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In computer gaming, Pac-Man clones are unauthorized ("pirate") versions of Namco's popular arcade game Pac-Man. is an amusement company based in Japan, best known overseas for Video games development is an Arcade game developed by Namco and licensed for distribution

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Arcade clones

One of the most notable clones was Hangly-Man (a mangling of "Hungry-Man"), a variant of which was Caterpillar Pac-Man made in 1981 by Phi. Hangly-Man is a hacked clone of the Pac-Man arcade game It appeared sometime around 1981 at the height of the Pac-Man In the latter, one plays as a caterpillar, and the ghosts are replaced by spiders. Caterpillars are the Larval form of a member of the order Lepidoptera (the Insect order comprising butterflies and Moths A ghost is said to be the apparition of a Deceased person frequently similar in appearance to that person and usually encountered in places she or he frequented Spiders are Predatory Invertebrate Animals that have two body segments, eight legs no chewing mouth parts and no wings

Another popular clone was Piranha, which replaced Pac-Man with a munching fish. A video game clone is a Video game or game series which is very similar to or heavily inspired by a previous popular game or game series A piranha or piraña (pɨˈrɑːnjə/ /pɨˈrænjə/ /pɨˈrɑːnə or /pɨˈrænə/ is a member of a family of Omnivorous Freshwater Fish The maze was replaced with a coral reef, the ghosts with squid. Coral reefs are Aragonite structures produced by living organisms found in marine waters with little to no nutrients in the water Squid are marine Cephalopods of the order Teuthida, which comprises around 300 species (In an earlier variant, they were little more than ghosts with extended sprites for the tentacles). In Computer graphics, a sprite (also known by other names see Synonyms below is a two-dimensional/three-dimensional Image or Animation that A brief reference to the game was even included in the Pac-Man TV series, when in an underwater scene, a fish is shown eating a ghost-squid. Pac-Man, also known as Pac-Man The Animated Series, is an animated TV series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions and based upon the popular

In 1981, Leisure and Allied released Ghostmuncher/Galaxian, a dual bootleg of Pac-Man and Galaxian. Galaxian is a 1979 Fixed shooter Arcade game by Namco and released by Midway Mfg One could change the game with a dip switch. In this bootleg, the colors, sounds, and names of the ghosts have been changed. The "Galaxian" bootleg is also sped up significantly. [1]

Data East released Lock'n'Chase in 1981 as a response to the game. also abbreviated as DECO, was a Japanese video game company Their main headquarters were located in Tokyo, while their American subsidiary Data East USA was Lock 'n' Chase is an Arcade game released by Data East in 1981. Here Pac-Man was replaced with a thief stealing coins from a bank vault. The ghosts were replaced with police, and the thief could temporarily block passages with doors. A popular port of this game was released for the Mattel Intellivision in 1982. The Intellivision is a Video game console released by Mattel in 1979.

Soon after the release of the original Pac-Man, many other maze-themed video games entered the arcade market (Make Trax, Thief, Lady Bug and Mouse Trap being the most prominent). Make Trax is an Arcade game introduced by Williams in 1981. It is a maze-themed game which is similar to Pac-Man. Thief is a 1981 Arcade video game which is extremely similar to Pac-Man. Lady Bug is a Pac-Man -like maze-based Insect -themed Arcade game produced by Universal Games and released in 1981. Mouse Trap is a 1981 Arcade game released by Exidy, similar to Pac-Man.

Contemporary home computer / console clones

In 1981, H.A.L. Labs released a near-perfect port of Pac-Man for the Apple II called Taxman. is a Japanese Video game developer that was founded on February 21 1980. As part of its settlement with Atari, H. A. L. surrendered the original Taxman code to Atari. When Atari's Atarisoft imprint released an official Pac-Man for the Apple II not long afterward, they simply used Taxman with a new title screen. After the settlement, H. A. L. Labs returned with Taxman 2, which retained the Pac-Man-inspired play mechanics, but set the game in different mazes.

Acornsoft, a division of Acorn Computers, released an exceptionally accurate clone of Pac-Man called Snapper for the BBC Micro in 1981 (and later for the Acorn Electron in 1983). Acornsoft was the software arm of Acorn Computers Ltd, and was a major publisher of software for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron. Acorn Computers was a British Computer company established in Cambridge, England, in 1978 Snapper is a computer game written by Jonathan Griffiths for the BBC Micro and released as one of the launch titles for Acornsoft in 1982 The Acorn Electron is a budget version of the BBC Micro educational/ Home computer made by Acorn Computers Ltd. After allegedly receiving a cease and desist letter from Atari, Acornsoft modified the game, changing the character graphics. A cease and desist (also called C & D) is an order or request to halt an activity or else face legal action

The 1981 Magnavox Odyssey² game K.C. Munchkin was withdrawn after Atari successfully sued its creator, citing blatant and undisguised imitation of the Pac-Man characters. The Magnavox Odyssey², known in Europe as the Philips Videopac G7000, in Brazil as the Philips Odyssey, in the United States Munchkin is cartridge number 38 in the official Magnavox/Philips line of games for the Philips Videopac.

In 1982, Greg Kuperberg created PC-Man, published by Orion Software for the IBM-PC, with 4-color CGA graphics, tricky gameplay and intelligent ghosts. Greg Kuperberg (born July 4 1967 is an American Mathematician of Polish birth known for his contributions to Geometric topology, quantum is an Arcade game developed by Namco and licensed for distribution The Color Graphics Adapter ( CGA) originally also called the Color/Graphics Adapter or IBM Color/Graphics Monitor Adapter Because the original arcade game used portrait orientation of the CRT, Greg rotated the original levels by 90 degrees to fit the PC screen. The game appeared as a boot loader diskette and later in a DOS version. A PC booter, or booter, is a type of Software for Home computer era (early 1980s to early 1990s Personal computers that was loaded and executed By using a disk editor on the booter disk, one can find traces of a deleted personal formal application letter by Greg, now a math professor. A disk editor is a Computer program that allows its user to read edit and write raw data (at character or Hexadecimal, byte-levels) on disk

Texas Instruments released a clone called Munch Man for the TI-99 home computer line in 1982, in which the player lays down a "track" (or "links", in Munch Man parlance), as he progresses through the maze instead of eating pills — a change made by TI to avoid possible lawsuits from Midway. Texas Instruments ( better known in the electronics industry (and popularly as TI, is an American company based in Dallas, Texas, USA The Texas Instruments TI-99/4A was an early Home computer, released in June 1981 originally at a price of USD $525

While many text mode clones have spawned since, the earliest such one known is Pac-Gal by Al J. Text mode is a kind of computer display mode in which the content of the screen is internally represented in terms of textual characters rather Jiménez in May 1982. It had a later version from Sep 26 that year named "Pac-Girl" which added a "champion board" layout.

PacPC And Ms. Pac PC

Recently two Windows friendly version clones have surfaced which emulate gameplay of Pac-Man and Ms. Pac Man perfectly. In this version of each the cheat code is "eggs" and press enter during game play. Then press F1 to skip levels , F2 to gain extra lives , F3 for Fruit Bonus , and F12 to become invincible. On these versions you can get past Level 255 on Pac PC.

Handheld clones

Several handheld versions were released in 1981, most using VFD technology. A vacuum fluorescent display (VFD is a Display device used commonly on consumer-electronics equipment such as Video cassette recorders Car radios The playability of most handheld games of this age was limited by today's standards, since each ghost and Pac-Man position was represented by an immovable fixed-cell character that lit up accordingly. Game titles included:

Recent clones

In the 1990s, Microhard/Magic Games released Funny Strip. This was a maze game and a clone of Pac-Man and Ms. Pac-Man featuring nudity. [2]

Also in the 1990s, Best Before Yesterday released a game called Maniac, which merged Pac-Man with the game of hangman against a time limit. Hangman is a paper and pencil Guessing game for two or more players To pass a stage, you had to guess the word, not clear the maze of dots. The game also featured a host of selectable powerups and a number of original songs as background music. One powerup featured the quote "Thunderbirds Are Go!". This article is about the 1966 movie For the 2004 song by Busted, see Thunderbirds/3am.

In 1992, Creative Dimensions released a Pac-Man clone called CD-Man. CD-Man ate dots and ran from enemies such as spiders and sharks. [3]

In 1993, Christophe de Dinechin wrote a Pac-Man clone for the HP-48 series of calculators. The HP-48 is a series of Graphing calculators using Reverse Polish notation (RPN and the RPL programming language, produced by Hewlett-Packard

In 1995, SemiCom released Hyper Pac-Man[4], a clone similar to Pac-Mania with some Bomberman-style elements. Pac-Mania is an arcade Video game in the Pac-Man series released in 1987 by Namco and distributed by Atari Games is an arcade -style Maze -based Video game developed by Hudson Soft. This was followed up by a sequel called Twinkle;[5] in this version Pac-Man is orange and wears sunglasses. TWINKLE is a hypothetical Integer factorization device described in 1999 by Adi Shamir

Comedy Central's South Park inspired a free online game at the official website much like Pac-Man. Comedy Central is an American Cable television and Satellite television channel that carries predominantly Comedy programming South Park is an animated American television comedy series created and written by Trey Parker and Matt Stone for Comedy Central The game entailed Eric Cartman running around a maze eating "Cheesy Poofs" in place of the standard beads. Eric Theodore Cartman,commonly referred to by his Family name, Cartman, is one of the four main Fictional characters in the animated series

Cartoon Network released two free Pac-Man inspired games online. One featuring Fred Flintstone collecting rocks while avoiding bowling balls and another featuring Brak's Head collecting beans while avoiding Zorak heads. Frederick J "Fred" Flintstone is a Fictional character who originated in the animated Sitcom The Flintstones on Brak is a former Supervillain on the 1966 Hanna-Barbera cartoon Space Ghost, portrayed as a catlike alien space pirate For the town in Armenia see Dzorak. Zorak is a cartoon former Supervillain who first appeared in the Hanna-Barbera cartoon

In 1998, The computer game Starcraft was released, with a custom scenario titled "Wakka Wakka" that was as close to a Pac-Man clone as StarEdit. StarCraft is a Military science fiction Real-time strategy Video game developed by Blizzard Entertainment. exe (the game's scenario editor) allowed.

In 1999, ESD released Multi Champ Deluxe. Multi Champ Deluxe is an adult-oriented, multi-game system in which the player chooses a girl and then one of six games, with the object being to win the game to save the girl. The games include a clone of Pac-Man. [6]

In 1999, Atari 2600 homebrew game company Ebivision started working on their own homebrew port of Pac-Man, but were later afraid that Namco would sue them for it. The Atari 2600 is a Video game console released in October 1977 They turned into a Pac-Man clone that's called Pesco.

In 2000, Genie released Puckman Pokemon[7] which teamed up Pac-Man and Pokémon. If you came here to express your personal opinion about Pokémon please go somewhere else Player 1 controls Puckman and Player 2 controls Pikachu's head. is one of the fictional species of Pokémon creatures from the multi-billion-dollar Pokémon Media franchise &mdasha collection of Video

Also in 2000, a Hong Kong original Famicom game called Hot Dance 2000 includes a pirated version of Pac-Man (with the original Japanese names) in addition to Dance Dance Revolution-style games. The Nintendo Entertainment System (often abbreviated as NES or simply Nintendo) is an 8-bit Video game console that was released by Dance Dance Revolution (abbreviated DDR) previously known as Dancing Stage in PAL territories until the announcement of

eGames has released several 3D clones of Pac-Man, including 3D Maze Man, 3D Chomper, and 3D Ms. eGames Inc ( is a Software publisher and developer for casual and traditional Computer games. Maze. These were made without license, and prompted a lawsuit including Hasbro, Atari America and Elorg. The games have been discontinued as a term of the settlement. [8]

Grandpa Pac-Man was an unofficial sequel created by Lafe Travis Games for the PC, and is available as freeware. Freeware is computer Software that is available for use at no cost or for an optional fee Grandpa Pac-Man has 13 mazes to master, 12 intermissions, and 30 different prizes to gobble up. [9]

In 2003, an open source Pac-Man clone called Njam was released. Open source is a development methodology which offers practical accessibility to a product's source (goods and knowledge The source code is freely available under GPL license, and besides regular gameplay it features two multiplayer modes where players can play either together or against each other. It also has networking support, so up to four players can play simultaneously. The game is available on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, and many other operating systems. Microsoft Windows is a series of Software Operating systems and Graphical user interfaces produced by Microsoft. Linux (commonly pronounced ˈlɪnəks Mac OS X (mæk oʊ ɛs tɛn is a line of computer Operating systems developed marketed and sold by Apple Inc, the latest of which is pre-loaded on all currently [10]

DirecTV's new interactive channel, Game Lounge, features a game called Hot Wheels Monster Truck Smashdown. DirecTV (trademarked as "DIREC' TV' " is a Direct broadcast satellite (DBS service based in El Segundo California, USA, that was founded A red monster truck takes the place of Pac-Man, and other monster trucks replace the ghosts. The game plays very much like regular Pac-Man.

Topfield Digital Set Top boxes also feature a Pac-Man clone, along with one of Tetris and another of Brick as part of their extras included in their menus. Established in Korea in 1998 TOPFIELD Co Ltd is a Consumer electronics manufacturer making broadcasting receivers other video and Tetris (Тетрис is a Video puzzle game originally designed and programmed by Alexey Pajitnov in June 1985 while working for the Dorodnicyn A brick is a block of Ceramic material used in Masonry construction laid using mortar.

See also

References

  1. ^ ghostmuncher / galaxian at arcade-history: video games, pinballs, slot machines, etc
  2. ^ Funny Strip
  3. ^ Game CD Man, free download the game CD Man
  4. ^ hyper pacman at arcade-history: video games, pinballs, slot machines, etc
  5. ^ twinkle at arcade-history: video games, pinballs, slot machines, etc
  6. ^ multi champ deluxe at arcade-history: video games, pinballs, slot machines, etc
  7. ^ puckman pockimon at arcade-history: video games, pinballs, slot machines, etc
  8. ^ Hasbro Interactive Successfully Settles Intellectual Property Suit | Business Wire | Find Articles at BNET.com
  9. ^ Lafe Travis Fredbjornson Games
  10. ^ Njam homepage
Maze game was a Computer game genre description used by computer journalists during the 1980s to describe any game in which the entire playing field was a Maze
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