 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. In 1984, Namco released Pac-Land and ended its partnership with Bally Midway. In 1985, Namco developed and released Jump Shot (a basketball simulation) and Shoot the Bull (a darts game) on this board.

This article is about Namco's 8-bit Pac-Man arcade hardware. For the specific arcade game, see 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 game created by Midway Games; the rights were later turned over to Namco
  • Pac-Man Plus (1982) - unauthorized game created by Bally Midway; the rights were later turned over to Namco
  • Jr. Pac-Man (1983) - unauthorized game 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. Nick Montfort & Ian Bogost (2009), Racing the beam: the Atari Video computer system, MIT Press, p. 67, ISBN 978-0-262-01257-7, 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. https://web.archive.org/web/20130104063950/http://mamedev.org/source/src/mame/drivers/rallyx.c.html
  6. Nick Montfort & Ian Bogost (2009), Racing the beam: the Atari Video computer system, MIT Press, p. 68, ISBN 978-0-262-01257-7, retrieved 2011-05-07
  7. http://www.lomont.org/Software/Games/PacMan/PacmanEmulation.pdf
  8. https://github.com/mamedev/mame/tree/master/src/mame/drivers/pacman.c
  9. https://web.archive.org/web/20130104201358/http://mamedev.org/source/src/mame/video/pacman.c.html
  10. http://aarongiles.com/mamemem/part3.html
  11. Montfort, Nick; Bogost, Ian (2009-01-09). Racing the Beam: The Atari Video Computer System. ISBN 9780262261524.
  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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