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Maze. Mode (s) Single-player, two-player. Pac-Man is a 1982 maze video game developed and published by Atari, Inc. under official license by Namco, and an adaptation of the 1980 arcade game Pac-Man. The player controls the title character, who attempts to consume all of the wafers in a maze while avoiding four ghosts that pursue him.
Oct 26, 2024 · For fans of retro games, Pac-Man is nothing short of iconic—a game so loved it’s been ported to nearly every console imaginable. But the Atari 2600 version, released in 1982, left players ...
Mar 27, 2024 · The ‘ video game crash of 1983’, also known as the ‘Atari shock’, marked the rapid decline of the US video game industry, including a $500 million loss for Atari. The success of Atari in the late 70s led to dozens of copycat companies, flooding the market with consoles of varying quality. Consumers became overwhelmed by the choices and ...
Jan 2, 2017 · The Atari team, now lead by Warner Communications, now were in search of a successor for their Atari 2600 estimating that the lifespan of the Atari 2600 was about 3 years. Deciding to stake their ...
- Mattel Stumbles, While Atari Face-Plants
- Pac-Man
- Grand Prix
- Demon Attack
- Pitfall!
Mattel began to run into trouble with its Intellivision once the company tried to branch out from sports games. Because Mattel couldn’t license properties from Atari, Nintendo, or Sega, it instead made its own translations of popular arcade games. Many looked better than what you’d find on the 2600, but ultimately played more slowly thanks to the I...
The single biggest image-shattering event for the 2600—and Atari itself—was the home release of its Pac-Man cartridge. I can still feel the crushing disappointment even now. So many of my friends and I looked forward to this release. We had talked about it all the time in elementary school. Pac-Man was simply the hottest thing around in the arcades...
The next few games we’ll discuss further illustrate the quality improvements upstart third-party developers delivered, in comparison with Atari, which had clearly become too comfortable in its lead position. First up is Activision’s Grand Prix, which in hindsight was a bit of an odd way to design a racer. It’s a side-scroller on rails that runs fro...
At first glance, the visually striking Demon Attack looks kind of like a copy of the arcade game Phoenix, at least without the mothership screen (something it does gain in the Intellivision port). But the game comes into its own the more you play it. You’re stuck on the planet Krybor. Birdlike demons dart around and shoot clusters of lasers down to...
A watershed moment in video game history, David Crane’s Pitfall! was one of the best games released for the 2600. As Pitfall Harry, your goal is to race through the jungle and collect 32 treasures—money bags, silver bars, gold bars, and diamond rings, worth from 2,000 to 5,000 points each. Jump and grab vines, and you soar over lakes, quicksand, an...
Jan 27, 2013 · The Atari 2600 came bundled with two joysticks, a pair of paddle controllers and a game cartridge - initially Combat, later Pac-Man.Fairchild's Channel F was Atari's main competitor at launch, a ...
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Sep 2, 2023 · Atari pioneered the home video gaming industry in the 1970s with their 2600 console, which brought (at the time) state-of-the-art games like "Space Invaders," "Pole Position," the "Pac-Man" series ...
