![]() ![]() You’ll have to excuse me now I think I may need to take the afternoon and head to the doctor. I’m planning to challenge Marc to a game here at NCHEG, but first I’m going to play a few rounds by myself to freshen my skills. When Marc first saw it, his facial expression gave away the fact that like me, he remains a fan. We quickly discovered that in our youth we both had played Baby Pac-Man at the same local bowling alley. Until recently, when we acquired a working copy of Baby Pac-Man for the NCHEG collection, I hadn’t played the game in more than two decades. In this way, action between the video game and the pinball play is interlinked in a more significant way than just your final score. Pac-man Fever I got a pocket full of quarters and Im headed to the arcade I dont have a lot of money but Im bringing everything I made I got a callous on. Capitalizing on the video game craze of the early 1980s, the song, about the classic video game Pac-Man, peaked at number 9 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States in March 1982. On-screen escape tunnels transition gameplay from the arcade screen to the short pinball playfield below, where players can earn energizers and points. 'Pac-Man Fever' is a hit single by Buckner & Garcia. ![]() Pac-Man, but there are no energizers (power-ups) to help turn the table on the ghosts pursuing Baby Pac-Man. Players of Baby Pac-Man navigate the video game maze in much the same way they do in both Pac-Man and Ms. A local bowling alley had a copy and small crowds gathered to watch players challenge the machine on a regular basis. The minigames are pretty much on par with the competition, and though there are a few inspired moments, the generally shallow, repetitive gameplay and slow pacing plague Pac-Man Fever just as they have plagued other games in the genre. But don’t let the title fool you this was a difficult game to master. 5.2 out of 10 (52) Pac-Man Fever is basically on par with most other party games from over the years, though it comes much later. In 1982, Dave Nutting, an industry veteran who had earlier produced Sea Wolf (1976) and Gorf (1981), launched Bally/Midway’s Baby Pac-Man, a unique pinball and arcade game hybrid. Pac-Man and many other Namco favorites from popular franchises such as Tekken. Pac-Man and many other Namco favorites from popular franchises such as Tekken, Ridge Racer and Soul Calibur. A multiplayer party game for all ages, Pac-Man Fever stars Pac-Man, Ms. In addition to playing arcade games, I also loved the fast action and marvelous sounds of pinball. A multiplayer party game for all ages, Pac-Man Fever stars Pac-Man, Ms. I can still remember the sense of pride I felt the first time I broke 100,000 points. With its four distinct mazes and faster action, this game proved much more challenging, and a successful round yielded untold school hallway bragging rights. Pac-Man later in the year, I immediately switched my allegiance and, like most of my friends, dropped quarter after quarter in pursuit of the high score at the local arcade. a phenomenon to the early 80s arcade industry that caused millions of people to deplete their savings on paraphernalia relating to a yellow pie. Such a global phenomenon was bound to inspire spin-offs, and in this case it included a wife and children. My heart still holds a special place for Pac-Man and his family. Like Marc, I too, caught Pac-Man Fever when it struck in epidemic proportion in 1981. My fellow CHEGhead Marc Check began his last blog talking about some of the great Pac-Man artifacts in the NCHEG collection and how this character evokes in him a sense of early 80’s nostalgia. ![]()
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