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The ghosts were created by Toru Iwatani, who was the head designer for the original Pac-Man arcade game. The idea for the ghosts was made from Iwatani's desire to create a video game that could attract women and younger players, particularly couples, at a time where most video games were "war"-type games or Space Invaders clones.
The "Pac is Back" theme song features sound effects and melodies from the original arcade game, and other pieces of music from older Pac-Man games are remixed and used in the show. Some action sequences feature a remix of "Pac-Man's Park" from Pac-Mania (Which itself is based on the cutscene theme from the original Pac-Man arcade game).
Pac-Man Arrangement is split up into six worlds, each having its own different theme, including a toy box world, a water land, a world themed off the original Pac-Man game, a grass land, a pyramid, and a mechanical base. The final round takes the form of a boss fight, where Pac-Man must defeat the Ghosts' Mech by eating all the Pac-Dots on the ...
"Pac-Man Fever" is a 1981 novelty song by Buckner & Garcia. Capitalizing on the video game craze of the early 1980s, the song, referencing the arcade game Pac-Man , peaked at number 9 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States in March 1982.
The handle is broken off the repository so Betrayus sends the Creepies to find another way to open it. Pac and his friends find the repository but loses his berries and is caught by Betrayus. Inky, Blinky, Pinky and Clyde turn back into Ghosts and help Pac-Man. He eats all the ghosts and gets the repository.
A new feature to this game allows Pac-Man to jump over the ghosts to evade capture. It is the ninth title in the Pac-Man video game series and was the last one developed for arcades up until the release of Pac-Man Arrangement in 1996. Development was directed by Pac-Man creator Toru Iwatani. It was licensed to Atari Games for release in North ...
[4] In each stage, Pac-Man will encounter the four ghosts from the original game — Blinky, Pinky, Inky and Clyde — alongside a purple ghost named Sue, originally a replacement for Clyde in Ms. Pac-Man. [4] Eating large flashing Power Pellets will cause the ghosts to turn blue for a short time, allowing Pac-Man to eat them for bonus points. [4]
Pac-Man was awarded "Best Commercial Arcade Game" at the 1982 Arcade Awards. [82] Pac-Man also won the Video Software Dealers Association's VSDA Award for Best Videogame. [83] In 2001, Pac-Man was voted the greatest video game of all time by a Dixons poll in the UK. [84] The Killer List of Videogames listed Pac-Man as the most popular game of ...