Pac-Man: Special Color Edition
One of the most popular and influential games of the 1980's, Pac-Man stars a little, yellow dot-muncher who works his way around to clear a maze of the various dots and fruit which inhabit the board. Pac-Man's…
Pac-Man: Special Color Edition is an arcade developed by Namco, released 1 September 1999 on Game Boy Color.
What Pac-Man: Special Color Edition is
Pac-Man: Special Color Edition is an arcade game developed by Namco and released in 1999. It is available on Game Boy Color only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
One of the most popular and influential games of the 1980's, Pac-Man stars a little, yellow dot-muncher who works his way around to clear a maze of the various dots and fruit which inhabit the board. Pac-Man's goal is continually challenged by four ghosts: The shy blue ghost Bashful (Inky), the trailing red ghost Shadow (Blinky), the fast pink ghost Speedy (Pinky), and the forgetful orange ghost Pokey (Clyde). One touch from any of these ghosts means a loss of life for Pac-Man. Pac-Man can turn the tables on his pursuers by eating of the four Energizers located within the maze. During this time, the ghosts turn blue, and Pac-Man can eat them for bonus points. This only lasts for a limited…
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: Special Color Edition is the 100th of 282 entries we hold in the Pac-Man series. The next entry was Pac-Man World in 1999.
What it launched against
Pac-Man: Special Color Edition launched on 1 September 1999, within three weeks of Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear and Shadow Man.
Released around the same time: Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear, Shadow Man.
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