gamerjet's Full Review: PAC-MAN COLLECTION for Game Boy Advance (GBA)
PacMan Collection for the Game Boy Advance offers four classic Pacman games perfectly packed for easy portability. In PacMan Collection for Game Boy Advance, you can choose from the original arcade Pacman, PAC-Attack, PAC-Mania, and PacMan Arrangement.
PACMAN
The original PacMan is perfectly recaptured in all its glory. For those who don't know, PacMan is a challenging maze game where the player has to guide Pacman through a series of the same maze layout while ghosts chase him down. Pacman is required to eat every dot and power dot scattered throughout the maze while dodging the ghosts, collecting fruit which appears at the center of the maze twice randomly, and using the power dots to enable him to eat the ghosts. There is also a warp tunnel located on the left and right side of each maze, which allows PacMan to warp from one side of the maze to the other. As you progress and complete more mazes, the ghosts become faster, the fruit becomes worth more points, and Pacman
does speed up slightly too. The game ends once all of Pacman's lives are lost.
Scoring for PacMan
The scoring for PacMan is as follows.
Each Dot worth: 10 points
Each Power Dot worth: 50 points
Chomping on more than one ghost before the Power dot wears off increases their worth as follows.
First Ghost worth: 200 points
Second Ghost worth: 400 points
Third Ghost worth: 800 points
Fourth Ghost worth: 1600 points
Cherry worth: 100 points
Strawberry worth: 300 points
Orange worth: 500 points
Apple worth: 700 points
Pear worth: 1000 points
Galaxian Ship worth:2000 points
Bell worth: 3000 points
Key worth: 5000 points
PAC-Attack
PAC-Attack is a wonderful type of puzzle game that has you
dropping blocks similar to Tetris pieces while trying to clear lines and earn points. What makes this game different from Tetris is that a lot of the pieces also include a ghost with them. Line up the ghosts so that every few moves a Pacman can appear and eat those ghosts; which causes the block pieces remaining to fall and clear lines so you can earn even more points. As you progress, the pieces begin to fall faster and faster, more monsters are included with pieces and PacMan appears far less often as you reach the higher levels. To aid the player, fairies will appear once you have eaten so many ghosts and these fairies will clear all of the monsters in the first couple of lines. PAC-Attack also includes a Puzzle mode. Puzzle mode features 100 different puzzles and offers a
password system so you can continue your puzzle mode progress later.
PAC-Mania
PAC-Mania is similar to the original PacMan. Your goal is the same, but now PacMan can jump! You must use this new jump ability to dodge the many ghosts that populate each maze. The beginning levels start out with 4 and 5 ghosts, and then as you progress to higher levels you will encounter as many as 12 ghosts. Also in the later levels, you will encounter ghosts that can jump too. PAC-Mania features four different mazes: Block Town, PAC-Man's Park, Sandbox Land and Jungly Steps. PAC-Mania also features two new power pills, a red pill and a green pill. The red pill turns all of the ghosts blue and makes them worth 7650 points when eaten. The green pill gives PacMan a speed boost for a short pieord of time. The game ends
once all of Pacman's lives are lost.
Scoring For PAC-Mania
The scoring for PAC-Mania is as follows.
Dot: 60 points
Power pill: 300 points
Red pill: 7650 points
Green pill: 1000 points
Ghosts: 200, 400, 800, 1600, 3200, 7650 points
PacMan Arrangement is the classic Pacman game remixed with very nice graphics, colorful mazes, and a brand new techno soundtrack. The game features six new power-ups which include: a brown sack, a magic wand, a pink pill, a blue pill, a red pill, and an orange pill. The brown sack will remove all of the ghosts from the maze for a short period of time. The magic wand will turn all of the ghosts into presents. The pink pill gives you 1000 points and also has the same effect as the brown sack. The blue pill allows PacMan to be in two places at the same time. The red pill gives PacMan a speed boost. The orange pill gives 2500 points. PacMan Arrangement features 25 different mazes and a boss battle at the very end. This game also features a continue option if you lose all of your lives. If you decide to continue, your score will be reset to 0.
Overall Opinion
PacMan Collection offers a lot fun for a small budget price. The graphics and sounds of all four games is wonderful and it sounds perfect on the Game Boy Advance. I really enjoyed this game and I feel it is just perfect for long car trips. I do however feel that this collection is missing one vital PacMan game, Super PacMan. Other than that, its perfect. I highly recommend adding this game to your Game Boy Advance game library!
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