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iPhone game of the day: Pac-Man

By Justin Towell published 22 June 2010

Still superb after 30 years

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Game: Pac-Man
Price: £2.99/$4.99
Size: 3.5MB
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How many of today's games will still be this fresh in thirty years' time? Pac-Man on iPhone is still charming, still iconic... still utterly addictive. All you need to do is steer Pac-Man round a maze (using tilt, swipe or touch-screen D-pad controls), eating pills and avoiding the four coloured ghosts. Anyone can understand and enjoy that.

That waka-waka noise is here in full effect as Pac-Man chomps through rows of dots and the noise the ghosts make as they're banished to the middle room is proper old-school awesome. With Xbox-style achievements to unlock, new difficulty levels and a level select for any level you've previously finished, this is asgood a conversionas you could ask for.

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Justin was a GamesRadar staffer for 10 years but is now a freelancer, musician and videographer. He's big on retro, Sega and racing games (especially retro Sega racing games) and currently also writes for Play Magazine, Traxion.gg, PC Gamer and TopTenReviews, as well as running his own YouTube channel. Having learned to love all platforms equally after Sega left the hardware industry (sniff), his favourite games include Christmas NiGHTS into Dreams, Zelda BotW, Sea of Thieves, Sega Rally Championship and Treasure Island Dizzy.

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