Legendary Pac-Man strikes back for XboX
Microsoft Corp. has released an updated version of Pac-Man, the 1980s arcade game-sensation from Namco Ltd., now part of Namco Bandai Games Inc., for the Xbox 360 game console. Pac-Man’s original creator, Toru Iwatani, designed the revamped “Championship Edition,” which was unveiled at the Pac-Man World Championship in New York on Tuesday. Iwatani, who is now a video game professor at Tokyo Polytechnic University, also crowned the winner of the Microsoft-sponsored competition, Carlos Daniel Borrego from Pachuca, Mexico.
The Pac-Man makeover includes mazes that change shape as the game is played, new soundtracks and high-definition graphics, though the game retains the arcade-inspired look. There are six new timed game modes, including the “Manhattan” mode, inspired by New York streets. Gamers, Blinky and Clyde fans and nostalgia-seekers can buy and download the game from the Xbox Live Arcade for 800 Microsoft points, or about $10. Enthusiasts partial to Pac-Man’s red-bowed, lipsticked girlfriend will have to settle for a more traditional-looking version of the popular Ms. Pac-Man sequel, released to the Xbox Live Arcade in January. I love this!
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Martin, the image of this post doesn’t work correctly
thanks for info, fixed
All these years and this is the best the old guy can do?