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Pac-Man - Xbox Live Arcade

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An arcade classic celebrating furious gluttony lives again on Xbox Live Arcade...but with all due respect to history, it's kind of boring.

Available on: Xbox 360
Genre: Action
Release date: Aug 9, 2006
Published by: Microsoft
Developed by: Namco Bandai

Features: Widescreen

5 SO-SO
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Latest Stories

Video game characters zombified

Zombie Link. Zombie Aerith. And yes, Zombie Piplup.

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Features

Video game characters zombified

Zombie Link. Zombie Aerith. And yes, Zombie Piplup.

Oct 29, 2009

Video game propaganda posters you've never seen...

It's virtual wartime and the troops need motivation!

Oct 14, 2009

Why Pac-Man was light years ahead of its time

Proof that Pac-Man pretty much invented gaming as we know it

Sep 10, 2009

If game characters used Twitter

The secret lives of gaming's greats, in 140 characters or less

Jul 21, 2009

The secretly sinister storylines of your favourite...

You never knew they were so wrong...

Jun 12, 2009

65 things that look like Pac-Man

Waka waka waka (pause) waka waka waka waka

Jun 28, 2008

Holiday Download Guide

Got points? Here's how to spend 'em. The best and worst of Xbox Live Arcade, Wii Virtual Console and...

Dec 21, 2007

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News

Pac-Man CE Nominated for Game Developers Choice...

Toru Iwatani's final game is nominated for a prestigious honor.

News from N4G Feb 7, 2008

Holiday Download Guide

Got points? Here's how to spend 'em. The best and worst of Xbox Live Arcade, Wii Virtual Console and...

Dec 21, 2007

Pac-Man gets first update in 26 years

Pac-Man Championship Edition breaks the mold on Xbox 360

Jun 5, 2007

Delicious prizes offered for Pac-Man champ

100,000 Microsoft points and two decades of toasted sandwiches up for grabs

Apr 18, 2007

Ms. Pac-Man munches onto Arcade

This weeks Xbox Live Arcade offering features a trip back to a time when Big-Hair Bands, parachute...

News from N4G Jan 9, 2007

New Rally-X will be the next Live Arcade game

New Rally-X will be the next Live Arcade game released on Xbox Live Marketplace, probably wednesday....

News from N4G Oct 20, 2006

TGS: XBLA Pac-Man World Championship in '07

Microsoft and Toru Iwatani (he's the creator of Pac-Man) announced plans for a World Championship...

News from N4G Sep 20, 2006

Microsoft Showcases Nearly 110 Xbox 360 Games at...

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News from N4G Sep 20, 2006

Pac-Man - Screens and info

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News from N4G Aug 10, 2006

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Review

When does nostalgia turn into plain old ancient history?

Aug 9, 2006

A true coin-op classic, Pac-Man ushered in the wave of non-shooting "cute" games in 1980 and gets credit as gaming's first pop-culture phenomenon. That's great, he's historically important - but do you still want to hang out with him? Maybe not. Pac-Man is groundbreaking but ultimately pretty boring. As you race around gobbling dots, the maze never changes; only the speed of the monsters, the length of their vulnerability and the routes they take deviate between stages. The game also suffers ...

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Previews

Pac-Man - Xbox Live Arcade

[360] You know the drill... eat the dots, the strawberry and ghosts

Jun 21, 2006

Who would have thought that a game that requires you to manipulate a small, yellow disk around a maze, devouring dots and avoiding malevolent ghosts would become the foundation of all video gaming. Strange as it may seem, Pac-Man is arguably the game that earned the videogame industry mainstream, pop culture acceptance (yes, Pong and Space Invaders were big, but Pac-Man exploded). After sinking some time into the new Xbox Live Arcade version, we remember what all the hooplah was about. One of ... » Read Full Pac-Man - Xbox Live Arcade preview

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