I was working a Video store when this game was available... It was our biggest selling item ... back in early 1982... The next biggest seller was "Pit-Fall"...
What a horrible, horrible adaptation of the classic arcade game. We actually reserved our copy in advance at the local department store. Paid $35...which was a ton of money for a video game cartridge back then. Atari did earn some street cred back with their adaptation of Ms. Pac-Man. That one was really well done and quite faithful to the arcade version.
They were thinking the arcade version brought in more money than organized religion. Anything else you need to know?
ReplyDeleteThe "fail" part was that it was nothing like the arcade version. It was really bad
DeleteI was working a Video store when this game was available...
ReplyDeleteIt was our biggest selling item ... back in early 1982...
The next biggest seller was "Pit-Fall"...
Pitfall was way better than atari pac-man. I found an on-line version of pitfall and played it a couple of dozen times
DeleteWhat a horrible, horrible adaptation of the classic arcade game. We actually reserved our copy in advance at the local department store. Paid $35...which was a ton of money for a video game cartridge back then. Atari did earn some street cred back with their adaptation of Ms. Pac-Man. That one was really well done and quite faithful to the arcade version.
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Yeah Ms. Pac-Man was pretty cool. Way better than Pac-Man
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