Pack'n Boy, originally known as Pac-Man, is an unlicensed port of the 1980 arcade game Pac-Man to the NEC PC-8801, FM-7, and NEC PC-6001 home computers. It was developed by Compac and published by PSK in 1982.
Overview[]
The game itself is an accurate clone of Pac-Man with the maze turned on its side to accommodate the screen. Unlike the original game, the dots have holes in them, points from eating a ghost change color depending on which ghosts were eaten before, Clyde is now yellow likely due to color limitations, and stages are now counted by the fruit that appears in the stage. (e.g Cherry = Stage 1) The Coffee Breaks feature different intermissions with the first one being based on the first Coffee Break from Super Pac-Man and the other two seemingly being original, with the second one featuring rocks from Dig Dug.
In 1984, Dempa would get the rights to port Pac-Man to several Japanese home computers, including the ones Pack'n Boy was on. Dempa's ports of Pac-Man bear a striking resemblance to Pack'n Boy, featuring the maze being turned on its side, dots with holes, a differently colored Clyde, and the words "Coffee Break" being in the intermissions. The game is also credited to T. Tabeta instead of T. Maekawa.
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Trivia[]
- Due to the game being renamed to Pack'n Boy, it's possible that they had legal troubles from Namco.
- The NEC PC-6001 version features an I/O graphic which runs around the maze before the game starts. A red ghost featuring a bow, replaces Pinky. A similar character, Yum-Yum, would debut in Jr. Pac-Man in 1983.
- This game, Galack, Star Struck, and Internal Trouble are the only non-eroge games by PSK, who are most well known for their Lolita series of video games featuring little girls in gruesome or sexually suggestive situations.
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