Abraham Lincoln in Annual Message to Congress, Dec. 1, 1862
Everyone should know who this guy is or I will know you have been living under a rock all this time!
To avoid offending everyone that does not know, I will still explain this guy. He is known as Pac-Man
Also known by my little brother, whacka whacka.
a young japenease game designer named Toru Iwatani is inventing something new, something that was going to change video games forever. He came to Namco wanting to make an arcade game that was based on pinball he also wanted to make the game appeal to women. To appeal to a woman, it had to be non-violent most arcade games were about guns or killing an objective. He wanted to make a game based on the word taberu which mean to eat. Namco’s president liked this idea. Iwatani was assigned nine other developers to bring his vision to life. Since games back then were limited to what they could use, they came across their first problem. What would the character look like? Iwatani has said that he went to a pizza parlor and one of his co-workers took out a slice, and he said that would be the design.
The main design of the game was going to be based on a maze like structure, avoiding dangers or in this game ghosts, while trying to collect all the pellets. Simple game, simple design. The team soon released Pac-Man abd hoped for the best.
Pacman was a hit right of the bat and for the second time in history Japan had to make more 100 yen coins since all were going into Pacman machines! It had fresh new gameplay and was challenging so it would make the person whose playing addicted. In Japan the success of Pacman would cause an unexpected career change, vegetable stores would take out the vegetables and buy ten Pacman machines to make the store into an arcade, this made the stores gain much money.
The success in Japan made it possible to bring the game in the U.S. It also became popular in the United States. Women also liked the game for being simple and addictive. Iwatani vision was a success
Now unto the gameplay
By looking at this video, a person can see how simple the game is. The main objective of this game as mentioned before is simple: collect all the pellets in the maze while avoiding the four ghosts in the maze. Nothing much can be said about this game, however something this simple can be addictive if given the chance to try out!
My Perspective:
At first, this game looks boring since there is nothing happening other than a yellow guy going wacka wacka. My uncle told me to review this game since I told him about the blog I have been posting on. He told me how addicting this game is and told me to give it a shot. I played the game through xbox live and I am going to admit that this game is fun. I played up to two hours of this game. I am happy to know this has a save feature because in the arcade version, once you die three times, the game is over with no continues. Not only that, but there are 245 levels! Good luck trying to beat it, because I am not.
Overall:
For being such a simple game, not much can be said. The creator manage to make the game he envisioned and people loved it. If you are a person who never played a game before , give this game a try. There should be an arcade area somewhere in this world who should still have this arcade or look through a console. Overall, this shows us that something simple can make a huge difference, long pong
9/10
and remember....
wacka wacka wacka!
site used:
http://www.pacman1.net/history/
Special Thanks:
Juan Gonzales for the site for the history of pac-man
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