I Ranked All 14 Games in Pac-Man Museum+
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- Опубліковано 28 лип 2024
- Pac-Man Museum+ features 14 different Pac-Man games from the original arcade to a few console ports like Pac-Man Championship Edition and more. Here's a quick look at all 14 games and where I rank them.
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Pac Man arrangement was always my favourite. Especially because all the ghosts have a special ability (like teleporting, placing new dots or duplicating) and in the end there is a big boss battle
Yeah pac man arrangement the arcade version was my favorite too so I’m glad we can play it on switch now
Pac-Man Arrangement Arcade Version sucks.
I didnt even know Arrangement existed until Museum+ and it blew my mind... So mad i didnt discover it earlier. So fun
Good old memories...
Pac-In-Time actually did actually get released in the US, they just seem to be using the Japanese version because the US one references Ms. Pac-Man.
Pac in time was actually released worldwide instead of USA, Japan, and Europe releases.
Is there a controversy with Ms Pacman that I missed
Oh I found it, legal right dispute. Shame, that stopped Pacman 2 from being in this collection as well.
The Japanese one has Ms. Pac as well but they edited her to be Pac-Mom.
I think they did this version because its harder than the international version.
I want a collection with the Pac-Man World trilogy.
Me too❤️
SAME!!! Also with Pac-Man World Rally as an unlockable!
I agree.
Yes! Yeeeeessssss! I need that collection remade! PMW3 was my freaking childhood! Went through it over 30 times. I had way too much free time back then, thank you childhood. 🤣 Got the collection back about 7 years ago and still haven't beat it 100% Never did 100% on that game once.
@@samjaxwhistler OMG SAME but I grew up the ds version
Too bad they didn't have like the Pac Man World games or at least 1 of them, that would have given this a lot of variety. Glad to see 256 and Battle Royale on here though, those are great additions. BTW it's on Game Pass for anyone not in the know.
Guess we'll just have to hope for a Pac-Man World Trilogy collection sometime down the line.
I feel like Namco's been super weird about releasing the Pac-Man World games. Not sure why
@@mjdxp5688 maybe gccc and the ms.Pac-Man bs
Pac-Man 256 is superior on console because you can unlock all the power ups faster and all the themes are free!
I didn't know it was on Gamepass and I'm glad it is
Pac-Mania a D? Oof it’s probably my favorite one. Great graphics and music, the jump was needed and it can be satisfying missing a certain death with some fancy and lucky jumping.
PAC-MANIA is my favorite game. AND IT GETS A D
Pac in time is also a Doki Doki Panic of an old Amiga game called Fury of the Furries!
Thank you Guru Larry
Well the snes version is a different game
Pac-Man arrangement is an amazing game. How could you put it at C Tier?! It’s my favorite Pac-Man game!
Yeah but its no pac-land🤣
Same, love Arrangement
Yeah, he forgot to mention the 5th ghost, Kinzo.
I was coming to the comments to say the same thing lol. Arrangement is my fav fosho
Pac-in-Time DID release on the SNES in the US. But for some reason, they went for the Japanese rom
Odd.
Maybe it was just easier to translate the rom than just insert the US game.
@@JohnRiggs speaking of the US version have you seen the cover art for it. Its one of the worse cover arts I have ever seen for a SNES game
@@garlicbread1107 wow that’s bad lmao
@@garlicbread1107 lol
@@Rountree1985 seriously Europe and Japan get an awesome boxart while we get a bad boxart like what is this supposed to represent?
Ms Pac Man for Sega Genesis was my favorite of all the Pac Man and affiliate games.
That was a very good one. So many mazes and modes.
I was very upset a couple years ago when they delisted the original Pac-Man Museum. That was the only way to play Pac-Man Battle Royale & I had just found out about it, and boom, delisted. Very glad they brought this back.
Great overview John. Pac-man 256 and Champion Edition might be my favorites from this collection. And I have to say, it is stunning how well OG Pac-Man holds up as a game today. So well-designed.
Like others have said, it would have been nice if this had included some of the Bally games. Jr. Pac-Man is a long-time favorite of mine. And I do think Champion Edition DX and Ms. Pac-Man are each a notch better than their immediate predecessors. But I do enjoy this collection for what it offers.
Why isn't Championship DX in this collection?!? That's the most baffling omission. They have two versions of Arrangement so no excuse there. This now means this game is unavailable on Switch. There is already a mobile port of this game on Android, so half (probably more than half) the work was already done.
Sadly, anything Ms. Pac-Man is going to be rarer and rarer as we go forward. :(
CE DX is perfect
This game collection is amazing! My favorite here would have to be Pac-Man 256. In fact, I had this video playing in the background as I played through it lol
I hooked up my fight/arcade stick for this and it's pretty fun. I like how there are objectives to strive for in order to unlock other content. It adds a fresh new layer to the games. Game Pass really came through on this and Sniper Elite 5 recently.
PacMan motos was a pac man themed update of an old arcade game from the 80s (called unsurprisingly Motos) - it was a top down 2D game with similar mechanics (bump your opponents off the playfield) - a hidden gem (albeit one that has appeared in a lot of Namco collections over the years).
I've never been a huge Pac-Fan, but Super Pac-Man is probably my favorite; I love being able to EAT THE MAZE. I did also have a lot of fun with Pac-Man Championship Edition 2.
4:14 played this on GBA! LOVE IT!!
I totally forgot about
Pac-Mania. I used to love playing it on the genesis especially with the arcade stick.
While the OG PacMan is my all time favorite, I really dig Pac Mania. I think I like it because it's challenging. Great review, man!!
I'm so glad this includes Pac n Roll Remix! I played the original Pac n Roll on the DS and Remix on the Wii back in the day and I definitely have a soft spot for it. And of course Pac-Man Arrangement is an old favorite of mine too. I'm also glad 256 was included because I'd never played it before and I ended up liking it a lot. Decorating the arcade is a lot of fun but I wish there was more than one floor choice d:
Just got this on PC, I'm suitably impressed with the collection.
I appreciate the honorable mentions for your well doings at the end of the match...👍🏼💯✔️ It's important to know your accomplishments, even if it isn't a victory...👌🏼
It's important to note that Pac Land is probably the first side scrolling platformer! Before Super Mario Bros by a year.
Having a lot of fun with this and really enjoying ALL the games. You still can’t beat the original but there is fun to be had with all of them. I love Pacman Championship Edition as it has the base mechanics and those combos are very satisfying. Battle Royale is awesome with 4 people around. Pac-Man 256 didn’t do much for me on devices with the whole swiping business. I overlooked it but it is actually awesome and a really present surprise. Add 4 players to the mix and wow - great game and glad they included it. Motos and the roll are also really fun. I even like Pac-Man in Time which is Fury of the Furries from the Amiga days. I did end up getting stuck in the end which was when the frustration you mentioned kicked in. I may end up agreeing with you with more play but it is fun zipping around on the grappling hook thing. The difficult bit is trying to jump up levels with it. Motos and the roll game are also better than I expected and fun to play. Arrangement is good but takes time to learn so it isn’t as pick up and play. I used to like Pacmania because you couldn’t get trapped but it does seem to run very slow. I am not sure if it was always like that or once you go back to it after the manic Pac-Man Championship Edition 2 it just seems that way. Pac-Mania is maybe a fun game that hasn’t aged as well as the others. I am with you and like Super Pac-Man and Pac N Pal is really good too but like Arrangement isn’t as accessible and takes some practice. Playing around with the arcade is also good fun. Yes, just wish it Ms Pac-Man and Jr. Pacman but if those aren’t possible, this is close to perfect and an essential purchase for any Pacman fan. Good video and interesting thoughts on each game.
I love pacman arrangement for gba such a good game imo surprised it didn’t hit for you bc when I first played it I was blown away with how much it felt like a true sequel. Also not sure but I felt like pacmania felt slower than usual with this emulation but could be wrong. Good vid!
Blinded by nostalgia sadly.
Arrangement is a great game, I loved it on the GBA, about pacmania, the game starts slow but gets crazy fast with the stages, sadly once you die and start over it feels like moving on molasses
Arrangement and Pacmania are great
Bruv, that hat is absolutely flaming FANTASTIC! Seriously top notch gear, mate! Pac-Land was one of the 6 games I had for the Atari Lynx back in the day, and I definitely found it difficult, but for some reason the challenge really grabbed my attention and I had to see it through!
I didn't know about this collection, thanks for the video and letting me know that it exists, I've just bought it and am looking forward to playing it.
I really enjoy your videos and appreciate you making them. I am actually old enough as well to remember when Pac-Man came out and I instantly fell in love.
I am glad you mentioned the controls on this video because I really wish there was a way to have a regular Atari style joystick with the Switch. I feel old when I say that to people but to me there’s nothing like that feel in an arcade cabinet. Or at least a way to customize the controls on the Switch. I love Pac-Man 99 and I was so very very happy when I realized I could make changes to the controls and be able to use the right joycon joystick to play the game; it makes such a difference to me. I love love Super Pac-Man and not being able to make the same kind of change to the controls when playing on this Switch version really frustrates me. I do love this release overall and I hope more games can be added/bought later or there’s a sequel.
Thank you for your videos and for letting me vent.
Arrangement arcade is amazing. A C for that is so off. I mean, I agree it's Pac Man 2. How is that not an endorsement? The console version is slow and punched in an just... worse. Not the same at all. Pac in Time is a much worse version of Fury of the Furries, but I don't know if bad FotF is an F. The only reason Pac Man CE could be lower than an S is if they had added CE DX+. Since they didn't, CE is by default the best game in this bundle. But yeah, go get CE DX and maybe CE2 from Steam along with this, it feels incomplete without them. Oh, and 256 is the second best game here, maybe tied with Arrange and should have been an A.
With Pacmania, I think the "issue" that we have is that it's traditional PacMan style but you can't see the whole level. Just feels like something is missing during gameplay.
I would have been sold on this if they had bought the rights to Ms. Pac-Man and Pac-Man Jr. Also the version of Pac&Pal I played at the local arcade BITD was Pac-Man & Chomp Chomp, featuring his pet dog from the cartoon.
3:08 Sorry to break this news but that not Ms.Pac-Man not any more as Namco is replacing her with Pac-Mom after the Namco-AtGames Ms.Pac-Man rights lawsuit this is maybe why we're never going to get a DLC of Ms.Pac-Man on the Pac-Man Museum+
RIP Ms.Pac-Man😔
4 of these pacman games I used to play these on my Gameboy Advance SP when I was a child and to see them here in this collection makes me happy, im definitely gonna pick this up 💖👍
Awesome games. Stoked your coming to Phoenix man! I'm pretty poor but I can't wait to at least stop by and say hi! Don't ever stop dude!
I’m enjoying this collection. I think being able to rotate the display would be nice (tate mode) and hopefully there is dlc because pac man world and PacMan CE DX should be in here
I wish the genesis version of Pac-Mania was on here the crazy mode is so fun
In Super Pac-Man, I always thought green pellet=giant Pac-Man and only recently learned it was supposed to represent him flying closer to the "camera", so he's flying over the gates and ghosts
Pac and roll is a lot of fun, ive been playing it for days
Thank you for posting this. Pac IN Time looks a bit like a Sonic the Hedgehog game. Like I can imagine Sonic showing up and saying Hey What's with this Yellow Guy? 😆 🤣
Just bought this and was super surprised by how much fun 256 is! Crazy how much variety you can get out of such a simple game.
I do wish they included the Ms. Pac games!
Actually Pac-In-Time Did Also Came Out In Japan, North America And Europe 4:44
It Also Came Out On Game Gear, Super Game Boy, DOS And MS-DOS
Pacman championship edition is so fun. Love a good pick up and play game and that's one of my favorites
Love Pac*Land!! Is Pac-Man in a pimp hat on that game? Lol
Great vid as always!
I’d like to see a Pac-Man World trilogy collection on modern consoles, including Nintendo Switch. Though they would have to alter the models for Ms Pac-Man to replace her with “Pac-Mom”.
Namco is so fuckin’ petty it’s absurd.
Great video. I played it games pass day one and had some fun with it. How many times did you say Pac-Man in this video?
Pacmania gets fast. It’s the most sequel to the original for me with the jumping. The only flaw is that when it gets fast, Pac-Man spends so long in the air it’s hard to judge when you might land. But it’s a very pure and meaningful iteration of the core formula. I give it an S - I can’t get enough of it.
Fun fact, A Pac in Time is a port of Fury of the Furries on Amiga. Not an angry mob of teenagers at a convention who can’t get wifi on their phones.
Aw, Pac in Time is why I'm buying this collection. It's really fun when you get in the flow of the game.
Did you know it was an Amiga game originally called Fury of the Furries?
@@iwanttocomplain yes I did, loved that too.
Pac-Man Arrangement (Arcade) is easily my favorite Pac-Man game ever.
I’ve been searching for CHAMPIONSHIP EDITION ever since I last played it on the iphone. Yes!
Fun fact: Pac'n Roll *was* originally a DS game!
You used the stylus like a trackball, and I personally find it way more responsive that way.
Even back in the day, in the arcade, I thought Pacman was boring as heck.
Agree %100 about Pac-Man Battle Royale. I bought this collection specifically for Battle Royale, as it was always my favorite game to play with friends and strangers alike at QuarterWorld in Portland, OR. I would probably spend another $20+ on a fully fleshed out remake or remaster of it with online support, bot support, new mazes, etc.
I liked the pac man collection I had on GBA. Played it with my mom a lot. I enjoyed the Lego looking one
I used to like the Lego one too
Super Pac Man was a little before my time. But I remember coming across the arcade versions once in a while.
I just downloaded this while I’m making dinner and my daughter is having a blast with it 😭 I can’t wait to play around with it
? If your daughter is having a blast playing it, why do you have a crying emoji 😭 in your message?? 🤔😃
@@DkViking1 Because her daughter is having all the fun and she isn't :D
@@DkViking1 it’s a crying laughing emoji lol people use it all the time
@@FilippoCardoni I’m a man Lmaoooo
@@watcherdev I thought this emoji 😂 was the only crying laughing emoji. 😄
This 😭 doesn't show any happy tears to me, but when I do Google it, it says that when girls use 😭 it can show both happiness and sadness. 🎭
I'd say the biggest problem with this collection is having to spend the coins to play about half of the games. I don't mind spending the coins on the stores to buy the little trinkets, and I get replicating the arcade experience, but it just gets in the way.
You start with 500 coins and you earn essentially any coins you spend on a game right back just by playing it. It's fine!
Best way to coin mine is to play Pac Man 256 for any length of time. You'll get tons without a lot of effort.
Nice review I think I’m gonna buy it for the switche
After playing this I realized that I love Pac and Pal (though it would be even better if the cards were randomized). And especially I love the little green monster friend Miru... I'd love to get a plush toy of her!
nice review
I feel so shamed of myself lol. I was an 80's kid and I had no idea whatsoever there were THIS many different pacman games. I knew there were a handful, but I only knew about a half dozen or so at best, apparently lol. Some of these are the stinkers I knew but some of them look really good. My overall favorite version I knew about and always liked was the Super Nintendo version of Mr's Pac man, however I do really like the "new" (to those of us who grew up w/ pac man / mrs pac man on Atari 2600, everything after to us is "new" lol) is the championship edition. I too played a lot on ps3 and now it's on my ps4 also. Still rocking emulation version of super nes mrs. pacman when I really feeling like playing, the new version there is pretty fun with the bright cool colors that would have knocked our socks off back in the 80's if we could have seen that coming, us 80's kids would have been right beside ourselves, let me tell ya lol. Loads of cool looking editions in there, I never knew about.
"Arrangement" "pac modos" "pac and roll" "battle royale" and "256" especially, really interest me. Those are all great looking pac man games.
they are great fun games, Arrangement and Pac N Roll Remix are personally my favorites of the collection
The only Pac-man I had growing up was pacmania on the c16plus4, it looked just like the original pac-man only it was hard as nails, i'd be lucky to get past about 4 levels. It had these H blocks, which stood for hyper jump which transported you to a different part of the screen, which sometimes you could land right in front of a ghost, which by the way moved faster than pac-man.
Was never big into Pac Man, but Championship Edition (don't remember if original or DX) was the only PS3 game I got all the trophies for.
I swear the one great pacman game that is always slept is mspacman maze madness. That needs to be ported to modern consoles
Pac-Man Arrangement: Console Version was my favorite, closely followed by Pac-Man 256! I think this collection is quite the mixed bag in terms of its content, and severe lack of options for customizing the games, but the games that are good are very good, and so it was worth my time.
I mainly got it for Championship Edition. It gets so intense as it gets faster. So fun.
Also am liking 256 for its relaxed pace.
Too bad there’s no Ms Pac-Man but there’s a licensing reason for why it’s not included.
Nice review.
PAC Motos is based on the arcade game Motos. Used to love the zx spectrum port of Motos back in the day if you've not played the arcade you should check it out.
I second the recommendation. The original is a lot harder than Pac-Motos.
Nice I'll have to look into it.
My absolute two favorite games here are Pac Man Arrangement (arcade ver.) and Pac-in-time
256 is S tier for me
solo or multiplayer
by far the one I will play the most
its incredible
Fun fact: Pac Motos is essentially a reskon of an older game by namco called Motos, that's where the sort of "bumper car" gameplays comes from!
Pac-Land (Arcade, not console versions) is by far my favorite.. never cared to much for the maze pacmans, except I do like Pacmania cuz it's a little different. Pac-Attack is cool. It's a clone of Cosmo Gang The Puzzle arcade game.
Should I get this since I have game pass? I only ask because I’ve seen people say controls sucked
Ordered the physical but hearing a lot about input lag now on all consoles? Is it really that prevalent?
9:01 That's because it IS a DS game! Pac N Roll Remix is an abridged remake/remaster of Pac N Roll (in similar vein to Spring Breeze from Kirby Super Star), which originally released on the DS with trackball controls.
My 8-year-old is absolutely in love with this, and we play Pacman 256 and Battle Royale together when I'm free to do so.
Hey bud 👋🤠 thanks for sharing... 👍🏼
I like how the bezel screens are also a part of the game. The best Pacman game is Super Pacman.
I do not approve of the Pacman Arrangement slander here... skimming over the 5th ghost and his gimmicks is a massive shame because he alone is a game changer and adds so much more strategy to the gameplay
Yeah, the game got the shaft in this video. Giving it the same rating as the shiny but lackluster PSP version confuses me.
Used to play Pac-Land all the time on arcade. For me this is worth that alone. The others are bonus
That one guy that is obsessed with pac man must be so happy
Great video as usual! when’s the next Whatnot auction?
Was even thinking about tonight but if not tonight, very soon (tomorrow maybe) I have a lot I need to go through.
@@JohnRiggs Sounds good can’t wait!
"Marble Madness on crack" LOL
I wish Pac-Man adventure from sega genesis made it on here. That was one of my favorite games of all time. Being able to shoot stuff with the slingshot was a lot of fun back in the day
I was hoping this collection had Pac-Mania! That was my favorite mini-game in Pac-Man World 2!
I used to play pac motos a lot on the Nampo mega mix for the wii back in the day
Fun collection, like it
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I ranked Pac-Man ports on systems like Atari 2600, NES and more.
in Pac and Pal, you get more points if you don't let the green ghost take the item into the cage
So glad they included Miru instead of the dog, it never made sense for it to be a dog-
Pac Man Championship is S tier in my book. Bummed they didn’t include the 8-bit demake that was created for one of the other zillion collections Namco put out.
Probably small chance that they would later put it in for DLC. They wouldn't really have an excuse to put it in and even if they did, it would look out of place put next to the original (not the demake).
Pac In Time did come out in the US. I remember renting it from Hollywood video.
Pac-Man made an appearance in an arcade game called kick Man. they should have included that except the game used a trackball. you can still play it with a joystick though.
I learned about this collection a few days ago. Busy with another game right now but I intend to grab it on Steam before the "Month 1 Edition" disappears. Not because I have any real interest in any of the titles in the collection, but more because Pac-Man is a (small) part of my arcade-going childhood and, just like with Sol Cresta, I sort of owe it to the creators to support them when they drag out old properties for us like this.
That said, I held the worldwide top scores in Pac-Man CE DX (across all platforms) back when it was current, so my interest in Pac-Man software isn't strictly skin deep. This collection includes the prequel to said game, Pac-Man CE, which I also played but didn't enjoy nearly as much because its gameplay mechanics were too brutal and unforgiving. With CE DX, they found the perfect balance, and it remains the very best Pac-Man game ever conceived. They squandered this balance with CE DX 2, making a major component of the gameplay far too random to recapture the magic of its predecessor.
If this collection maintains high score tables for any of its titles, I've already learned not to place any faith whatsoever in Namco-Bandai when it comes to sniping cheaters and hackers. They do not care. No matter how easy it would be to prevent it. Hackers will hack and Namco will totally ignore it. It's a shame.
I agree, CE DX is perfect. Maybe they’ll rebalance and redesign CE2 into a CE2 DX as well
@@darkridearts Yah I do keep an eye out for a hypothetical CE2 DX, but I think they sort of shot themselves in the foot. They made each successive game more casual, but CE2 was just too casual and missed the point. So I bet sales weren't super duper for that one. It's an even bigger shame because as far as the soundtracks went, well those just kept getting better and better and CE2 has the best of them all. I'd love to hear more from that composer.
I did pick up Pac-Man Museum+ and give it a brief spin. My verdict: It's most likely emulating the games (or at least Pac-Man, since that's the one I checked out), which is good, because it means the little challenges they set up are actually legit. Unfortunately, the sound is not being emulated. Instead, everything you hear is pre-recorded digital samples being played at appropriate moments. The reason I was able to determine this is because the result is very off. Maybe even less faithful than the similar effort on the Nintendo DS. The siren sound and power-up sound are both looped samples and you can actually hear where they loop. MAME has gotten this right for 25 years so it's kinda something I can't really forgive Namco for.
I wish they would rerelease the Sega version of Ms Pac-Man with the strange levels. My Favorite in the series.
I remember there was strange, mini, arcade, and large (something like that)
@@graced1338 exactly! I still have it on my genesis but would love to play it on a current gen console.
@@xboxnameQuest04 I would love that myself. Plus I miss that boost button so badly.
The One That Started It All! The Original Pac-Man! My Very First Video Game I Played Back In 1982 In Coney Island When I Was 4 Years Old!!!! My Mom Taught Me How To Play And When I Got My First Atari 2600 I Played For Hours And Hours!!! Good Times!!!
Top man, Riggs.
Pac-Mania and Pac-Man 256 are my faves. Wish they had Ms. Pac-Man tho😢🥺thanks Atgames
I’ve been a gamer since the original Pac-Man. I almost have to buy this just to keep my identity as a gamer. I have multiple ways of playing most of these but it’s nice to have them all in one.
No Ms Pacman is a deal breaker for me
No DX version of championship edition as well does not help
I'm questioning that B rating for Championship Edition John Riggs 😠 🤣
PAC in Time seems like a mix of Sonic and Kirby.