Why Pac-Man Link to heading

Pac-Man is a classic arcade game. Some would even consider it THE classic arcade game. So much has already been said about Pac-Man that I don’t really feel the need to go into great detail here.

Some notable aspects of the game:

• Established the “Maze Chase” genre. You don’t really see these any more, but for a long time there were tons of them.
• Was the first game to have “power ups”.
• Had the first mascot character in a video game (eventually leading to Mario, Sonic, etc).

Differences Link to heading

• Even though this is an arcade game clone, my version has a modern style of menu.
• I’ve included options to adjust volume levels.
• The original ghost AI has a few well known bugs which players often use to their advantage. I did not attempt to emulate these bugs.
• Various other minor things.

Misc Link to heading

• I was going to do a whole write up on the ghost AI, but it’s been done before and much better so instead I will just link to a youtube video that explains it here