Arcade Game: Pac-Land (1984 Namco)
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- Опубліковано 17 чер 2017
- A side-scrolling platform/run 'n jump game inspired by a Pac-man video game based on the cartoon show from the early 80s. You as Pac-Man must help the lost fairy get back to her home in fairyland. You must also avoid the ghosts: Pinky, Inky, Blinky, Clyde, and Sue and other ghosts from pursuing you whom populate Pac-Land. The power pills make Pac-Man invincible and able to eat the ghosts. You must complete the stages within a time limit or you will be vulnerable and being chased by ghosts. There are also fruits that Pac-Man can collect for points. When you get to the final stage which is the fairyland you are given a pair of magic shoes to help you return to your home safely. When Pac-Man reaches home safely, he will meet Ms. Pac-Man, Baby Pac-Man, Chomp Chomp the Pac-dog and Sourpuss the Pac-cat
This is the first game in the Pac-Man series departure from the maze roots going more towards platform direction. Much of the work and design has already completed for Hana-Barbara's Pac-Man cartoon show.
The controls are only left and right and a jump button.
There are a 8 trips in the game totaling 32 levels . After the 8th trip, the 9th trip repeats the 5th trip where level 33 becomes level 17 with increased difficulty and the game is endless.
1st Trip: 2:02
2nd Trip: 5:30
3rd Trip: 8:56
4th Trip: 12:32
5th Trip: 16:08
6th Trip: 19:46
7th Trip: 23:28
8th Trip: 27:02
Note: No cheats used. Only savestates were used. The game is endless with only 32 levels. The levels start repeating at level 33 After the levels start repeating, at 31:05, various cheats were used. The level counter can only go up to 99 and level 100 becomes level 0. After this it automatically restarts all the way back to level 1 so I quit afterwards. - Ігри
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I loved playing this! I never really understood why Pac-Land doesn't get the love or recognition it deserves, though, especially since it predates Super Mario Bros. by like a year! A forgotten classic gem arcade game!
I've been so happy to see it's finally gotten some love in the Super Smash Bros. series!
The Real Sean W. Stewart this is so fascinating, your comment sent me on a deep dive. tbh i first started looking things up because i assumed you were wrong, i figured Mario had to be first. but you were right! the Mario Bros. arcade game predates this one, but that wasn’t a side scrolling game. And this game had parallax scrolling! in 1984!
so my guesses for its lack of popularity are the video game crash of ‘83 probably hurt it, it was probably poorly marketed due to its connection to the Hanna Barbera cartoons (the suits always seem to screw up video game multimedia stuff, am i right?), and the biggest reason... it was never ported to the NES!
I know what you’re thinking: 1, this dude has too much time on his hands. and 2, of course it was on the NES, wikipedia says so and there’s cartridges on ebay! But the internet has an understandable tendency of conflating all things Famicom with all things NES (Famicom even redirects to NES on wikipedia, and even the Nintendo online stores sometimes mix the two up), and cartridges are easy to fake. I can find no evidence outside of second hand markets that Pac-Land was ever truly on the NES
Mr. Spaghetti, rest assured, Pac-Land never made it outside of Japan on the Famicom, so there is no NES version of this one. Like Mappy, it stayed in Japan.
Because the controls were so damn difficult!
Played this every day of my holiday in Devon when I was 12 years old and I've loved it ever since.
I've just purchased an arcade machine with it on 👍
For an arcade in 84, these are some smooth animations...
I never noticed how smooth pacmans running animation is…
My local arcade had this one... it's quite rare finding it in the wild! I loved how it played the theme from the Pac-Man cartoon.
They also used the US designs for Pac Man, Ms. Pac Man (hair and bow vs. bow alone) and Baby Pac Man (boy in US, girl in JP/world version).
Shame on nintendo for not adding those hats as alts, such a missed opportunity
Nintendo doesn't develop smash
@@zen_arcade but they do have direct control on it, it's developed by a second party developer, sakurai even said that they choose the dlc characters.
Sort of like all of bowser in smash, he just feels like an gritty reboot of bowser that is hype realistic, and fights closer to what Ridley would fight like like in his body than how Bowser does, don’t even get me started on lost episode creepy pasta hyper realistic bowser a.k.a. Giga Bowser!
Eh. Sakurai isn't too bright on these things. Just look at Sonic's moveset, then play Sonic Battle
Namco helped make the new Smash games, so they are to blame too. Odd, they didn't include the Pac-Land music to the Pac Land stage.
So that's where Pac-Man's fire hydrant in 'Super Smash Bros.' came from.
You’re right 🍎
🍒🍓🍊🍎🍈🚀🛎🔑
And his Jump
The the whole stage dedicated to Pacman at all
So the pacman in smash is the pacman in pac-land!?
Oh my goodness, I absolutely loved this game in my teens!!
Pac-Man: I'm just off out to stir up trouble with the neighbours and meet a beautiful woman who showers me with free gifts. I'll be back for my dinner!
Well, the neighbours are kind of trying to kill him so he has kind of a right for self-defense.
@@JordanViknar true
There is a reason for it
Then Ms. Pac-Man finds out Pac-Man has been cheating on her with the mother of all fairies
@@YoBoiDavidBanks Or maybe because of characters like them, Pac-Man is a ladies’ man who pissed off his self-proclaimed girlfriend Pinky (formerly boyfriend had it been the 80s) by summoning the ghosts to go after him until according to them “he finally learns to respect women”! But I think we all know PM was in the right!
THIS. IS A WRENCH.
I'd never even heard of this game before. It's like finding a missing evolutionary link.
I'd always wondered as a kid how Pac-Man went from being a one-screen maze-chaser to the full-blown graphic adventure it was in Pac-Man 2.
Now it's clear as day.
Gotta love the demo that's programmed to just hold right and randomly jump and just instantly dies
I want to be a good friend of PAC-MAN in the PAC-LAND.
:[
If you play this game you are a good friend of PAC-MAN in the PAC-LAND!
Fun fact: Shigeru Miyamoto was inspired by this game to create Super Mario Bros. True story.
wow i've spent countless quarters playing this game... and ironically, this is also the game that brought me to Nintendo... one day my dad told me that his friend has this game that i play at arcades, so i went to check it out, and turned out it's Super Mario Bros, which is strikingly similar... we end up buying the NES ourselves and rest is history
So much time (and 10p's) spent playing this in the arcades as a kid.
thanks for sharing Old Classic Retro Gaming
This brings back that instant childhood innocence of believing that some how everything would be alright
Nice Walkthrough on this 1984 arcade video game, and the Fairy Queen is my favorite character on Pac-Land.
Thanks for your description, it was very interesting.
I remember playing the NES version as a child. Never beat it. Nice to see what the arcade version looks like.
I had to have spent well over $1000 in quarters playing this game.. It's by far the best game in the Pacman series..
Thanks for the money lmao
@@pacman6744 well it was worth it. have me a life time of good memories.
There was an arcade perfect port of this on the "PC Engine." Classic game - but this guy is not a professional player. There are loads of bonuses that he's missing - like jumping at the end of the stage for bonus, resetting the time by eating 6 ghosts in a row, etc. Anyway, thanks for the memories :)
And I remember there was a flower to grow in every stage..
there were soooo many hidden manouvres in this game.... jumping off the screen, moving stuff, jumping at the end of each screen at the right time!
+router coach Pac-Land wasn’t arcade perfect on the PC Engine/TurboGrafx it graphically looks and/or the audio, music, sound is out of place in some areas
how the hell would a casual know those exist??
If I went back in time I'd tell Namco to make a console. They were the gods of making amazing, ground breaking games but they don't get the recognition they deserve and I think it's because of no console manufactured by them.
If I remember correctly, they were developing one but eventually canned it.
I really like the ghost designs in this game
Well they were based off of the cartoon
I never knew this game existed, it looks very advanced, the graphics as the sound are better than any GameBoy Colour game in the year 1999, Pac Land is from the year 1984!!!
Super Mario Bros looks older than this, Megaman looks older too but the 2 appeared later...wow
Love your logo by the way by the up upright
I love how the demos end when Pacman dies XD
I barely remember seeing this at a mall arcade
This is a stage in smash bros
This is a *shitty* stage in smash bros.
-ftfy
@@julienjohnson9670 Yeah... While i like the effort made to represent an important part of Pac-Man's history, i would have much preferred the Pac-Village from the Pac-Man World series instead. I actually grew up with those games. Or at the very least they should have dropped it for an HD version of Pac-Maze from Smash 3DS for Ultimate. MUCH more iconic and recognizable. And prettier to look at.
No!
@@daseal1479 and I grew up with pacman fever
@@julienjohnson9670 I actually like the stage.
This was such a revolutionary sidescrolling game for it's time...took Nintendo almost 10 yrs to surpass technically.
10 years?? Try maybe 1 or 2. But yeah it definitely was the actual innovator everyone thought Super Mario Bros was.
10 years? What are you smoking? Mario 3 is still the best 2D platformer ever and that was only what, 4 years later?
@@duffman18 I'm not really a mario fan so yeah this better than any mario game for me.
That music... soundtrack to my youth
never knew bout this till smash ultimate
And you never knew this came and was a inspiration of super Mario bros
Trying for long time to remember the name of this video game, i thought the name was Lakeland, i loved to played it for.long hours after school.
I had no. idea. this game existed. And now pacman2 for the snes that came out TEN years later feels lay less weird.
As a kid I have played this game at an arcade in Rimini, Italy. I was not able to get too far, mind you.
One of my favourite old arcades, was up the local centre. You're quite a bit better at it then me though 😅
next time someone complains about this stage in smash just remind them that it doesnt have the ghosts
DOH, I MUST HAVE THOSE POWER PELLETS, GO FIND ME THE POWER PELLET FOREST!
A real favorite of mine
0:29 Top 10 Haunting Photos Taken Seconds Before Disaster*
Pac land usa looks like Hanna Barbera's Pac Man cartoon
The only Pac-Man game based on the animated series.
(0:01) I got scared after I plugged the arcade machine.
The doors and keys at 13:30 could make a fun level where you choose routes based on doors like this
there was one at big lots in the early 2000s
Don't forget to jump at the end of each level for a special bonus up to 7650 points.
This game is fantastic. Just found it in 2022.
5:27 - It's Pepper Pac-Man and Pac-Baby from Hanna-Barbera's Pac-Man: The Animated Series.
Sill playing this, still havnt beaten it 😂❤
i had no idea this game existed (and i wasn’t that much of a pac-man fan) until i unlocked the pac-land stage in super smash bros. for wii U by playing each of the smash tour boards
The game is based in the Cartoon Series released in 1982.
Ah I remember the days where pacman wore a fucking fedora
I can't believe I've never heard of this game, it would have been like Donkey Kong Country back then.
I played it in the arcades at the time. It was definitely a step above a lot of the dross but then a lot changed in a short time in the early 80s. Atari in particular jumped a long way ahead in graphics and sound with games like Marble Madness and Paperboy in the same year as Pacland, mostly down to 16 bit chipsets. The parallax scrolling amazed me at the time.
This game was groundbreaking, it pre-dated Super Mario Bros by a year.
Really cool looking game, I wonder why it was never ported to the NES. It seems to really give Super Mario Bros a run for its money.
I had this game for the NES (Famicom really) when I was a child. It was a fun-to-play port but graphics was very downgraded.
I COMPLETELY FORGOT ABOUT THIS GAME!!!
SAME
in the beginning, the air got released.
Ahhh this the origin of pac land in super smash
A pub my dad used to take me and my brother too every now and again had this on an arcade machine in a little games room, I always felt like I was cheating when it let you choose the stage to start on, was this the first side scrolling platformer?
yo lo juge y no me acordaba de ese juego aorita que lobi medio tristeza y me recordó los momentos cuando lo juge y me puso a mi con nostaljia😭😭😭😢😢😢
Pac-Man Is At It Again In Pac-Land From Namco!
P-p-p-p-p-pac power!
Arcade Archives: Pac-Land will soon be available tomorrow on Nintendo Switch Lite.
The original super mario
How do you glide or slow down your fall speed at the first plank? I’m effectively stuck & unable to get past level 3 because I lose all my lives at that exact point.
Eddie Donnelly could clock this in Mario lupos rathmines
De niño creo haber llegado como máximo al Round 21, son 20 minutos de juego, y pensaba que había llegado lejos XD
Es difícil ese juego. Llegaste más de lo que yo pude xd
This game is the most revolutionary game of all time. Until Mario came
This reminds me of the chrom dinosaur game
Looks like somebody see this as seen in Super Smash Bros. (Ultimate)!
why the hell he never jumps at the end of levels?
Damn! And if you did it right there were 7650 points!
@ Try to record an hour of PAC-Land and let’s see how good you are at it
They don’t go the jump at the end of each level that scores you points... one jump at the right time nets you 7,000 score timed right at the end of every level.
I thought I was a god getting to level 8 using the weird joystick set up
I want this turned into a plug and play
It has been by 1up arcade
@@JimmyTheMower 1 year ago.
I've never seen this game in arcades. I wonder why it's so rare. Did it simply not meet expectations? Was the hardware prone to malfunctioning? The game doesn't look bad. Seems better than all the "REAL THRILLS" monstrosities that occupy American arcades today
It came out around the video game crash, so vendors were very hesitant to purchase new machines
Took a while, but I had several arcades around me that carried this game, though they weren't the closest ones. Only ever found Pac Jr. and Pac-Mania in one place, each.
Is this available on a console with these graphics and features?
4:29 so thattsss where the victory screen in ssbu came from
Wwooooooooooooooooooooowww
Why the "flying Yoshi" sound effect from "Super Mario World"?
yes a good game for its time based on the american cartoon. not sure but i think pc engine game was nearest to the arcade.
6:47 How do you make this jump?
Edit: So it seems you have to mash right and then mash both right and jump or you won't reach all the way
I like the other version better because he wears a fedora hat!
No final boss battle with Mesmeron?
Cartoon villain only I think.
Scott Andrew Hutchins there is one port of pac-land that has a finite number of rounds and after the last one is an ending cutscene
@@chrisketchum8042 The music is from the cartoon, as is the character design.
December 25, 1984-fresh out of the confining mazes comes Pac-Land. The first of its kind that had no joystick. What’s up with that?!
It’s Supposed To Be Like Konami's Track And Field Because It Had Just The Buttons Not The Joystick That Was The Reason Why Pac-Land Had No Joystick
Класс игра
Why doesn't the player jump at the end of the level - this gave bonus points.
He did at 1:29:29...
0:00- 0:01 All that code Is at the beginning of every arcade game.
Hall up, at 0:01 on the right, there is a Pac-Man facing upwards, a Pac- Man that's just a ball, a bowl, and a green Pac-Man that looks like it has rona. Does this mean anything?
@@user38373_ Probably just the code of the game booting up I think.
@@spongebobsquarepants6973 NO, NO, NO!!!!!! F you! The creator is trying to create some sort of secret code, idiot!
@@user38373_ Calm down! I'm telling the truth! There's no code in the games files! 🙄
@@spongebobsquarepants6973 You're the dumbest person of all time. Get an education. 😠
Setsuna Yuki and Kasumi Nakasu both ever cleared Pac Land. Setsuna scoring 2450970 pts.
Um explain to me why the bombs the airplane ghosts were dropping were not killing him?
Your missing you 7650 points at the break time
Shizuku Osaka ever reached Round 99 in PacLand and scored 1134980 pts.
Doesn't seem to be a real person after looking up the name... in which case, who cares?
I can’t get passed the ramp on round 3. How the hell do you do it
Namco At Least Got So Much Credit To Hanna-Barbera And The American Broadcasting Company.
Wow pacman has a family 12:31
The game begins in 2:07
Does it bother anyone else that the person playing this doesn't jump at the break time bit?
Walnuts sports center Orpington mid 80s
I may not be the only one who likes the game....
But I'm the only one who likes the smash bros stage.
I think the stage is MUCH better than people say it is
@@SoshiTheYoshi Probably the only who argue with the stage were the competitive ones, for me the stage was pretty fun to play, especially on ultimate where you can have an 8 player madness
stage three is as far as I ever get. that jump over the water part just aint happening. I don't know how you slowed your jump like that to cross it but I pushed every button and nothing
Waggle the joystick
@@pominozjohn2150 Pac-Land has no joystick, you pressed buttons to make him run left or right (if you held them down he walked at a slow pace).
@@tonydecaro The Eurpoean version we had in arcades had a joystick that you had to keep pressing in the direction you wanted to travel.
SAME!!! (On Pac-Man Museum Plus.)
This game came out in 1984, but the ghosts are driving cars from the 1800s
People drove these cars in the 1950s n 60s too
Kinda funny how this went from a classic arcade game to one of the most hated things by Smash fans lol