They also had unofficial "speed-up kits" that, added to a legitimate machine, made the game faster and presumably harder. Pac-Man were known for having lots of bootleg versions, many with altered mazes and graphics. Pac-Man the most popular bootleg video game ever. Midway was impressed and, together with the hackers, edited the sprites back into Pac-Man–style sprites and released it without the permission of Namco because Midway wanted a Pac-Man game out while Namco was readying Pac-Man's true sequel, Super Pac-Man. GCC, who created that hack, thought this game could be successful and brought the game to Midway, Namco's American distributor. It started life as a bootleg hack of the original Pac-Man called Crazy Otto, which feature the player character as a Pac-Man head with legs. However, it wasn't actually an authorized sequel. Pac-Man, was even more popular than the original, and featured more complex mazes and randomized play. However, the ghosts prove an equal challenge if run on a random AI.Ī sequel, Ms. Top players could develop and memorize specific patterns to clear levels without losing lives. It is said that the ghosts were given different colors to enable the programmers to give each a different "personality" or movement pattern. The original game famously had no random number generator: The ghosts moved through the maze in a completely predictable pattern. Four ghosts pursue the character, and their touch is fatal unless Pac-Man recently ate a power pellet. The player must steer the character around a maze and "eat" all of the dots and four special power pellets. The game depicts an abstract round yellow character vaguely reminiscent of a head with a mouth opening and closing to gobble up nearby objects.
It also was the first video game to get an Animated Adaptation, with a reluctant Marty Ingels in the lead role. Ironically, its poorly implemented Atari 2600 port helped turn Pac-Man Fever into Pac-Man Cancer. It sparked a pop-culture phenomenon, and helped drive the early-1980s video game craze. A well-known game developed by Namco (now Namco Bandai) from The Golden Age of Video Games, and one of the most popular games ever, Pac-Man was the first really successful Maze Game, and one of the first games to be popular with both sexes.
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