![]() ![]() I wonder if they still have the solution lying around in a warehouse somewhere. I wonder if this was just an existing Milton Bradley game slapped with a Pac-Man license on it. This game and its relation to Pac-Man is minimal at most, this could’ve featured generic symbols and numbers and would have the same impact. Pac-Man: The Card Game would’ve fit fine in a third grade classroom as an entertaining side activity, with helping kids learn math, but it’s not an amazing game by any stretch. But since this might make the game tougher and take considerably longer, you only need to get to 50 points with these special set of rules. If you wanted a challenge (or you just wanna be a dick), you could make it so negative points are allowed. At least, that’s how the game is normally played. ![]() There is a catch, though: Your equation can’t equal a negative number, so if you did 1 – 10, you’d get no points. Shown here: a 5, a Pac-Man card, and a 1 awards player one 6 points whereas a 1, a ghost card, and a 10 gives player two no points. Enter Pac-Man: The Card Game, and Pac-Man: TWO CHALLENGING PUZZLES! But the Pac-Man game train didn’t stop there. There’s not a whole lot to say about the Pac-Man board games, they’re simple conversions of the arcade game. Also, the easily losable marbles were replaced with much more sensible chips. Pac-Man, swapping control to another player when an enemy ghost captured her. Pac-Man, but replaced the power pellets with a die roll, and had only one player take control of Ms. It’s like Hungry Hungry Hippos, but with a board and actual strategy attached to it. It plays much like the arcade game, where multiple Pac-Men could gobble dots for points while being avoided by the ghosts. I could cover the Pac-Man board game by Milton Bradley in 1980, but it’s been done to death. This was mostly in part because of Midway’s very aggressive marketing, who were the rightsholders for Pac-Man in the US before Namco took back the rights. ![]() Back when Buckner and Garcia were exclaiming they had “Pac-Man Fever,” and before this beloved character was not being slapped into crappy cartoons written by ex- Tiny Toon Adventures writers, Pac-Man was super-popular in the United States. Let’s go back to the past, and talk about a little pellet chomper named Pac-Man. 90% of these looked the same, from the materials inside to the back of the box! Actual picture I took of a Monopoly section at a board game store. ![]()
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