Puckman Pockimon, also known as Jing Ling Jia Zu (精靈家族, roughly translates to "creature family") in Chinese, is a pirated arcade made by Genie.
Overview
Puckman Pockimon's gameplay.
The game is almost identical to Pac-Man, with Pikachu as player 2 and different maze variations. The only other "Pokémon" part is some of the ghosts are replaced with the Pokémon Caterpie and Munchlax. Also, when you die, you have the option of respawning if you insert another coin; no progress will be lost.
For every board that is completed, the player will be shown an intermission of a random digitized picture of different Asian girls.
Gallery
Puckman Pockimon cabinet.
Instruction card. Note the bad grammar and "GENIE 2000", the creator of Puckman Pockimon
Flyer for the game. Note the Chinese logo. This version also has a Two Bit Score copyright, while it was Genie themselves who distributed the English version of the game.
An example of an intermission.
Size comparison between a maze in Puckman Pokimon and the original Pac-Man.
Trivia
- The game has many connections to Pocket Monster on the Famicom, as it uses the same dancing sprite from it's ending when the second player is absent and there is at least one credit in the machine. The rabbit-like enemy from that game also appears in Puckman Pockimon.
- The game may be incomplete, as the game ends after an aquatic-themed level with no boss or hard level.
- So far, there are two known English and Chinese language versions of the game, both of which are emulated on MAME. The English version is under the name "Puckman Pockimon (set 1)", while the Chinese version is under "Puckman Pockimon (set 2)" according to the MAME directory. The Chinese version also seems to be distributed by a company known as "IBS".