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Rate GAMEBOY ADVANCE SP with 9 GAMES (Pataskala) $60

Original at craigslist external link    Wed, Nov 26

I have a black gameboy advance sp with 9 games. The gameboy is in perfect working order, has a few scratches and the wording on the front is a little faded, other than that it is perfect. The minor details could be covered up with a skin or used as it is. It comes with a wall charger and 10 games. The gam...

Rate Top 20 free iPhone games in the App Store | iPhone Footprint

Original at iPhone Footprint external link    Wed, Nov 26

You need to guide Pac Man to gobble up dots and fruits. Eating the blinking power pellets immobilize the dangerous ghosts eating them up earns you extra points. The ghost, Blinky, Pinky, Inky and Clyde are out there to kill pac man. ...

Rate The 20th century Pac-Man | Spotlight4

Original at Spotlight4 external link    Wed, Nov 26

Design: Pac-man is split into multiple levels where you need to gobble up white dots to score, while avoiding the evil ghosts that try to kill you. While you will mostly be killed before then, you can play for an infinite amount of time ...

Rate Podcast: The Essential Taito

Original at 1up.com external link    Tue, Nov 25

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By Jeremy Parish Space Invaders Space Invaders needs no explanation; like Pac-Man and Tetris, it's one of the handful of games that's instantly emblematic of the gaming medium. Tales of Japan's Invadermania (the one that resulted in an alleged shortage of 100-yen coins) are legend, and the seafood-lik...

Rate Street Fighter Underground Remix soundtrack drops today on the PSN!

Original at Capcom external link    Tue, Nov 25

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By JohnDmoney See you online tonight! Peace, John D Joe Esposito once eloquently proclaimed that "History repeats itself" and it's an honor for me to announce that Street Fighter returns today on the PlayStation Network. On a personal note, it's

Past Two Weeks

 

Rate Your Turn: (Not exactly) Fear and loathing in Brisbane

Original at The Age external link    Tue, Nov 25

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 Australia - You could find almost any arcade game that mattered here: Space Invaders, Pac-Man, Donkey Kong, games that people my age only really knew from mobile phone ...

Rate Android G1 exceeding expectations

Original at Pocket Gamer external link    Tue, Nov 25

 UK - So far, Namco has added a version of its timeless classic Pac-Man to the free-to-download Market service, while mobile stalwart Glu has chipped in with the ...

Rate Pac-Man Pinball 2

Original at Pocket Gamer external link    Tue, Nov 25

 UK - by Kath Brice If you thought all Pac-Man was good for was swallowing small pellets and evading ghosts, then you'd be wrong. He's also good for lending his ...

Rate Review: Pac-Man Pinball 2

Original at www.pocketgamer.co.uk external link    Tue, Nov 25

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Rate Consolation, U.S.A.

Original at Something Awful external link    Fri, Nov 21

Pac-Man Joystick Token Healthpack. Pills, ghosts and eating disorders: The Richard Kyanka Story. David Vs. David: Battle of the Bores Garbage Day. 'American Idol' Davids Cook and Archuleta continue their rivalry with... zzzzzz. ...

Rate Joystick Token Healthpack: Pac-Man

Original at Something Awful external link    Fri, Nov 21

By ctstalker@somethingawful.com (Dennis "Corin Tucker's Stalker" Farrell) If two pastel ghosts with no mouths discuss existential issues in an empty arcade, will it make a sound?

Rate Alt Text Video: Top 5 Most Guilt-Inducing VideogamesVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at Wired News external link    Fri, Nov 21

By Lore Sjoberg The first truly guilt-inducing videogame may have been Pac-Man. The sad spiral and quacking sound that accompanied Pac-Man's death was enough to make a generation of gamers dig deep in their pockets to find the shining quarters that would restore...

Rate Sonic Gaming Chair Would Have Been Great, 15 Years Ago

Original at OhGizmo! external link    Wed, Nov 19

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By Luke Anderson This post is syndicated with permission from GamerFront.net Sometimes I run across a product that I think would have been awesome, had it come out a decade earlier. Usually these are themed products, featuring a character that hasn’t been popular for years. Sure, the likes of Pac-Man, Mari...

Past Month

 

Rate Prey the Stars Review

Original at 1up.com external link    Fri, Nov 14

By Tyler Barber While I still don't know what the hell the title means, I do know that Prey the Stars is a chaotic joy. As one of four Pok?mon knockoff characters, your main goal is to eat everything in sight. Sounds simple, but Stars is actually a complex, tense, and competitive game with an undeniable Mario K...

Rate OhGizmo! » Archive » Own Your Very Own Pac-Man Arcade Cabinet

Original at OhGizmo! external link    Tue, Nov 11

By Luke Anderson If one of your childhood dreams was to own your very own Pac-Man arcade cabinet, then you’ll be happy to hear that Namco has re-released one of their most popular cabinets. This full-sized arcade unit stays true to the original design, ...

Rate Namco Releases It's Virtual Arcade To The X-Box 360

Original at 1uponu (WordPress) external link    Wed, Nov 5

By knight0fkh0nshu Pac-Man® - Released in 1980 The sequel to the original arcade phenomenon!  Use keys to unlock doors hiding fruit and power pellets to clear the stage.   Eat the Super Pellet to turn into Super Pac-Man, a super-sized Pac-Man, able to chomp through barriers and knock away pesky ghosts.

October of 2008

 

Rate Retro Gaming Decals Put Space Invaders On Your Wall

Original at OhGizmo! external link    Thu, Oct 16

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By Luke Anderson Etsy seller vinylwalldesign is offering up a set of Space Invaders and Pac-Man vinyl decals that is sure to give your office that retro feel. The $45 Space Invaders set comes with 18 invaders, 2 missiles and 2 ships for you to arrange to your liking. The $20 Pac-Man one is a bit disappointing wi...

Rate Review: T-Mobile G1

Original at CrunchGear external link    Wed, Oct 15

By Peter Ha But Namco’s Pac Man is FREE! Rejoice! -The whole barcode scanner app is lame. Comparing the price of items doesn’t locate local pricing for me and I don’t care how much a bottle of Jack costs online. Maybe it’s because my GPS wasn’t ...

Rate Microsoft announces new 360 bundles for the holidays

Original at SlipperyBrick.com external link    Fri, Oct 10    2 related articles

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By Conner Flynn Xbox360fanboy] Microsoft isn’t messing around this holiday season. They want consoles in homes. They dropped the price on all Xbox 360 SKU’s a few months ago, and it just got better. Microsoft has announced that later this month the new 360’s will hit store shelves with some free games inclu...

September of 2008

 

Rate 'Namco Museum: Virtual Arcade' (XBLA) - 50 New Screens

Original at WorthPlaying.com external link    Fri, Sep 19

 CA - Created exclusively for the Xbox 360 by Pac-Man's original creator, Toru Iwatani, Pac-Man Championship Edition was met with critical acclaim when it was ... Namco Museum: Virtual Arcade Screenshots TeamXbox all 2 news articles

Rate Top 5 Drugged-Out Classic Games

Original at 1up.com external link    Mon, Sep 15

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By Scott Sharkey The original everyman, Pac was relatable to all of us. Who here hasn't swallowed pills until we've turned yellow and started seeing ghosts? And honestly, who hasn't ever had the muchies so bad they ate their keys? His lifestyle caught up with him, though, and like all the really great ones h...

Rate Arcade-In-A-Box Slim Arcade Custom Controller Review

Original at IGN external link    Thu, Sep 11

 CA - by Samuel Claiborn September 11, 2008 - Ever since the first caveman programmed a lackluster port of Pac-Man for the Atari 2600, the dream of bringing the ...

Year 2008

 

Rate Today in Joystiq: May 22, 2008

Original at Joystiq external link    Thu, May 22

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By Ross Miller Rumors & Speculation Japanese songs may hit Rock Band soon Microsoft: PGR5 could be driven by Forza dev Culture & Community Zero Punctuation pops old Painkiller for fun Tim Schafer had a baby! (not literally)Permalink | Email this | Comments

Rate More Baby Pac-Man Progress

Original at Noise Land Arcade external link    Wed, May 21

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By Jamie Sometime towards the middle of last week, I got sick of dealing with useless jerkfaced bastards customers and quit work early. I headed to the garage to start working on prepping my Baby Pac cabinet for painting. Look at all the crap I had stowed away inside:

Rate Two Brothers Meditating Upon Questions of Pac-Man

Original at Kotaku external link    Sat, Apr 19

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By ogood 10:12:38 AM Owen: alright, now the ghosts 10:12:47 AM Fletch: ghosts don't count towards crap, they ghosts. 10:13:04 AM Owen: no, he consumes their ghost costume but not their eyeballs. it's roughage. 10:13:30 AM Owen: "ghost-monsters" according to teh cartoon

Rate Today in Joystiq: February 5, 2008

Original at Joystiq external link    Tue, Feb 5

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By Ross Miller Devil May Cry 4 PS3 'accomplishments' may hint at Home integration Rumor: PSP God of War being ported to PS2 Rumor: Dead Rising 2 being handled by western developer Rumor: Conker and Jade Empire bound for Xbox Originals Analyst: American PS3 sales to match Xbox 360 in 2008

Rate Pac-Man Puzzles Virtual Console [Vc Update]

Original at Kotaku external link    Mon, Jan 14

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Pac-Attack (Super NES®, 1-2 players, Rated E for Everyone, 800 Wii Points): Pac-Man makes a rare appearance outside of a maze environment in Pac-Attack, a fun and quirky puzzle game. This unique entry in the genre puts its own twist on established conventions and adds one of gaming's most...

Rate Best of the Rest: James' Picks of 2007

Original at Joystiq external link    Tue, Jan 1

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By James Ransom-Wiley If not worthy of a Top 10 spot, then certainly Pac-Man deserves Joystiq's 'Comeback Player of the Year' award. I covered Pac-Man CE's overblown launch in early June, but it wasn't until I became a devoted player at home that I realized the sheer genius of the first true Pac-Man sequel since '...

Rate The Joystiq Weekend: December 29-31, 2007

Original at Joystiq external link    Mon, Dec 31

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By Christopher Grant Rumors & Speculation Rumor: UT3 on Xbox 360, 90% complete Rumorang: Jade Empire sequel in the works Culture & Community DIY Ms. Pac-Man cocktail cabinet CVG picks the Best and Worst Box Art of 2007Permalink | Email this | Comments

Rate The Unreasonable Stance: Nostalgia aside, Pac-Man still beats Halo in every category

Original at CrunchGear external link    Wed, Nov 21

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By Devin Coldewey Is there anything at which Halo betters Pac-Man? I will admit that in its storyline, Halo approaches this. But the skill with which Pac-Man completely, but almost undetectably, lampoons the modern human condition is too much for Halo’s space-opera yarn to aspire to, despite its epic sco...

Rate Be The Dot-Eating Ball

Original at Kotaku external link    Wed, Oct 17

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By Mike Fahey INTRODUCING 'PAC-MAN PLUS'. IT'S PAC-MAN, ONLY FOR REAL... Q: How do the other ghosts know when Pac-Man has eaten a Power Pill? A: A sound will be played that will notify the Ghosts that Pac-Man has eaten the powerpill. Then the hunted becomes the hunter and ghosts brown trouser it.

Rate Opinion: Vinyl on the Rise

Original at Penn State Digital Collegian external link    Wed, Jul 25

Step into a few shops along College Avenue, and it's easy to see a trend toward retro. With Pac-Man-adorned T-shirts and a subculture of Atari players, the question begs to be asked. What else has gone retro? The Recording Industry Association of America reported that vinyl LP sales grew fr...

Rate Virtually Overlooked: Pac-Land

Original at Nintendo Wii Fanboy external link    Thu, Jul 19

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By JC Fletcher Bally/Midway, the US distributors of Pac-Man, made a couple of weird sequels and spinoffs to Namco's original Pac-Man. Baby Pac-Man was a half-pinball, half-video game chimera. Professor Pac-Man was a quiz game. Namco went off on other weird tangents, like Pac & Pal, featuring a help...

Rate Xbox Live Arcade Review: Pac-Man Championship Edition

Original at Blogcritics external link    Sun, Jun 17

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By Brian Szabelski In 1981, Midway began distribution of a Japanese arcade game called Puck Man, which was renamed in North America as Pac-Man. Created two years earlier by Namco's Toru Iwatani, Pac-Man broke ranks with most of the other arcade games, steering away from space-themed shooting games and bir...

Rate GAME: Review: Pac-Man Championship Edition for Xbox Live Arcade

Original at Geek.com external link    Wed, Jun 13

By James Pac-Man: Championship Edition exemplifies what's great about Xbox Live Arcade. The title is fast to download, easy to pick up and play, and it brings back fond memories. Pac-Man is the same dot-gobbling fiend he's always been. The mazes, the ghosts; it's like a trip back to old school arcade...

Rate This is madness! This is Pac-Man 2!

Original at Joystiq external link    Fri, Jun 8

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By Alexander Sliwinski Give Pac-Man Championship Edition on XBLA a chance, seriously. Earlier this week Microsoft announced Pac-Man CE (one of the worst title choices in gaming history, but more on that in a second) as this week's game for Xbox Live Arcade. This news came following a misstep by a Microsoft exec. sa...

Rate Xbox Live Arcade 6/6: Pac-Man Is Back, Now With Neons

Original at Playfeed external link    Thu, Jun 7

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The Championship Mode. This is the main game mode designed by NAMCO BANDAI Games and Iwatani specifically for the championship round of the Xbox 360 Pac-Man World Championship. This mode – as well as all others within the “Pac-Man Championship Edition” – features redesigned mazes with wi...

Rate Opinion: Today in Joystiq: June 6, 2007

Original at Joystiq external link    Wed, Jun 6

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By Ross Miller Games blamed for decline in national park attendance Anecdotal: Microsoft low on Xbox 360 coffins Are today's students getting enough gaming time? Invisible Harleys: A Mario Kart Parody' short filmPermalink | Email this | Comments

Rate Pac-Man Championship 800 points today’s Live Arcade Wednesday title

Original at Things That ... Make You Go Hmm external link    Wed, Jun 6

By TDavid Championship was created with the help of one of the original Pac-Man coin-op designers Toru Iwatani. Pac-Man remains the bestselling coin-op in arcade history with over 100,000 sold the first year according to Pac-Facts. Also listed in the Pac-Facts I didn’t realize that the Buckner &a...

Rate Feature: King of the Puck MenVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at Kotaku external link    Tue, Jun 5

Everyone at the Xbox 360 Pac-Man World Championship was promoting something. Namco—or as the North American executive corrected himself, "Bandai Namco"—was promoting Pac-Man in his latest debut, Pac-Man Championship Edition. Pac-Man creator Toru Iwantani was promoting his legacy...

Rate Meh: New Pac-Man Mazes Coming to 360

Original at Kotaku external link    Tue, Jun 5

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It looks like that "big" Microsoft news from the Pac-Man championship tournament finally hit today. Namco game designer Toru Iwatani created a new edition of Pac Man for the Xbox 360, due to hit Live tomorrow for 800 points. Pac-Man Championship Edition will feature the first new mazes for...

Rate Madcatz Xbox 360 Gamestick too flaccid

Original at Things That ... Make You Go Hmm external link    Sun, May 20

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By TDavid Although I still have a few thousand unredeemed Microsoft Points, I don’t have many Live Arcade games on my Xbox 360 Elite yet. As mentioned last Sunday I’m still working my way through the surprisingly entertaining Viva Pinata. We’ve also rented and watched a few of the movies through the L...

Rate Wii Virtual Console Releases For May 14, 2007

Original at Blogcritics external link    Mon, May 14

By Brian Szabelski Pac-Man (NES, 1-2 players, 500 Wii Points): Move Pac-Man through the maze, avoiding ghosts and eating all the Pac-Dots. Beware, each of the ghosts behave differently. When Pac-Man chomps a Power Pellet, he becomes invincible and is able to eat the blue ghosts. The more ghosts Pac-Man eats i...

Rate Xbox 360 Pac-Man World ChampionshipsVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at Kotaku external link    Wed, Apr 18

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WAKKA ... WAKKA ... WAKKA Microsoft and NAMCO BANDAI Create Video Game History With First-Ever Xbox 360 "Pac-Man®" World Championship · Gamers who want to start practicing can download "Pac-Man" (400 Microsoft Points) now from Xbox LIVE Arcade on the Xbox 360.

Rate XBLA Pac-Man World Championship begins next week!

Original at Joystiq external link    Wed, Apr 18

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By Christopher Grant Filed under: Arcade, Retro, Microsoft Xbox 360First announced at the Tokyo Game Show, Microsoft has just released the details of their first-ever Xbox 360 Pac-Man World Championship. In short, beginning next Wednesday, April 25th, the Xbox Live Arcade Pac-Man leaderboards will be er...

Rate WAKKA … WAKKA … WAKKA Microsoft and NAMCO BANDAI Create Video Game History With First-Ever Xbox 360 “Pac-Man®” World Championship

Original at Bink.nu external link    Wed, Apr 18

By spy@bink.nu NEW YORK — April 18, 2007 — Microsoft Corp. and NAMCO BANDAI Games Inc. today made video game history by announcing the first-ever Xbox 360™ “Pac-Man” World Championship, presented by Quiznos. From April 25 to May 9, fans of one of the world’s most beloved video games of all time will compete o...

Rate Ms. Pac-Man For iPod Reviewed

Original at Inside Mac Games external link    Mon, Apr 9

Playlist has posted a new review of Ms. Pac-Man for iPod, one of several games available for Apple's portable multimedia device. Ms. Pac Man recreates the pellet gobbling action of the original arcade title, but awkward controls and a tiny visual footprint resulted in a score of 2.5 out of 5 fr...

Rate Ain't It Cool 8-Bit Art?

Original at Kotaku external link    Tue, Mar 27

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By Michael McWhertor For today's premiere of 8-BIT: A Film about Art & Video Games at the Alamo Drafthouse in Austin, Texas, the Ain't It Cool News crew held a contest. The AICN Games guys solicited the best in 8-bit inspired art and got some pretty spectacular submissions.

Rate Apple Games Features iPod Gaming

Original at Inside Mac Games external link    Tue, Mar 27

Yesterday Apple Games posted a new feature focusing on iPod Gaming, offering reviews of Pac-Man, Vortex, and Bejeweled. In addition to detailing the gameplay, the articles also offer a collection of tips and tricks to help players get the most from their iPod gaming sessions.

Rate Editorial: Infinite lives

Original at EL33TONLINE external link    Wed, Jan 17

So I've been wondering about something lately. Do you remember, those who are old enough, when you used to start a game from the beginning and play it as far as you could get before you died? Arcade games were like that, so were console and PC games - games like Super Mario Bros, Lode Runner, Cen...


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