Posts made in June, 2011

PAC-MAN on the Apple Mac App store

Posted by Gerard on Jun 10, 2011 in Misc | 0 comments

Just downloaded PAC-MAN from the Apple Mac App store and I’m a tad disappointed.

I was overjoyed when I saw the original Japanese artwork (the one for PUCKMAN, not the ugly Midway version, but once I started the game I was greeted with the Japanese table graphics.

Artwork as present in the Apple App Store:

But when you start the game it looks like the Japanese cocktail, 2 times instructions and a tiny playfield that a lot of people complained about online:

If it was up to me I would have it like this:

But seeing every reviewer complained about the small size of the play-field maybe something like this would be much better:

Of course the above only works for the die hard PAC-MAN fans who are aware of the much better Japanese PUCKMAN graphics. The rest of the world sadly only know PAC-MAN by the hideous graphics made my Midway games, the American distributor.

Midway USA on the left, Namco Japanese on the right.

UPDATE:

I contacted Namco and explained my concern with the misleading screenshot on the Apple store as those graphics are no where present in the actual game app. received a rude reply on how that was a flyer and not a representation of the actual game.