Man, it didn't occur to me that something as simple as limiting the player's FOV can make Pacman scary. The ghosts could jump out at you from behind any corner.
I think that this game is probably the best example of .exe-type game. It's "glitched" in just the right proportion - no hyprerelistick blod!!!!, no "dead children spirits", only glitched sprites and music, something that looks like it COULD happen to a game and that's what makes it scary - realism. Also, the dead silence instead of some cheap jumpscares or Pac-Man exploding into bloody bits is a lot more scarier, however surprising it sounds for all young horror game developers. The FOV concept isn't new, but fits the game perfectly with it's one-wide corridors and enemies popping in and out. The enemies are fine and pretty creepy too, especially the red-train-of-spook-one, even though Slendy is a little bit too intrusive, IMO. Overall, that's what horror game makers, especially "haunted software"-like, should strive for - simple, but refined, realistic, but not hyper-realistic, thought-out and not "i want all the scary shit in my game and also it should have real life murder lore". Signing off, your own little game journalist that, of course, haven't played the game himself.
Lockheed honestly i think the jumpscare was pretty good. its not overused/overdone so you dont expect it and the game’s setting and atmosphere fits it well. this is a jumpscare done right
This whole game is perfectly unnerving. The music being nonexistent, just the noises of PAC-Man moving, the maze cubes distorting, when you die just being touched by the ghosts and returning to the start, Blindy and Screamy’s faces, the subtle idea that the ghosts are souls trapped in the game, or that the game is soul-consuming, it’s never too obvious, it’s never too visceral, it’s just...off...and scary.
genuinely also just good game design clyde could appear at the end of a very long corridor and you wouldn't be looking until it's too late, but that detail helps alert you
The way that the map deteriorates as you progress is extremely cool. It leaves you to wander aimlessly and follow the lit paths in front of you ehile you're constantly on edge.
Think some parts might be easier because in the original game, the ghosts would chase you around the map(well except the orange one who would go around randomly)
@Whited Out all the ghost have certain things thy do and if i remember correctly red chases, orange wanders randomly pink tries to cut you off and i forget what blue does
@@soggeysandwhich7520 there's no jumpscare, he is telling that you get scared without a earrape jumpscare, just need to fit the ambience, and the silence can be your worst nightmare
I admire this game for being unlike most "haunted" ROMs, and not relying on screamers or creepy image flashes to scare the player. It throws you right into this unsettling experience, and lets the anxiety come naturally. It doesn't try to force it, and because it's an actual game and not the product of some edgy 13-year-old's emo phase, it's easy to get immersed in this experience. I like the "something's not quite right" approach to horror as opposed to the "OOH LOOK AT ME I'M SO SPOOKY AAAAAAAAHHHH THAT'S A SPOOKY SCREAM SOMETHING SOMETHING JUMPSCARE!!" approach. It feels less juvenile, and actually makes for great horror due to its closeness to real life. If something's messed up, no matter how bad it is, it never immediately jumps out at you. You have to search and uncover the horror yourself, and, even then, the answers aren't always easily found. That's why these other "haunted" ROMs fail. They throw so much "spooky" shit at you, that you become numb to it, and end up not being as immersed as you need to be. All you're doing is waiting for the damn thing to end so you can get on with your day. So, to conclude this lengthy comment, kudos to the game dev!! If I could hug you for making an actually decent haunted game for once, I would.
Blindy: Aimlessly wanders around the maze, hoping it runs into Pac-Man by random luck. Screamy: Also wanders around but will rush towards Pac-Man once he’s in sight, occasionally glitches into ’normal’ sprite. Slendy: Behavior is similar to Slender Man, randomly appears in front of Pac-Man, turn away from it to survive, will not appear when using power pellet. Old One: Will slowly follow Pac-Man through the map, ignores walls and cannot appear when power pellet is used. ???????: The map begins to disappear making it harder to find the pellets. RUN: Shadow version of Pac-Man, follows exact movements and gets faster, eventually reaching Pac-Man. Causes player to go into a first-person version where the game finally ends when it catches Pac-Man.
Actually, ??????? can kill Pac-Man if he approaches the spot he flashed into view for a few seconds. You can see him at 7:43 , and he's green too. You also see what happens to Pac-Man when he gets killed by it at 7:51
Wow, thats.. a very creative concept. The concept of not being able to see anything is actually pretty creative. The ghost concepts are also pretty cool. Then heres the slendy part. I like how it becomes quiet, no sound, just quiet. The ending was very interesting, and confusing. Who is shadow pacman? Why were you sent into the 3d maze? Did you become Blindy, since you cant see anything?
BossBot5000 it’s because the behavior of blindly is aimlessly roaming around as if their blind since their always going in (most times) circles in the top left corner
With the white ghost and the fact that you cannot see everything else besides your lane makes it really hard. Also that orange ghost tho, standing around like no one's business
The orange ghost could actually kill you if you stay long enough facing towards him without evwn getting close, every ghost has its own unique behaviours
Orange ghost: hey there you mind if i stand here? No good. Pacman turns left Ghost: i think i like this spot better. Pacman turns left again and crashes into the ghost. Ghost: ... you need to be more mindful of your surroundings.
Realistic blood, scary images and jumpscares aren't 'true' horror, just a cheap way to trigger a natural reflex. REAL horror games can make you feel something is wrong, and unsettled, not just 'ah loud noise'
Therapist: “So what are you afraid of?” Me: “ghosts.” Therapist: “spirits of the dead? Like in 13 ghosts? Or demons in The Exorcist?” Me: “much worse. PAC-man ghosts.” Therapist: “.... what?”
Therapist: hrmm... you mean THIS? *holding a pic of a normal blinky* You: no... *reaches into pocket revealing the screwed up ghosts* Therapist: OH GOD!
@@LocalGoober10 therapist: well... then... I see. Here, maybe we could help you with exposure. you: ;-; okey... *the next day* Therapist: alright, so you were the guy who was afraid of the creepy video game ghosts. you: yeah, that was me. therapist: okay so I've found a pac man website so we can play it for free. (boots up website) *the game is haunted like the video* therapist: what the hell? you: NONONONOOONNNUHB
The ghosts? At first, yes. Then I became a bit scarred by that squid with the ability to go through walls. Then I saw the iron Pac-Man and I jumped. Now that I saw what happened when he ate the power pellet, I think I need to call the asylum down the road here to book a dagumm room.
Whoever designed this game clearly has a VERY clear understanding of what makes something truly unnerving, even if it’s not all in your face. Everything down to the visuals, audio, and gameplay mechanics are genuinely freaky as hell and this guy or girl deserves insane amounts of praise
Finally, a scary version of a classic video game that actually uses a spooky ambience, and not random jumpsca- **Extremely loud 8-bit sounds play** .... and there goes my hearing.
Dark Pac-Man copies your movements except that he gets faster, and in the last part what kills you is a yellow pacman so maybe what happens is you become dark Pac man and instead of yellow Pac-Man killing you it's actually you killing him.
Alejandro Gomez or that getting caught by Shadow Pac-Man turns you into a ghost inside the game, and the Pac-Man that the player killed at the end is another victim to a vicious cycle
I think shadow pacman is like a delayed response by a couple of seconds of where the player had already went Altho idk why shadow pacman started going saNIC FAST after yellow pacman got the special red dot thingy from the corner
To beat the level you have to leave the power pellets for last. Shadow Pacman doesn't get faster over time, he gets a big jump when you get a pellet and that jump stays. So while he's slow, build a lead, then go grab the pellets last.
Very creative. I like how that when that one ghost appears it gets 100% silent. Like youre holding your breath after just seeing a ghost irl. I love it
@Алкаш из Р'льеха Stop spamming that name. Like, that's not even how fear of unknown in lovecraft works. You don't fear when the octopus satan will suck your soul. You fear it because you don't fucking know what it is.
Old Man (Pink) was easily my least favorite. It just creeps around the maze, going through walls, and you never know it's coming until it's basically too late.
To anyone afraid of jump scares: (spoilers) Unless you count the red ghost's "chasing" sound these are the only ones i'd count 8:16 Blue ghost fills screen with shrill sound 9:32 Shadow Pac-Man fills the screen with glitchy effects and could probably be considered a jump scare 9:49 the player getting "eaten" in the FPS section probably counts my thoughts: credit to the dev for actually making unique mechanics instead of just "IS SCARY, FLASHING SCARY IMAGES AND SHRILL NOISES" kinda curious if it's possible to beat the Shadow Pac-Man level, probably not but worth thinking about
every horror game creator ever: but what if i took [name of character]... and i gave [name of character] bloody eyes??!?!?!!? and the game's name is... [NAME OF CHARACTER].EXE OMG IM SO CREATIVE LOOK GUUYS I MAED HOROR GAEM
edfreak9001 Either people are downvoting your comment to kingdom come, or your comment's target audience is made of me and, like, no more than sixty other people or so.
@@alessandrobozzi7085 you cant downvote comments, by the way. it broke when Google+ came and disliking comments still wont work. its broken, it does nothing.
@@alessandrobozzi7085 considering that the thumbs down button is a placebo that does nothing anymore (as far as I know) i'm gonna go with "This is a niche thing for an already niche video"
My interpretation of the end. Shadow Pac-Man is the game’s way of bringing new souls into the game. When shadow Pac-Man is chasing you, the points and lives on the left of the screen say RUN. Could this be the spirits communicating to the player to prevent you from having the same fate as them? When you get caught, the game glitches out and ghost sprites appear. I have always seen these (in this game) the lost souls showing themselves before your soul gets taken. Your soul then gets transferred into the game. And now you are a ghost, playing a game of infinite Pac-Man for all of eternity... Props to the game dev for making this game.
ChefUTG3 Shadow Pac-Man’s A.I only chases you after a certain amount of time has passed (he didn’t chase the player when he picked up the first big pellet) I’m guessing that lvl6 is unbeatable as Shadow Pac-Man knows where you are at all times. Your soul is pretty much forfeit when you reach that stage.
ChefUTG3 That is an interesting thought, I’m guessing evil soul-stealing ghouls can adapt. There’s no saying that the games code prevents the entity from interacting with it.
@@NeoMetallix stop with that bullshit, pink is not gray, "old one" nickname for the Pink ghost came out before u were born and cthulhu is an octopus so it looks like an octopus here
@@NeoMetallix the OP literally said himself "old one" is the name of Pink ghost genius, what crack did u smoke to not realize it. second, yes they all look like octopuses but the Pink one is the one that looks almost identical to one compared to the other ones dumbass LOL. third, no problem using abbreviation of u for you. fourth, I am not a weeaboo, I am just japanese, but I will not blame u for ur assumption of me being a weeb as the internet is filled with those locusts
I notice some stuff: The "Insert Coin" changes to "Insert Soul" The word "Score" changes to "Dread" The word "Lives" changes to "Death" The word "Level" changes to "Ghost" The Score Number changes to "66666" The Level Number indicates how many Ghosts are in the Level The Level Number change to "Blindy", "Screamy", "Slendy", "Old one", "???????", "Run"
There are never more than four ghosts, just like in normal Pac-Man. So the numbers really are still just the level numbers. But the first four levels tell you the names of the ghosts that are introduced in those levels.
I agree with UghZan11's comment, this is the best example of a .exe-type game. Just as he says, it's glitched in the right proportion and in a way that seems like it could actually happen to the game. This ROM hack is very clever, this deserves more attention.
Blindly: wanders aimlessly, When you're near him, He can sense you. Screamy: When you're in his line of sight, He'll dash fast to you. Slendy:(Only appears when power pellet isn't used) He can't move, but will slow you down when you see him. Old One:(Only appears when power pellet isn't used) She can go through walls. ?????: He'll make almost all the walls invisible, so the ghosts can catch you easily. R U N: He's super fast than Pacman, Almost Impossible to Escape from him.
So my clock was making noises (not ticking, more like gears rattling) and I thought it's just from this video. And it scared the hell out of me when it continued rattling even though the video ended.
the ending of the tune disturbs me every time there's just something really disturbing about the music getting louder like something is getting closer and closer
Nah mate, I fear that the youngsters will be haunted for life I mean like, they don't really expect anything and you scare them by switching the arcades
There are several 1st person Pac-Man games. The first one I've ever played is simply called FPS-Man. There's also one Markiplier played that I can't remember the name of, it's in one of his "3 scary games" videos. Then there's that Dark Deception everyone is talking about, but it isn't really pac-man related, just a similar type of game.
Blindy seems to act like a normal pacman ghost, just a bit more visually creepy. Screamy seems to stay in one place for 2 ish seconds? than move for around 2 seconds. Slendy seems to blink around sorta randomly. The Old One seems to just chase you, ignoring walls. Huh.
All the original ghosts behaved differently, with the red one actively following you, the blue one trying to avoid you, the pink one going in loops, trying to catch you off guard, with the orange one just wandering around. Here, Blindy wanders around blindly (hence the name). Screamy charges at you screaming (if he sees you). Slendy teleports in front of you. And The Old One does exactly as you said it does.
Shadow Pac-Man copies your moves, but very fast. I guess he’s just dragging out the player’s death, but perhaps if you go fast enough and smart enough you can win?
Level 1: Blue Ghost Level 2: Red Ghost (had madness) Level 3: Orange Ghost (when you get back here, he spawn) Level 4: Pink Ghost (can walk through wall) Level 5: Madness (if you died 3 times, wall's gone) Level 6: Ghost gone, now with Evil twin (if you eat x-ray 2 times, evil twins will be fast)
Blue ghost: Blindy[Wanders aimlessy] Red Ghost: Screamy[Charges at you once it sees you] Orange ghost: Slendy[Appears randomly in front of you] Pink Ghost: Old One[Walks through walls] Level 5:[WALLS DISSAPEAR] Evil Twin:Shadow Pacman:RUN[Gets faster with every big dot/x ray eaten]
Never thought id be scared of a game my parents grew up with (well without the hack of course) thanks for liking bois, girls and toddlers on their moms phone for almost 300 likes
The ghosts and ambience : We're slowly getting scarier and scarier trough different strategies, and by using a "cursed arcade" theme. The starting music : haha earrape go brrr
@@sud1881 it’s all about expectation. we already know what the pac-man intro sounds like, so when the speed and volume glitch it can make it really eerie. it’s like a musical uncanny valley
I love how subtle this game is. Most exe games are quite loud and "in your face", like the false jumpscares in a modern horror films. This game let's your anticipation and anxiety do the work, using it's quiet off-putting tone and constantly shifting/vanishing graphics.
nope, no is not I have seen a lot of Pac-man ''horror'' games in first person and believe me they are bad as heck I'm not saying that every Pac-man horror game in first person is bad but there's a lot that are bad
@@coolcake5560 it flashes like that on all levels. btw if you look on the level numbers, you'll see the new names of the ghosts. Blindy, Screamy, Slendy, Old one. And ???????.
It is a very cool creepypasta game yeah, and one of the few .exe games that is actually a game and not a glorified bad cinematic with 'gameplay' elements
"...and then sans had hyperrelaistic blod and he was actually in ur room irl!!!!!!" i hate those stupid [INSERT GAME OR OTHER MEDIA INSTANCE NAME HERE].EXE games. theyre always "LOK THEY HAVE BLOOD EYES AND THEY KIL U WEN U SLEEP!!!!!!"
If you look carefully stuff like Score and Lives are replaced by the word "Ghost" edit: Level "4" sometimes replaces 4 with Old One. Level 5 replaces Lives with "Death". edit2: almost at the end of Level 5, 5 is replaced with 999999 edit:4 Level 6 replaces 6 with "Run"
Robo wow i didn’t see this way. That’s explain my theory about ShadowPac. If you die you become a ghost, and to recover your life you must kill the other victim (other pac) to be free.
Other thing it’s ShadowPac, he hates the light, when you eat the Light-Pac-Dots he feels very mad. In 2019 nobody got complete the stage 6 without be captured?
Honestly, I found orange’s sudden silence mechanic to be oddly relaxing. The immediate thing that reminded me of this is when rain starts to fall especially hard for a second and kind of drowns out everything else.
What I love about this game is that it's your typical "haunted by a ghost" game, but it's not in your face (Except for that last bit, lol). It doesn't have text telling how children have died, or displays large amounts of gore. It creates horror with clever mechanics and atmosphere. It shows and makes the player feel the fear, it doesn't tell you why you should be scared. You feel the claustrophobia, the fear of being lost and that your death might be lurking at the turn of the corner. You crave for one large pill to ease the anxiety allowing you to know what's around you, feel safe for a bit just to turn off the lights a few moments later. Then in the end, you get caught by shadow Pacman, the game glitches and now you're a trapped soul in the game, you're more confused and disoriented than before, but because of the change of perspective the game now feels kinda more natural, because we it's a first perspective view we get all the information possible we could get from this point of view, in contrast to the bird eye view which should give us the most but is highly obscure, causing that feeling of unease. In the end we see what we need to see, we're now part of the game trapped to repeat the cycle for the rest of eternity. It's as much of a typical ghost story as every other game, but one that's masterfully done.
I remember reading the “hey this game exists” post on tumblr from the creator! I was never gonna play the game because I don’t handle playing spooky games well, but I’m super glad I got to see what this game was about!!
I like this kind of horror, it doesnt necesarily bring something on the lines of abstract surrealism but right on the lines of taking something familiar and well known and making act odd and out of place which adds to the sense of dread and anxiety. The semi distorted pacman theme in the start set the tone for the entire game and that anxiety never left or faded unless you really look deep into it and see the seams of the horror behind it which until that point loses the anxiety and dread aspect since you know what is going on already. Rather creative and it sort of similar to how Sonic.exe was when people started knowing about it back then though IMO the dread and discomfort of the atmosphere Sonic.exe had was short lived as it went too over the top too fast which instead made it more silly once you played it long enough. This though is a lot more creative and a lot more subtle which i like very much. The way the whole game screen curves as if its playing on a CRT monitor of the original pacman arcade cabinet is a nice touch
My anxiety has never been this high in a long time.. The sound of the dots being eaten, and that “wee-woo” noise is so nerve racking.. I also had to stop watching it when it started to glitch and everything
Achievement Unlocked: *MY EYES!!* get nae nae’d by Blindy. Noob. Achievement Unlocked: *Banshee* get nae nae’d by Screamy. Achievement Unlocked: *How many times we gotta teach you this lesson, old man?!* get nae nae’d by The Old One. Achievement Unlocked: *DOOD HES HACKING* get nae nae’d by Slendy.
I feel like this version is much harder than the normal because of these 3: 1. Limited Field of Vision 2. New A.l 3. Sound that would scare normal gamers
Probably one of the best indie horror games I've seen on this channel. Nothing explicit, nothing feels cheap and lazy. Simple, but solid scare tactics that work to turn a fun time waster into something legit spooky.
Man, it didn't occur to me that something as simple as limiting the player's FOV can make Pacman scary. The ghosts could jump out at you from behind any corner.
That, and the fact that the ghost behave kinda scary now
i think it's a really cool mechanic
What is an fov?
There's 1k
@Jarhead you foolish human! Giving an opinion on the internet is illegal!!!!
If you slow the video down, you can read the words that flash glitch onto the screen.
"Insert Soul"
Score glitches into "DREAD" towards the end
Level into ghost
And lives into death
The score number turns into sixes
and the pacman icons turn red
Pac-man ghosts actually behaving like ghosts, clever.
Yea, just like real, actual ghosts
@@gulleyfoyle6859 True
@@GodzillaGamerITA Kaiju don't exist
@@GodzillaGamerITA bruh..
@@GodzillaGamerITA Lmao. He said that because Godzilla (The one you use as a profile picture) is a kaiju.
Honestly, only being able to see pellets and ghosts down where PacMan himself can see them is a pretty creative difficulty curve.
Yeah, I thought the same! There's a lot to make this game great, but this was a great jumping off point, design-wise
I also like how they removed parts of the maze walls. Feels like an improvement at first until you realize it's harder to find the pellets.
@@Robin-en4xs what parts were removed?
@@sud1881 the maze walls. Like the blue thing.
If NAMCO made a Pacman VR, that would be an awesome experience.
Love how the fact that it took the “ghosts behave differently!” To get me to click.
Cool game tho.
Ikr
…mate that’s just clickbate
@@pelziig Well, the video did bring what it said
Blueleon well then look at pinky she’s going through WALLS
Pelzig no it’s not
I think that this game is probably the best example of .exe-type game. It's "glitched" in just the right proportion - no hyprerelistick blod!!!!, no "dead children spirits", only glitched sprites and music, something that looks like it COULD happen to a game and that's what makes it scary - realism. Also, the dead silence instead of some cheap jumpscares or Pac-Man exploding into bloody bits is a lot more scarier, however surprising it sounds for all young horror game developers. The FOV concept isn't new, but fits the game perfectly with it's one-wide corridors and enemies popping in and out. The enemies are fine and pretty creepy too, especially the red-train-of-spook-one, even though Slendy is a little bit too intrusive, IMO. Overall, that's what horror game makers, especially "haunted software"-like, should strive for - simple, but refined, realistic, but not hyper-realistic, thought-out and not "i want all the scary shit in my game and also it should have real life murder lore".
Signing off, your own little game journalist that, of course, haven't played the game himself.
Yeah, i hate those people that only makes a bloody eye sonic sprite, adds blood everywhere and BAM, sOnIc.ExE
I was just scrolling down to get a jumpscare list. I'm pleasantly surprised to see this awesome comment!
I know...jumpscares are by definition a cheap trick to build up the tension...
Lockheed honestly i think the jumpscare was pretty good. its not overused/overdone so you dont expect it and the game’s setting and atmosphere fits it well. this is a jumpscare done right
If the game can’t effect the player, it’s a shit Creepypasta.
friend: what you playing?
me: PacM̬̦̩̹̌͢a̪͓̮̼͍̗͑̿ͫn̛̥͈ͅ
friend: ooh i love pacman
me: i said PacM̬̦̩̹̌͢a̪͓̮̼͍̗͑̿ͫn̛̥͈ͅ
Can you type like that on mobile?
@@Mitchi_27 yes, there's an app for that called "zalgo"
@@starbreak__ thank you!
How the fuck did you say that with your mouth
It's pronounced 'pac-m+#-$-*'##(*:#(an'
The detail of the sound cutting out when Orange ghost is in view is just perfectly unnerving.
Yea
This whole game is perfectly unnerving. The music being nonexistent, just the noises of PAC-Man moving, the maze cubes distorting, when you die just being touched by the ghosts and returning to the start, Blindy and Screamy’s faces, the subtle idea that the ghosts are souls trapped in the game, or that the game is soul-consuming, it’s never too obvious, it’s never too visceral, it’s just...off...and scary.
That's clyde
genuinely also just good game design
clyde could appear at the end of a very long corridor and you wouldn't be looking until it's too late, but that detail helps alert you
" Who's been putting disks in the coin slot? "
Nick Blackarrow lmaoo
"This isn't a f*cking joke, the darn pacman game went from weird ghosts to stealing the souls of anyone who dares play it"
Someone put a Chucky cheese token where a quarter is supposed to go.
“...Kids these days.”
Wait but the description said: **MONEY COINS AND OTHER COINS**
This game gives me anxiety just because of the little song not being right.
Your pfp gives me anxiety
@@thunderbee Good.
Ikr?
@@thunderbee Sike but sike.
@@tyroneblackmann Who the fuck changes their username in 5 hours
I remember reading the release notes for this game in early form. It read like an SCP experiment log, it was beautiful.
Lmao
o shit if somebody can write here an ACTUAL SCP DOCUMENT about this game it would be cool
Am going to wait.
Links or it didn't happen
@@memejohn86 it probably wouldn't
Reminds me of that Dorkly sketch:
*Pac-Man:* Did you go through the walls?!
*Blinky:* Uh, _duh,_ we're _ghosts._
*Pac-Man: (screams)*
You're right
Perfectly cut screams
The youtuber "Level up" rigth?
MisterVercetti ty for the nostalgia
Pacman:they cant get me!
Ghosts:were about to do whats called a pro gamer move
The way that the map deteriorates as you progress is extremely cool. It leaves you to wander aimlessly and follow the lit paths in front of you ehile you're constantly on edge.
Its trying to recreating that feeling you get when its dark in your house and you cant find the light switch.
@@damienfinnegan8272 And the ghosts are like Lego blocks you are desperately trying to avoid stepping on as you wander around the pitch black room.
@@damienfinnegan8272 or the dots are like you trying to make a map of what kind of shit your sister destroyed to make your way blocked
@@TreyDobe Exactly.
@@TreyDobe That would be the scariest shit I would've seen.
Honestly I'm more shook with this guy's skill than anything else. I can't even get this far in *regular* pac-man
Think some parts might be easier because in the original game, the ghosts would chase you around the map(well except the orange one who would go around randomly)
and have you seen this man play Eat Girl? fuckin godly reflexes man.
@@tuunaa damn, that's true dude, his skills are out of limit.
Edgard Tucson the man avoided Greg with ease.... how on earth does someone manage to have such good reflexes?
@Whited Out all the ghost have certain things thy do and if i remember correctly red chases, orange wanders randomly pink tries to cut you off and i forget what blue does
I like the convex shape like it's a cabinet screen
It could be reconfigured to be disabled as well
@@UCmDBecUtbSafffpMEN3iscA how thoughtful :)
Yay i was the 666th like
*888 likes*
Can you imagine making your own arcade cabinet with this game? Damn you could prank your friends with a cursed arcade cabinet.
You know the it's good horror when you get jumpscared by silence
Time stamp?
@@soggeysandwhich7520 there's no jumpscare, he is telling that you get scared without a earrape jumpscare, just need to fit the ambience, and the silence can be your worst nightmare
@@MysteriousNic he asked for a timestamp.
@@emerylsg there's no timestamp with a jumpscare bruh
@@soggeysandwhich7520 when orange appears
I admire this game for being unlike most "haunted" ROMs, and not relying on screamers or creepy image flashes to scare the player.
It throws you right into this unsettling experience, and lets the anxiety come naturally. It doesn't try to force it, and because it's an actual game and not the product of some edgy 13-year-old's emo phase, it's easy to get immersed in this experience.
I like the "something's not quite right" approach to horror as opposed to the "OOH LOOK AT ME I'M SO SPOOKY AAAAAAAAHHHH THAT'S A SPOOKY SCREAM SOMETHING SOMETHING JUMPSCARE!!" approach. It feels less juvenile, and actually makes for great horror due to its closeness to real life. If something's messed up, no matter how bad it is, it never immediately jumps out at you. You have to search and uncover the horror yourself, and, even then, the answers aren't always easily found.
That's why these other "haunted" ROMs fail. They throw so much "spooky" shit at you, that you become numb to it, and end up not being as immersed as you need to be. All you're doing is waiting for the damn thing to end so you can get on with your day.
So, to conclude this lengthy comment, kudos to the game dev!! If I could hug you for making an actually decent haunted game for once, I would.
This ROM has a few auditory and visual jumpscares here and there, tho. The trick is to not overuse them.
@@DeepFriedOddish Precisely.
8:18 Say what???
@@s0medude9163 as soon as i read this 8:18 appeared lmao
donald piper ok
Ghost: *touches Pacman*
Pacman: ...
Ghost: ...
Me: ...what now ?
*-then Pac-Man gets raped by ghost-* something crazy.
@@dlucky7s456 is your humor stuck in 6th grade?
@@khorkhi7107 probably
@@dlucky7s456 most likely
Are we just gonna ignore this person's pretty good Pac-Man skill?
Yes
Seems pretty average tbh.
Funny Letter E He’s such a pro he doesn’t see the ghosts and knows where they are anyways
tru dat
It involves memory and ai.
Blindy: Aimlessly wanders around the maze, hoping it runs into Pac-Man by random luck. Screamy: Also wanders around but will rush towards Pac-Man once he’s in sight, occasionally glitches into ’normal’ sprite. Slendy: Behavior is similar to Slender Man, randomly appears in front of Pac-Man, turn away from it to survive, will not appear when using power pellet. Old One: Will slowly follow Pac-Man through the map, ignores walls and cannot appear when power pellet is used. ???????: The map begins to disappear making it harder to find the pellets. RUN: Shadow version of Pac-Man, follows exact movements and gets faster, eventually reaching Pac-Man. Causes player to go into a first-person version where the game finally ends when it catches Pac-Man.
My favourite is blindy because Blindy just walks around aimlessly which makes him unpredictable
Haha, Blind
The game refers the 4th ghost as "Old O e", in a chance cuts of the leaderboard.
Actually, ??????? can kill Pac-Man if he approaches the spot he flashed into view for a few seconds. You can see him at 7:43 , and he's green too. You also see what happens to Pac-Man when he gets killed by it at 7:51
Wow, thats.. a very creative concept.
The concept of not being able to see anything is actually pretty creative. The ghost concepts are also pretty cool.
Then heres the slendy part. I like how it becomes quiet, no sound, just quiet.
The ending was very interesting, and confusing. Who is shadow pacman? Why were you sent into the 3d maze? Did you become Blindy, since you cant see anything?
Blinky*
@@jaxoncarter2electricboogal921 No, its Blindy. When the level starts, the level number tells you the ghost's name.
good1005 you are correct, i wonder why it’s named that in this rom...it was originally blinky in the OG Pac-Man game...hmmm
BossBot5000 it’s because the behavior of blindly is aimlessly roaming around as if their blind since their always going in (most times) circles in the top left corner
We need matpat
I love how you and the ghost just stare at each other when you’re caught like “uh... can you just... let me go?”
With the white ghost and the fact that you cannot see everything else besides your lane makes it really hard. Also that orange ghost tho, standing around like no one's business
The orange ghost could actually kill you if you stay long enough facing towards him without evwn getting close, every ghost has its own unique behaviours
The orange ghost is like sup man wanna play some video games
Orange ghost is like that one repetitive friend who invites you as soon as your online
Orange ghost: hey there you mind if i stand here? No good.
Pacman turns left
Ghost: i think i like this spot better.
Pacman turns left again and crashes into the ghost.
Ghost: ... you need to be more mindful of your surroundings.
The whole design of this game is artistically brilliant.
I kept forgetting it was a real game and not an animation
whats this, a spooky game that isn't just hyper-realistic blood and scary images?
Realistic blood, scary images and jumpscares aren't 'true' horror, just a cheap way to trigger a natural reflex. REAL horror games can make you feel something is wrong, and unsettled, not just 'ah loud noise'
Yes spy yes it a cheesy way to scare peeps
Boyd De Regt r/woooosh
Boyd De Regt r/woooosh
Ikr? I can't fap to this.
Me: oh, the first two don't seem that scary...
**Orange appears out of nowhere and cuts the sound out**
i liked that touch alot.
Nah red is the scariest. imagine a blood red ghostly mirage down a long corridor looking at you, and then it jolts toward you relentlessly
it's called Slendy here, i guess
What about the tendrils one that ignores walls?
@@Z95HeadHunter you mean Old One? it's kinda obvious that ghosts can go through the walls
Therapist: “So what are you afraid of?”
Me: “ghosts.”
Therapist: “spirits of the dead? Like in 13 ghosts? Or demons in The Exorcist?”
Me: “much worse. PAC-man ghosts.”
Therapist: “.... what?”
Therapist: hrmm... you mean THIS?
*holding a pic of a normal blinky*
You: no...
*reaches into pocket revealing the screwed up ghosts*
Therapist: OH GOD!
@@LocalGoober10
therapist: well... then... I see. Here, maybe we could help you with exposure.
you: ;-; okey...
*the next day*
Therapist: alright, so you were the guy who was afraid of the creepy video game ghosts.
you: yeah, that was me.
therapist: okay so I've found a pac man website so we can play it for free. (boots up website)
*the game is haunted like the video*
therapist: what the hell?
you: NONONONOOONNNUHB
Who?
@@raccoonboye5361
Screamy: This is for tempting fate.
The ghosts? At first, yes. Then I became a bit scarred by that squid with the ability to go through walls. Then I saw the iron Pac-Man and I jumped. Now that I saw what happened when he ate the power pellet, I think I need to call the asylum down the road here to book a dagumm room.
Whoever designed this game clearly has a VERY clear understanding of what makes something truly unnerving, even if it’s not all in your face. Everything down to the visuals, audio, and gameplay mechanics are genuinely freaky as hell and this guy or girl deserves insane amounts of praise
Finally, a scary version of a classic video game that actually uses a spooky ambience, and not random jumpsca-
**Extremely loud 8-bit sounds play**
.... and there goes my hearing.
#DeafByPacManClub
Hello there.
Atleast it acts like a glitch, music getting louder.
Why r u everywhere dude
Ar u Justin Y 2.0?
Dark Pac-Man copies your movements except that he gets faster, and in the last part what kills you is a yellow pacman so maybe what happens is you become dark Pac man and instead of yellow Pac-Man killing you it's actually you killing him.
Alejandro Gomez or that getting caught by Shadow Pac-Man turns you into a ghost inside the game, and the Pac-Man that the player killed at the end is another victim to a vicious cycle
@@ryancyanide1601 that chills. A lot.
Pacception
@@ryancyanide1601 OR you get turned into shadow packman and you try to get away from your own body.
Or The Game Just, Ye Know
*Breaks And Fucks Up*
I think shadow pacman is like a delayed response by a couple of seconds of where the player had already went
Altho idk why shadow pacman started going saNIC FAST after yellow pacman got the special red dot thingy from the corner
it could just be coded to speed up based on how much of the board is cleared with big pellets being big jumps in speed.
U mean power pellets
That's what they're called
To beat the level you have to leave the power pellets for last. Shadow Pacman doesn't get faster over time, he gets a big jump when you get a pellet and that jump stays. So while he's slow, build a lead, then go grab the pellets last.
Power pellets you uncultured swine
Imagine having this version of Pac-Man as a vr game
Jackson221787 imagine getting an Atari and it seems exactly like this?
Shut the frick up you two
oh naw
especially 9:36 doe
Indie devs: *starts taking notes*
just imagine getting this to run on an actual arcade cabinet, cause that would be everything
Then set it up in grimy icky yucky places, like a shitty bar, or a run-down walmart
@ElectriX good 1
kitzen
But the arcade cabinet wouldn’t have any paint or design on it.
It would be blank and only in a single color
I mean, you CAN
I can probably hack into the mainframe and do that. Brb gamers gonna go do that
“How to legally pour holy water on another persons property”
Simon the Why get gloves, put them on, do it and don’t get caught
I think you don’t even need an explanation for doing so
Very creative. I like how that when that one ghost appears it gets 100% silent. Like youre holding your breath after just seeing a ghost irl. I love it
What if you *inhale the ghost gas?*
@@zux128 what if you straight up hinale the ghost
@@jackieChannel. uhh, you get possessed?
Joaquin uwu
ghost vore
@@hecklife6636 LOL
This isn't fear.
This is terror.
Fear is things being in your face scaring you
Terror is not knowing what's coming
@@Max_Le_Groom Hatdog
@@bishhsasspusi2904
Hatdaggitydog
Not knowing what's coming, well... that's fear of the unknown
@Алкаш из Р'льеха
Stop spamming that name. Like, that's not even how fear of unknown in lovecraft works. You don't fear when the octopus satan will suck your soul. You fear it because you don't fucking know what it is.
uh not really, terror is fear produced by human-natural beings, horror being its counterpart being produced by paranormal stuff. its fear
I’ll be honest. I really hate that orange ghost, it creeps the hell out of me
Old Man (Pink) was easily my least favorite. It just creeps around the maze, going through walls, and you never know it's coming until it's basically too late.
Then you’d hate playing Slenderman
@@balls5823 plus its tentacles just freak me out
Orange is named slendy
@@balls5823 it's actually named The Old One, not, "The Old Man" lol
*Therapist:* "Pacman frontview is not real. Pacman frontview will not hurt you."
*Pacman frontview:* 9:50
he looks like the fucking Batman signal on 20 meters of coke.
The fuark that face
.
@@Xplainn93 PREEEACH
Pacman gives you a smoochie
The last part with the dark Pac-Man was amazing.
The fact that you can’t see him but can clearly hear him moving is definitely creepy.
If it made a sound as the ghost got closer I’d probably have a stroke....
It does with inky and pinky
I would too
it does, a buzz. Like old lights in a gas station.
Weird fetish, but whatever floats your ghost
It does with all of them. It is a slight buzzing.
To anyone afraid of jump scares:
(spoilers)
Unless you count the red ghost's "chasing" sound these are the only ones i'd count
8:16 Blue ghost fills screen with shrill sound
9:32 Shadow Pac-Man fills the screen with glitchy effects and could probably be considered a jump scare
9:49 the player getting "eaten" in the FPS section probably counts
my thoughts:
credit to the dev for actually making unique mechanics instead of just "IS SCARY, FLASHING SCARY IMAGES AND SHRILL NOISES"
kinda curious if it's possible to beat the Shadow Pac-Man level, probably not but worth thinking about
every horror game creator ever: but what if i took [name of character]... and i gave [name of character] bloody eyes??!?!?!!? and the game's name is... [NAME OF CHARACTER].EXE OMG IM SO CREATIVE LOOK GUUYS I MAED HOROR GAEM
Thankyou
edfreak9001
Either people are downvoting your comment to kingdom come, or your comment's target audience is made of me and, like, no more than sixty other people or so.
@@alessandrobozzi7085 you cant downvote comments, by the way. it broke when Google+ came and disliking comments still wont work. its broken, it does nothing.
@@alessandrobozzi7085 considering that the thumbs down button is a placebo that does nothing anymore (as far as I know) i'm gonna go with "This is a niche thing for an already niche video"
broke: shadow pac-man
woke: pacn't
@thetwinkdetective
Shadow Pac-Man has the n-word pass
really woke:pacigga
Pacmanigga
I had 3 strokes reading this
Pacman't.
aw shit here comes pacman
PastaLinguine YO YO YO
*redacted screaming*
WHAT IT IS MOTHERFUCKERS
Hey, Pacman! What's up?
No Pac-Man! Drugs are baad!
no one:
orange: he’s just standing there...𝙈𝙀𝙉𝘼𝘾𝙄𝙉𝙂𝙇𝙔
stolen
Taken
Abducted
(jojo theme plays in the distance)
ゴ
ゴ ゴ
ゴ ゴ
ゴ
My interpretation of the end.
Shadow Pac-Man is the game’s way of bringing new souls into the game. When shadow Pac-Man is chasing you, the points and lives on the left of the screen say RUN. Could this be the spirits communicating to the player to prevent you from having the same fate as them? When you get caught, the game glitches out and ghost sprites appear. I have always seen these (in this game) the lost souls showing themselves before your soul gets taken. Your soul then gets transferred into the game. And now you are a ghost, playing a game of infinite Pac-Man for all of eternity...
Props to the game dev for making this game.
Ghosts chase us so we lose and ragequit?
When ever you touch the big dots on level 6 he gets faster, so what happens if you beat level 6?
ChefUTG3 Shadow Pac-Man’s A.I only chases you after a certain amount of time has passed (he didn’t chase the player when he picked up the first big pellet) I’m guessing that lvl6 is unbeatable as Shadow Pac-Man knows where you are at all times. Your soul is pretty much forfeit when you reach that stage.
BlizzMRX what if you managed to edit the game’s code so he never chases you?
ChefUTG3 That is an interesting thought, I’m guessing evil soul-stealing ghouls can adapt. There’s no saying that the games code prevents the entity from interacting with it.
If yall didnt know, "Old One" (pink ghost) is also another name for Cthulu. Probably why it looks more like an octo than ghost.
Fun facts. c:
Actually, just the group of beings he belongs to are called the old ones
@@NeoMetallix stop with that bullshit, pink is not gray, "old one" nickname for the Pink ghost came out before u were born and cthulhu is an octopus so it looks like an octopus here
@@NeoMetallix the OP literally said himself "old one" is the name of Pink ghost genius, what crack did u smoke to not realize it. second, yes they all look like octopuses but the Pink one is the one that looks almost identical to one compared to the other ones dumbass LOL. third, no problem using abbreviation of u for you. fourth, I am not a weeaboo, I am just japanese, but I will not blame u for ur assumption of me being a weeb as the internet is filled with those locusts
Wait, does this mean you could make a Warlock in D&D with a pact with spooky cartridge Pinky?
@Kumiko da Dragon Pretty sure yep Google it but other's have their speculations.
some arcade needs to put this on a machine and stick it in a dark, cobwebbed filled closet.
*Y E S*
Satan: well, i just wanted to say that I'm not even a fan
Supporting that idea
Calm down satan
Agreed. And there's like an animatronic pac-man but spray painted black that jumps out at the end. YOU TRYING TO GIVE PEOPLE A HEART ATTACK?!
I notice some stuff:
The "Insert Coin" changes to "Insert Soul"
The word "Score" changes to "Dread"
The word "Lives" changes to "Death"
The word "Level" changes to "Ghost"
The Score Number changes to "66666"
The Level Number indicates how many Ghosts are in the Level
The Level Number change to "Blindy", "Screamy", "Slendy", "Old one", "???????", "Run"
There are never more than four ghosts, just like in normal Pac-Man. So the numbers really are still just the level numbers. But the first four levels tell you the names of the ghosts that are introduced in those levels.
You missed that Slendy has a random chance to appear a yellowy-gold colour.
@@TekStar3000 that's probably when he's about to kill you
You forgot that the lives changes to an heart
*black pacman starts to move faster*
Oh hell naw
Blac-man?
N-word man?
Nigga pacman
Reindeer Games
I need to see your identification for your n-word pass.
@@leolizard3152 well my ancestors were from africa
Hi Alpha Beta Gamer, i think it's awesome you are showing the world these small hidden horror games, keep up the good work!
El_Mexican27 yes
*YES*
*YES YES YES*
Oh my god.
yes
*y e s*
I agree with UghZan11's comment, this is the best example of a .exe-type game. Just as he says, it's glitched in the right proportion and in a way that seems like it could actually happen to the game.
This ROM hack is very clever, this deserves more attention.
Use the reply feature
this guy be stuck in 2009 😂😂
Wait, aren't most Windows games .exe-type games?
Bruh dis dude doesn’t know how to use the reply
That’s no reason to harass him over it.
"INSERT SOUL"
Don't tell me what to do.
“INSERT SOUL (please)”
@@lukemckenzie0121
Okay!+
@@lukemckenzie0121
I don’t know how to
Blindly: wanders aimlessly, When you're near him, He can sense you.
Screamy: When you're in his line of sight, He'll dash fast to you.
Slendy:(Only appears when power pellet isn't used) He can't move, but will slow you down when you see him.
Old One:(Only appears when power pellet isn't used) She can go through walls.
?????: He'll make almost all the walls invisible, so the ghosts can catch you easily.
R U N: He's super fast than Pacman, Almost Impossible to Escape from him.
Shadow?: He sees you. Always.
@@Kurai0 *I m p o s s i b l e*
@AquaticMushroom GD Exactly
@Mackenzee Bechard No, We found you first.
@Mackenzee Bechard Faker? I think your the fake Pacman around here.
...wait when pacman dies, he becomes one of the ghosts? Cause at the end you're put in a first person perspective and attacked by a different pacman
Part 2 perhaps?
@@hedgedogtaken but, why the others have special powers? Because they have a arrow and a stand?
@@hedgedogtaken Maybe, is because they had different deaths? Or Just different personalities. Who knows?
@@FenLupimo Yeah probably
@@FenLupimo Nani!? Stando!?!?
is it just me or is it more comfortable to sit about six feet back in full-screen aiming a knife at the computer just in case
🤣
Nice, 69th like
Then you would want to strike your device at 9:49.
I threw it when I heard the level start last note...
RIP headphone users
@@maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan not nice, 96th like
Me: how scary can a game made in the 80s be anyways?
This: hold my fear
So my clock was making noises (not ticking, more like gears rattling) and I thought it's just from this video. And it scared the hell out of me when it continued rattling even though the video ended.
"Uh oh."
THEYRE IN THE ROOM WITH ME
@- IronArachnid Oh no...
@- IronArachnid It's been six months
@@dr.flacko203 a year now :/
You know the game gon' be hard when Clyde starts teleporting
What has he been smoking?
@@mmmsubway3417 grandfather
@@mmmsubway3417 he has been smoking grandfather
@@foiledagain1914 His ashes or his crack?
Guess
I wish we had more EXE games instead of copy and pasted ones basically
There was a decent mario one that was made
nice prof pic
I know this EXE actually isn't made but, Ness Godzilla is pretty good. (sorry for my bad english)
Besides the ending with the dead girlfriend crap, it's probably one of the best video game horror stories
Lood Farmer
Oh god I seen that weird red thing before I didn’t know what it was from
the ending of the tune disturbs me every time
there's just something really disturbing about the music getting louder like something is getting closer and closer
Same
And how it ends on a VERY ominous key
So cool! It gets crazy after about the 7th or 8th go, 6:48 around? Like an alternate dark reality takes over.
...I'm pretty sure you got to an alternate dimension from stage 1...
It shows the level you're on lol
@@Burn_Angel yeah you're right, dark reality from the start.
me: *not expecting much*
red ghost: *flies straight towards pac-man*
me: H TO THE E TO THE DOUBLE L NOOOOOOOOO
Grey ghost: *flies straight to pac-man through walls and with 360° of movement*
Me: *Confused screaming*
The Blue Ghost is Screamy, The Red Ghost Is Blindy, The Orange Ghost Is Slendy, The Grey/White Ghost Is Old One.
I think you are colorblind.
@@hamsta9000 I thought the blue ghost was blindy?
@@africheeseyoutube Yeah, he got them confused. Blue is Blindy and Red is Screamy.
God dammit, who’s been shoving souls into the coin slot again?
Sorry my bad
@@Crobifer Damnit Barry
I said I’m sorry
Barry Yee Benson yeah but how many times do we have to tell you not to do that?
Uhh Yes
When you use inspect element and delete everything:
just imagine how cool it would be to have an arcade cabinet that played this in a real arcade.
A haunted arcade
INSERT SOUL
An arcade should switch the og Pac man for this for a Halloween event and watch everyone's reactions
Nah mate, I fear that the youngsters will be haunted for life
I mean like, they don't really expect anything and you scare them by switching the arcades
now the 1st pov is what i truly fear
On Friv too
@Shon M. Oddshow Dark Deception btw
There are several 1st person Pac-Man games. The first one I've ever played is simply called FPS-Man. There's also one Markiplier played that I can't remember the name of, it's in one of his "3 scary games" videos. Then there's that Dark Deception everyone is talking about, but it isn't really pac-man related, just a similar type of game.
Names of the ghosts in this game:
Blue - Blindy
Red - Screamy
Orange - Slendy
Pink - Old One
PAC-Man...? - ???????
¿...naM-CAP (Shadow PAC) - RUN
When you try to find "run" hotkey
But there's no hotkey for running faster...
Blindy seems to act like a normal pacman ghost, just a bit more visually creepy.
Screamy seems to stay in one place for 2 ish seconds? than move for around 2 seconds.
Slendy seems to blink around sorta randomly.
The Old One seems to just chase you, ignoring walls.
Huh.
i just notice the first time the Old one in the level number but i dint see when that was the ghost in game
All the original ghosts behaved differently, with the red one actively following you, the blue one trying to avoid you, the pink one going in loops, trying to catch you off guard, with the orange one just wandering around.
Here, Blindy wanders around blindly (hence the name).
Screamy charges at you screaming (if he sees you).
Slendy teleports in front of you.
And The Old One does exactly as you said it does.
Shadow Pac-Man copies your moves, but very fast. I guess he’s just dragging out the player’s death, but perhaps if you go fast enough and smart enough you can win?
Level 1: Blue Ghost
Level 2: Red Ghost (had madness)
Level 3: Orange Ghost (when you get back here, he spawn)
Level 4: Pink Ghost (can walk through wall)
Level 5: Madness (if you died 3 times, wall's gone)
Level 6: Ghost gone, now with Evil twin (if you eat x-ray 2 times, evil twins will be fast)
Blue ghost: Blindy[Wanders aimlessy]
Red Ghost: Screamy[Charges at you once it sees you]
Orange ghost: Slendy[Appears randomly in front of you]
Pink Ghost: Old One[Walks through walls]
Level 5:[WALLS DISSAPEAR]
Evil Twin:Shadow Pacman:RUN[Gets faster with every big dot/x ray eaten]
Do you mean if you eat normal pills 2 times the evil pacman will go faster?
@@mlem1811 idk
@@mlem1811 yes
😂
Ads for this game would be like:
"If you beat level 5 you're legally skilled 😎👌👌🤔"
If you don't fucking die from a heart attack on lvl 69 you are legally skilled 😎
99% Can't get their souls back 👌
Only 1% can beat level 5
dad: *fucking dies irl* // mom😎: *starts eating his fucking soul*
Only 15% can get to pink colour
Never thought id be scared of a game my parents grew up with (well without the hack of course) thanks for liking bois, girls and toddlers on their moms phone for almost 300 likes
Play Sinistar. It's a old space shooter arcade game. It's terrifying.
@@Da_mutha_peckin_H.A._double_T. *I AM SINISTAR*
What about polybius
Hi fellow GD player
Henlo fellow GD player
what if.. we kissed.. in the haunted pac-man game.. Haha just kidding...
..unless? 😳
bro kiss me bro
Oh...
That escalated quickly.
But nah lol 😂 but wait...
*you weren't supposed to do that*
The ghosts and ambience : We're slowly getting scarier and scarier trough different strategies, and by using a "cursed arcade" theme.
The starting music : haha earrape go brrr
As a musician, I actually find the starting music to be very unsettling
@@necolie how? I’m not a musician
@@sud1881 it’s all about expectation. we already know what the pac-man intro sounds like, so when the speed and volume glitch it can make it really eerie. it’s like a musical uncanny valley
@@necolie oh ok
I love how subtle this game is. Most exe games are quite loud and "in your face", like the false jumpscares in a modern horror films. This game let's your anticipation and anxiety do the work, using it's quiet off-putting tone and constantly shifting/vanishing graphics.
8:17 ...
A first-person Pac-man game is instantly a good horror game
Silent Magician you should try out the pacman level in wolfenstein if you haven't already
Or Dark deception.
@@Ryan_C_GH Shoot you beat me to it! Yeah Dark Deception is a great Pac-Man-esque horror game
Play fps-man
nope, no is not I have seen a lot of Pac-man ''horror'' games in first person and believe me they are bad as heck I'm not saying that every Pac-man horror game in first person is bad but there's a lot that are bad
Scariest thing about this game?
The way how on level 6, if you read the number when i flashes, it reads "RUN"
time stamp?
alright got it. On level five sometimes on "lives" it flashed "death"
@@coolcake5560 it flashes like that on all levels. btw if you look on the level numbers, you'll see the new names of the ghosts.
Blindy, Screamy, Slendy, Old one.
And ???????.
I noticed Shadow Pac-Man gets faster after eating a power pellet
Me: hey mom can I have Pac-Man
Mom: we have pac man at home
Pac man at home:
The monster from under a kid's bed who went to randomly steal an Arcade with Pac-Man only to later possess it, change it up and troll the kid:
It is a very cool creepypasta game yeah, and one of the few .exe games that is actually a game and not a glorified bad cinematic with 'gameplay' elements
"...and then sans had hyperrelaistic blod and he was actually in ur room irl!!!!!!"
i hate those stupid [INSERT GAME OR OTHER MEDIA INSTANCE NAME HERE].EXE games. theyre always "LOK THEY HAVE BLOOD EYES AND THEY KIL U WEN U SLEEP!!!!!!"
If you look carefully stuff like Score and Lives are replaced by the word "Ghost"
edit: Level "4" sometimes replaces 4 with Old One. Level 5 replaces Lives with "Death".
edit2: almost at the end of Level 5, 5 is replaced with 999999
edit:4 Level 6 replaces 6 with "Run"
The level says ghost and the level number has the new ghost's name!
Funtime Foxy FNAFSL: * puts edit 4 after edit 2 *
basic math: *am i a joke to you?*
Level 2 is screamy level 1 is blindy and level 3 is slendy
@@thelifeofnothing6636 and level 4 is Old One.
Lives is always replaced with deaths
So if you die to Shadow Pac-Man, you become one of the ghosts the next Pac-Man seeks out/avoids?
And you get eaten
I think it's more of a cycle - you die, then you become Shadow Pac-Man, and in order to liberate yourself, you have to kill the next Pac-Man
Robo wow i didn’t see this way. That’s explain my theory about ShadowPac. If you die you become a ghost, and to recover your life you must kill the other victim (other pac) to be free.
Other thing it’s ShadowPac, he hates the light, when you eat the Light-Pac-Dots he feels very mad. In 2019 nobody got complete the stage 6 without be captured?
but its making the dot eating sound as you move... ?
Honestly, I found orange’s sudden silence mechanic to be oddly relaxing. The immediate thing that reminded me of this is when rain starts to fall especially hard for a second and kind of drowns out everything else.
What I love about this game is that it's your typical "haunted by a ghost" game, but it's not in your face (Except for that last bit, lol). It doesn't have text telling how children have died, or displays large amounts of gore. It creates horror with clever mechanics and atmosphere. It shows and makes the player feel the fear, it doesn't tell you why you should be scared. You feel the claustrophobia, the fear of being lost and that your death might be lurking at the turn of the corner. You crave for one large pill to ease the anxiety allowing you to know what's around you, feel safe for a bit just to turn off the lights a few moments later.
Then in the end, you get caught by shadow Pacman, the game glitches and now you're a trapped soul in the game, you're more confused and disoriented than before, but because of the change of perspective the game now feels kinda more natural, because we it's a first perspective view we get all the information possible we could get from this point of view, in contrast to the bird eye view which should give us the most but is highly obscure, causing that feeling of unease.
In the end we see what we need to see, we're now part of the game trapped to repeat the cycle for the rest of eternity. It's as much of a typical ghost story as every other game, but one that's masterfully done.
I remember reading the “hey this game exists” post on tumblr from the creator! I was never gonna play the game because I don’t handle playing spooky games well, but I’m super glad I got to see what this game was about!!
Lol i cant handle horror games too
*_Who else got crazy anxiety from watching this?_*
are you sure it isn’t the impending riot of Area 51 that’s scaring you CIA?
@@strpe9701 Dead meme
SuperChrissyBros. Seriously. A pun! In front of my comments?
✋me
Me
Ah, PacMan, just how I remember it! With the classic ghosts Blindy, Screamy, Slendy, and Old One!
And with a free bonus character!
Introducing: nam-caP
I like this kind of horror, it doesnt necesarily bring something on the lines of abstract surrealism but right on the lines of taking something familiar and well known and making act odd and out of place which adds to the sense of dread and anxiety. The semi distorted pacman theme in the start set the tone for the entire game and that anxiety never left or faded unless you really look deep into it and see the seams of the horror behind it which until that point loses the anxiety and dread aspect since you know what is going on already. Rather creative and it sort of similar to how Sonic.exe was when people started knowing about it back then though IMO the dread and discomfort of the atmosphere Sonic.exe had was short lived as it went too over the top too fast which instead made it more silly once you played it long enough. This though is a lot more creative and a lot more subtle which i like very much. The way the whole game screen curves as if its playing on a CRT monitor of the original pacman arcade cabinet is a nice touch
Thank you!
Couldn’t have said it better myself.
If you liked this, than you should check out ‘the
The only One Than dont call This game "Pac-Man.exe"
You have My respect
Mista Krabos Galaga Fan I call it pac-man.xex
(I was joking I actually just call it PAC)
I can call it Pacman.sex
It's hard to do the zalgo'd pacman title though.
People who don’t know how to do the zalgo text call it Pac-Man.exe
@@fournine. ANY WAYS!?
I really like when people reimagine classic and simple games with new mechanics
When you order the “PAC-MAN” game for Christmas but you misspell “Santa” and spell “Satan” at the top of your “Wishlist.”
2007: Can it run Crysis?
2014: Can it run Minecraft?
2019: Can it run Pac-Man?
don't forget the original
2006: Can it run Doom?
@@Baeath i mean a calculator could run doom... and it's literally been done.
@@1gamewin yeah, and pac-man could too. your point?
My anxiety has never been this high in a long time..
The sound of the dots being eaten, and that “wee-woo” noise is so nerve racking..
I also had to stop watching it when it started to glitch and everything
Achievement Unlocked: *The Enemy Within*
get nae nae'd by shadow Pac-Man.
Now thats alot of damage.
@@pasansskelebone5957 haha because of the likes and positive comment this must mean i am now the funy man
Us: The Movie: The Game
Very funy man
Achievement Unlocked: *MY EYES!!*
get nae nae’d by Blindy. Noob.
Achievement Unlocked: *Banshee*
get nae nae’d by Screamy.
Achievement Unlocked: *How many times we gotta teach you this lesson, old man?!*
get nae nae’d by The Old One.
Achievement Unlocked: *DOOD HES HACKING*
get nae nae’d by Slendy.
Get your vibe checked
Old One: Walks through walls
SCP-106 "The Old Man": Walks through walls
Hmmmmmmmmmmm
I think the Old One is more based off of the Lovecraftian Old Ones, because of the tentacles, but yeah the resemblance is there
And theyre both slow
I'm the 106th like, it's meaningless
@@gingaid5217 One traps you in a pocket dimension and the other scares the shit our of you
Old one: goes through walls
106: goes through walls
Old one: slow
106: slow
Anyone else noticed that around 2:24, Screamy's sprite kinda glitches out to his old look.
Yeah, not only screamy. If I'm not in mistake Old Man does that too
Oh yeah!
Yeah, but I can tell you from looking at it that this ROM was built from the ground up, so it's intentional.
@@matthewbertrand4139 Built up from ground? Nah, this had to have some stuff from the Original ROM
@@mal0gen No, it doesn't, unless you count the jacked up level intro and the old ghost sprites. Maybe the Pac-Man sprite but I doubt it. Promise.
The gang is all here!
Blindy
Screamy
Slendy
OLD ONE
Ah yes, my favorite Pacman ghost, Old One.
Blacc man go big funny
I feel like this version is much harder than the normal because of these 3:
1. Limited Field of Vision
2. New A.l
3. Sound that would scare normal gamers
define normal gamers
The fact that there’s no sound effects other than PAC-Man eating in the 6th level makes it 10x scarier.
The changing texture of the map and weird behavior of the ghosts makes this shit literally anxiety in video game format
Me: *sees the Old One passes through walls*
Also me:
Wait, that's illegal.
SCP - 106 Just broke out of the SCP universe and entered the pac-man universe through gate A, Fire le sun laser
Old One: Wall's don't work, Pac-Man
Since they are ghosts, seems legit
Old one? You mean Pinky?
@@procrastinatorqueen I think so, I don't understand it either
Here before all the comments are “i see recommendations bought us all together”
Gentlemen.
"`cue epic music`"
Meet the Recommendation Squad
Here
Probably one of the best indie horror games I've seen on this channel. Nothing explicit, nothing feels cheap and lazy. Simple, but solid scare tactics that work to turn a fun time waster into something legit spooky.
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