Pac-Man's turning 30, hoping to make a comeback with new game |
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Someone needs an intervention
Pac-Man, everyone's favorite pill-popping ghostbuster, is turning 30 next year, and Namco Bandai is celebrating it by giving him a new game. The studio hopes the game will be Pac-Man's comeback, since he's on the verge of an early mid-life crisis.
Hirokazu Yasuhara, the original co-creator and level designer for Sonic the Hedgehog, will be working on the title. He had hinted back in GDC 2008 that he wanted to make a new character action game, while also mentioning that the Pac-Man genre has great potential for a comeback. Are we in for a new Pac-Man World-type game?
On an unrelated note, do you guys remember the Pac-Man movie that was announced in 2004? Wonder what happened with that.
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I still often play regular original old Pacman. Quite a tense game at times. I'd like that in multiplayer with the ghosts controlled by other players, perhaps with teams of pacmen and ghosts. I dunno... I just like the old Pacman and not this Pacman World stuff.
I don't think pac man can ever have a comeback that would amount to when it first released way back when. That's like trying to revive pong. But if they did something along the lines of that pac man anniversary game they released on XBLA, then that would be swell!
and i need to change my pants
Pac Man HD anyone?
or how bout 3D Pac man!
"WACCA WACCA WACCA IN YOUR FACE!"
Just what I was thinking!
Pac-Man is still a great game all these years later. Played the arcade version years ago.
Also own the arcade versions of Pac-Man and Ms. Pac Man on Namco Museum and Nanco: 50 Anniversary (both XBOX versions).
Heck, I still remember the Pac-Man cartoon from the 1980's. Used to watch it as a kid, I'm only 31 years old.