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Pac-Man Championship Edition

Pac-Man Championship Edition is similar in basic gameplay to the original 1980 Pac-Man: players have to eat dots, while avoiding the four ghosts that roam around the maze. Championship Edition, however, also…

60 6 June 2007 ESRB E

Pac-Man Championship Edition is an arcade developed by Namco Bandai Games, released 6 June 2007 on PlayStation Vita, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable and Xbox 360.

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What Pac-Man Championship Edition is

Pac-Man Championship Edition is an arcade game developed by Namco Bandai Games and released in 2007. It was published by Handmark. It is available on PlayStation Vita, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, Xbox 360, Leapster, Android, BlackBerry OS, iOS and Legacy Mobile Device. It carries an ESRB E age rating.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Pac-Man Championship Edition is similar in basic gameplay to the original 1980 Pac-Man: players have to eat dots, while avoiding the four ghosts that roam around the maze. Championship Edition, however, also brings many gameplay differences. The game was designed by Tōru Iwatani, the creator of the classic original 1980 arcade game Pac-Man, and it was Iwatani's final game before his retirement.
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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Pac-Man series

Pac-Man Championship Edition is the 150th of 282 entries we hold in the Pac-Man series. The next entry was Namco Museum DS in 2007. Its critic score of 60 is 10 points below the series average of 70. The highest-rated entry is Pac-Man: Championship Edition DX at 98.

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How it was received

Pac-Man Championship Edition holds a critic score of 60 out of 100. That places it above 17% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2007 averaged 64, so it scored 4 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Pac-Man Championship Edition launched on 6 June 2007, within three weeks of The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass, Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword, Ninja Gaiden Sigma and The Darkness. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass, Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword, Ninja Gaiden Sigma, The Darkness.

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When did Pac-Man Championship Edition come out?
Pac-Man Championship Edition was released on 6 June 2007 for PlayStation Vita, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, Xbox 360, Leapster, Android, BlackBerry OS, iOS and Legacy Mobile Device.

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