Pac-Land Appreciation

[Necromancer]

Pac-Land is one of the bad games that I (grudgingly) like.  The tunes are grating and the graphics lack detail and variety, but I still find it fun dodging the ghosties with a fairy under my hat.

I've beaten this a few times- I don't find it difficult- however- once you beat it it turns into Pac-Land PRO -- which I have not beaten.

Same here, though I do find the later trips to be a challenge.  The PRO trips are absolutely crazy, so I don't expect I'll ever be able to beat those.

[nat]

I got this game when it was still a "new release" for the Turbo. I f*cking loved it back then, but it hasn't aged very well. On the other hand, the simplistic graphics were definitely a stylistic choice as opposed to being the result of laziness or anything to that end.

Anyway, I played this game to the point where I could 1cc the PRO game back in the day. I'm virtually certain I wouldn't be able to do this anymore, not that I've even tried in the past decade.

[Arkhan]

I got this game when it was still a "new release" for the Turbo. I f*cking loved it back then, but it hasn't aged very well. On the other hand, the simplistic graphics were definitely a stylistic choice as opposed to being the result of laziness or anything to that end.

Anyway, I played this game to the point where I could 1cc the PRO game back in the day. I'm virtually certain I wouldn't be able to do this anymore, not that I've even tried in the past decade.

it looks like the cartoon!

[Lorfarius]

I recently picked up a copy from eBay and overall I'm impressed. It's a fairly decent arcade conversion and though its not the greatest of platformers its still fun to work your way through the levels.

[Tom]

it looks like the cartoon!

 It looked like something someone had made in BASIC. I'm genuinely shocked at the amount of people that actually liked this game BITD, here.

[Necromancer]

Anyway, I played this game to the point where I could 1cc the PRO game back in the day.

Zoinks!  Most impressive. 

[Sinistron]

From wiki regarding the arcade Pac-Land-

"Ever the pioneer in video game history, Pac-Man dared to do what few other games were doing at the time: scroll. When Namco introduced Pac-Land into the arcades, they preceded Nintendo's own Super Mario Bros. as one of the earliest side-scrollers in history. And Pac-Land was no slouch either, featuring parallax scrolling for some of the background elements, an impressive feat that would not become common place until the 16-bit console era began much later."

So- was this the first side screen scrolling platformer with parallax elements? If not- what was?  As basic as it looks now- must have looked pretty impressive when it first came out.

[runinruder]

So- was this the first side screen scrolling platformer with parallax elements? If not- what was? 

There were Atari 2600 games with parallax elements.  Jungle Hunt comes to mind.

For whatever it's worth, Wikipedia credits Moon Patrol (arcade) as the first.

[ceti alpha]

So- was this the first side screen scrolling platformer with parallax elements? If not- what was? 

There were Atari 2600 games with parallax elements.  Jungle Hunt comes to mind.

For whatever it's worth, Wikipedia credits Moon Patrol (arcade) as the first.

That makes sense. I was dorkin' on Moon Patrol (Mame) last week sometime and noticed the parallax and sorta chuckled at it. I didn't realize Jungle Hunt for the 2600 had parallax.

[sunteam_paul]

Didn't Atari try to copyright parallax scrolling once?

[Arkhan]

So- was this the first side screen scrolling platformer with parallax elements? If not- what was? 

There were Atari 2600 games with parallax elements.  Jungle Hunt comes to mind.

For whatever it's worth, Wikipedia credits Moon Patrol (arcade) as the first.

That makes sense. I was dorkin' on Moon Patrol (Mame) last week sometime and noticed the parallax and sorta chuckled at it. I didn't realize Jungle Hunt for the 2600 had parallax.

oh yeah! the parallax on Jungle Hunt is pretty disorienting sometimes....

[Tatsujin]

it looks like the cartoon!

 It looked like something someone had made in BASIC. I'm genuinely shocked at the amount of people that actually liked this game BITD, here.

why? as long it makes fun? graphics is not all things

it's just classic many here may had played back in their very childhood in the arcades, restaurants, public swimming pool etc.

[sunteam_paul]

This thread has made me want to go and play Pac-Land. Bye!