About the Game
History
How to Play
Geneology
Imitations
Links

Original Release
Arcade

Other Releases
Apple II
Apple Macintosh
Atari 2600 (Atari)
Atari 2600 (Ebivision)
Atari 2600 (Nukey Shay 1)
Atari 2600 (Nukey Shay 2)
Atari 2600 (Rob Kudla)
Atari 2600 (Dennis Debro)
Atari 2600 (Dintar816)
Atari 5200
Atari 8-Bits (Atari)
Atari 8-Bits (TEP392)
Commodore 64 (Atari)
Commodore 64 (Donald Burden)
Commodore VIC-20 (Commodore)
Commodore VIC-20 (Atari)
ColecoVision (Atari)
ColecoVision (Opcode)
ColecoVision (EA)
Game Boy
Game Boy Advance
Game Boy Color
Intellivision
Famicom / NES
PC (DOS/Windows)
Sega Game Gear
Sony PlayStation
Sony PlayStation 2
TI-99/4A

Picture Galleries
Coming Soon

Screenshot Galleries
Title
Level 1
Level 2
Level 5
Level 9
Level 13
First Intermission
Second Intermission
Third Intermission
Extra

Audio Clip Galleries
Title
Intro
Intermission
Lost Life

Pac-Man Geneology

Pac-Man, as a Namco mascot, has appeared in many different games spanning many generations of hardware, both in the arcades and at home. By no means is this a complete list.

1979 - Puck Man - Clear the maze of dots while avoiding the multi-colored monsters!

1980 - Pac-Man - The hungry yellow "Man" comes to America and gets a new name.

1982 - Ms. Pac-Man - Arguably the most popular video game sequel of all time, this one introduces Pac-Man's girl, along with the idea of changing mazes and bonus fruits that don't stay still. Ms. Pac-Man later became the star of other games, listed in her entry.

1982 - Pac-Man Plus - A souped up edition of Pac-Man, featuring different bonuses and a few other surprises.

1982 - Baby Pac-Man - A unique combination of video game and pinball machine.

1982 - Super Pac-Man - Pac-Man gets hefty in this fast-paced sequel. The maze now has areas that have to be unlocked, and new energizers which grant Pac-Man invincibility (temporarily, of course).

1983 - Jr. Pac-Man - Another young edition to the Pac-Man family expands (literally) on the ideas introduced in Ms. Pac-Man. Too big to fit on the screen, each maze scrolls as Junior moves about. Also, the bonus treats can actually do more harm than good if not eaten in time.

1983 - Pac-Man & Chomp Chomp - Also known as Pac & Pal, this little-seen sequel introduces a new character, either a pig named Chomp Chomp or a ghost named Miru depending on the release, supposedly Pac-Man's friend but also a bit of a handful. Game play required more strategy and memorization than previous titles, which is probably the reason for the game's lack of popularity.

1983 - Professor Pac-Man - A complete departure from the rest of the series, this game requires players to solve visual puzzles rather than eat dots and avoid ghosts.

1984 - Pac-Land - Abandoning the maze, Pac-Man stars in one of the first side-scrolling platform games, a genre later popularized by the Super Mario Bros. series.

1987 - Pac-Mania - Pac-Man gets the 3D treatment, sort of, in this game featuring a three-quarters viewpoint (the same used in games like Marble Madness and Paperboy). Pac-Man also gets the ability to jump, as well as bonus treats that do more than just award extra points. But then there are two more ghostly adversaries, who also know how to jump.

1993 - Pac-Attack - Pac-Man gets his own Tetris-like puzzle game.

1994 - Pac-Man 2: The New Adventures - This platformer is apparently meant to be the "proper" sequel to Pac-Man, though really it has more in common with Pac-Land. The home versions of this game have ways to play the original Pac-Man and Ms. Pac-Man, and the Sega Genesis release even offers a new game called Pac Jr., which is similar to, but not the same as, Jr. Pac-Man.

1995 - Pac-in-Time - Another side-scrolling platformer.

1996 - Pac-Man Arrangement - In celebration of their pioneering video game titles, Namco went back and "remixed" six of their more popular games, spicing them up with new graphics, new sound effects and music, and new elements of gameplay.

1999 - Pac-Man World - Pac-Man truly goes 3D this time in this adventure game. Two sequels followed.

2000 - Pac-Man: Adventures in Time - Another 3D treatment that sends Pac-Man into new mazes based on different periods of history.

2002 - Pac-Man Fever - Pac-Man joins several other Namco game characters (including Ms. Pac-Man) in playing a video board game.

2005 - Pac 'n Roll - Pac-Man debuts on the Nintendo DS with this game that isn't entirely unlike Marble Madness.

2006 - Pac-Man World Rally - It seems no video game character collection is complete without a racing game, and this is Pac-Man's.