Pac-Man for the Atari 2600

[Weegee9005]

That's PS3 games right there.

[DarkHari]

I think this is giving me a seizure......

[Smokydoggg]

I've always had good taste, and even at 6 years old I could tell this was a stinker. I was like WTF WHY DOESN'T PAC MAN LOOK UP WHEN GOING UP OR DOWN WHEN GOING DOWN

[Nodog438]

"Warning:Beware of wild ghosts having seizures"

[whotaughtyou]

ROMANIA CONVENTION COMPLEX SOVENIR BASIL SWABY TORT WATCH DONE FAINT

[whotaughtyou]

JOB INTERVIEW TOTAL PERVERT

[whotaughtyou]

LISA SNOWDON C I A

[UltimateSonic899]

That ghost is teleporting. I CALL HAX!!! Or old game, whichever came first.

[TheWolfgabe]

This game was partially responsible for the 1983 video game crash

[thedarkone2134]

You guys think this is bad? First of all it was captured wrong and is missing frames, second this is miles better then the vic 20 version.

[TECpeds94]

Lmao i didnt know pac man would look this bad back in the day, its so confusing and the things pop up everywhere.

[Breezetail10255]

I want this.

[grim10fire]

well, better than call of duty modern warfare 3.

[Raappabyxor]

I skipped school to play this for hours after hours in a local clothing store where they had a jeans brand promotion back then. I was absolutely hooked. The store assistances thought I was a weird kid.

[bryede]

The ghosts do flicker, but the capture hardware is dropping frames making it look like they're flashing all over the place. On a real TV, you can tell where they all are because they're all drawn 15 times a second in round robin fashion. It still sucked, though.

[captainsunder009]

What did I just watch?

[supereldinho]

Man, Atari made a shitload of...shit back in the days...

[MrSupermario654]

the ghost is having seizures

[tiburonesrojos25]

this was the shit back in 1980s

[baddestrorules]

this is insulting

[MultiGlory13]

i was 17 back in 2007

[codgamer266]

i find this east to mausterbate to

[crisrasije]

como jogava isso quando era mlk... eram horas e horas tentando vencer os fantasmas cada vez mais rápidos, rsrs

[grim10fire]

this does not compare to the arcade version. this is a terrible port, not even terrible more like shit port back then, and I was really disappointed. Fucking ghost are everywhere in my ass. Does gave me nightmares.

[jacoblonewolf]

I couldn't watch 20 seconds of gameplay. Yeah, this and E.T. turned the public off to home counsels until the N.E.S. Glad the arcades were still going.

[GasmaskAvenger]

"What kind of a fucked up Pac Man is this?"

[1Thompsonmusic]

@GasmaskAvenger

This is BEST version that has ever BEEN! Before your time no doubt.

[juanjoct877]

ayss ke recuerdos esta consola la tenia yo ke pena ke la tiraran mis padres a la basura hoy seria una relikia.... como me gustaria poder conservarla :(

[MarcoRiva1200]

WTF IS THIS SHIT ?

[PSspecialist]

@MarcoRiva1200 It's a disgrace to Pac-Man that's what it is

[1Thompsonmusic]

@MarcoRiva1200

PAC MAN, ATARI 2600!! You probably wasn't even born when this came out.

[Goombuu]

@MarcoRiva1200 a GAME

[indyxj]

I remember sitting on the floor so long as a kid playing this that I fell down when I went to get up because my legs were numb!!

[jtrain100179]

na that honor is reserved for et

[guyonearth]

The ghosts were not rendered every frame. Because of memory constraints only one ghost at a time could be on screen, so that's why they flicker so bad. Makes it kind of hard to play. The 5200 version did not do that. The programmer wanted to use a bigger ROM but Atari nixed that to save money.

[sailorenlil]

Ah an old classic. I used to play that like each and every day.

[vgmc7650]

Du da du deh. Dun, dundn, dun dun dundn...boop, chew chew. Typhoid.  Typhoid. Brrrrrrrrreeeeeeeeeeeeeep!

[tmsbnds]

hmm the ghosts on my atari didn't glitch like that. you could all ghosts at the same time

[tbb033]

@tmsbnds thats because the frameskip on whatever emulator this was recorded on was set wrong

the sound is off a little too

[Kadiezi]

Isn't pacman supposed to be eating round dot things, not long brown bars that look amazingly like shit?

Maybe it's a metaphor for playing this game.

[hugo182]

where the ghosts really that glitchy?

[SHITTYBOYBOY]

at least its better than Morden Warfare 3

[Tigerlady248]

How did you even PLAY that?! Much less avoid seizers?

[ericon52168]

the ghosts are obeying Schrodinger's equation

[bocaj5509]

Pac man farts every time he eats something

[theregularguychannel]

Namco is 100000000000000000 times better

[piratatrillo]

cool!!!!



[superadlerboy]

better then black ops

[bobbydylanio]

well the plots better than Uncharted 2 at least

[nicolunacba]

Fucking random ghosts!

[robertsfunny1995]

Geez with all that flickering how can you not get hit? There's no way to dodge.

[DMXP100]

@robertsfunny1995 It looks better on a CRT running at full frames. YouTube converts videos to 30fps, while the game should run at 60fps, so frames are skipped to preserve speed. This causes the horrible flickering in the video.

Apparently, though, the flickering was still pretty bad in real life, so it's kind of a moot point.

[xwerefoxx]

@robertsfunny1995 The game looked like it was glitching i owned the Atari 2600 and the that game i never had that problem that may be a ROM and an atari Emulator

[RockBand971]

@JasonLee215 Meh, maybe, the Genesis controllers are compatible with the Ataris so that right.

[MultiEnglish1]

yay.

[RockBand971]

@JasonLee215 That, i don't know, maybe it was a strategy or something.

[CHAM0RRITO]

can you believe i actually found a pattern and turned my score over.

[RockBand971]

@JasonLee215 give the link in a PM.

[RockBand971]

@JasonLee215 i find that hard to believe.

[RockBand971]

@JasonLee215

Awww i want Sonic in my Nintendo..... oh wait.... i totally forgot, is on Nintendo now!

Let's wait for Sony to fell and then God of War will be US, Microsoft is hard to beat so anything is possible.

[RockBand971]

@JasonLee215

Quality? Graphics? Fuck that, all i care is the games, and the NES DO have a lot of them.

Master System have almost all the Genesis games but with half of it's content, like Sonic The Hedgehog.

[gjc82071]

Haha, Naw, actually it was great. I Never had the SMS but I had a pre-Atari 2600 dedicated console, the 2600, 5200, Intellivision, Magnavox Odyssey 2, Commodore Vic20/64, Timex Sinclair 1000, NES, SNES & Sega Genesis. I was never wanting for video games, ya know? haha. I now have 16 real vintage/classic consoles, but they're packed away. I mostly just use retro emulators. I have SMS emulator/every game. Nice system. I like SMS Rampage. Do you still do any retro gaming/use any emulators??

[RockBand971]

@JasonLee215

You buy what!?

I would get it if it was a Genesis but a Master System!? Seriously!?

[RockBand971]

@JasonLee215 Sega Dreamcast was released 2001, it is obvious that they were making products for it in that time.

[jrj575]

Oh man! Have graphics come a long way! I still remember being the first of my friends in elementary school to get Pac Man for Atari 2600. They thought that game was soooo cool.

[RockBand971]

@JasonLee215 No, they have been making products since1996, in other words, the Nintendo 64.

[RockBand971]

@JasonLee215 That doesn't sound so bad.

[RockBand971]

@JasonLee215 Then what did Nyko do to them?

[RockBand971]

@JasonLee215 You mean the Wand and the Nunchuk? They sued them? Wow.

As for the coolers, i already now they were bullshit, so it's not surprising.

[RockBand971]

@JasonLee215

I have 3 evidences.

1. I have the Nyko charger for my Nintendo Wii controllers, and in the back of the product says "Approved by Nintendo"

2. Nyko has been making products for Nintendo (and other videogame companies) since the GameCube (I own the GameCube Longer Cable, the Nyko CD holder and the Nyko Memory card).

3. Neither Nintendo, Microsoft or Sony had any problems with them, so i'm guessing they think is ok (unlike the R4 and stuff like that).

[RockBand971]

@JasonLee215

The Power Grip give 15 hours of play!?

That's amazing!

Thanks for the info man, and is just 30 bucks!

And about the extra power, i don't give a damn, just plug it all night and you are done.

[RockBand971]

@JasonLee215 Who wants to watch TV in a game? i mean, that's pretty useless for me, i would do the same thing that i did with the GameBoy shitty accessories, just don't buy it.

As the converter, 4 words IS NOT A GENESIS.

[RockBand971]

@JasonLee215 >Game Boy had a bunch of useless accessories Don't buy it, dummy. >Super Game Boy adapter for the SNES seemed like a stupid idea >Game Boy adapter >Master-Gear converter useful accessorie Hippocrate >Car adapter FYI EVERYTHING have a car adapter. >TV tuner Are you serious? >useless accessories like a camera and/or printer I agree with that one

[RockBand971]

@JasonLee215 And sorry if this look messy, is YouTube's stupid comment system.

[RockBand971]

@JasonLee215 So? That's 5 mil players who wasted their money, besides GameBoy and Sega Pocket had more and better games than that, not counting the GB is only 8-bits and there lots of people to play with.

As for Lynx, i'm getting a 3DS, so the battery life also sucks, but the difference between the 3DS and Lynx is that you can change the 3DS' battery, also i'm not saying they were bad consoles, i'm just saying that there were better choices.

[RockBand971]

@JasonLee215 Jaguar had a horrible control design and there were only 2 games i enjoyed, Lynx sucked cuz no one had it and the battery live sucks and i never tried the ST PCs so i don't know what to say.

[cygil1]

@JasonLee215 The thing about the video game crash is... there wasn't any slump in aggregate sales, it's just that there were too many companies flooding the market with too many poor quality games.

[cygil1]

That... is a piece of shit. Even for a 4k ROM, that is a piece of shit. Give me a book on the atari 2600 chipset and two weeks, and I could code something better than that. Hell, a completely untrained person could probably code something better in six weeks.

[pfrenzy07]

Rofl the Atari 2600 port of PAC man had limitations, one huge one being that you could only display one ghost per frame. Hence why all the ghosts are flickering everywhere

[coreyinkato]

Every programmer who wrote a line of code for this game should have been fired.

[MrWillzlinz]

I can imagine someone popping in the cartridge, playing the game and saying, "The fuck is this shit!?"

[AdmiralBjorn]

Balls, and I just bought a 2600 along with pacman :(

[DanH1970]

my mom blames the onset of my brother's seizure problems on this game. I can see it maybe.

[VallenatoGC]

jajajaja pense que lo havia visto todo, ahora veo que me equibocaba XD

[savelijah]

SUPERMAN 64 IS SUCKING WORSE THEN ET IF U PLAY STUPIDMAN 64 U WILL BE LUCKY NOT TO DIE

[1985SJW]

I've played pac man to say that I wasn't born until 85 I'm gob smacked to see the out come of a much loved game to end up looking like this. and I've done a bit of research and apparently even thought the game was rushed or something by the company and mistakenly sent out the prototype version. The game that killed atari's rep and still to this present day is ET.

[PSspecialist]

omg they couldn't even get the maze right! lazy bastards.

[Vivoenpuertorico]

Definitly it looks better on the Atari 5200!!!

[TheBostoko]

Pac man um clássico

[robertmare1]

el pacman pa malo, igualque el E.T.

[evilbeaver181]

Looks quite good. When does it come out?

[EntropicMisanthropic]

Jesus, I had no idea it was so bad. Almost unplayable and looks like dogshit.

[anas7896]

thanks to this the monsters became ghost

[MyNameIsMcBad]

One word, ouch.

[matchbox555]

better than battlefield 3 watch?v=2zw8SmsovJc

[cescogotta]

If you want to Buy an original PAC-MAN for Atari 2600 take a look to "MONDO ATARI"... the address URL is "mondoatari . altervista . org"

[cescogotta]

:)

[cauffin]

I thought ET was the worst...

[ChaffyCougar]

This is some real pacman!

[Megaarrowshot]

Yea this version SUCKED arcade was muchmuchmuch better

[CptQuestionMark]

The arcade version was better.

[baone91]

cant believe i played this for hours, untill i saw the 5200 version then i said this is like the arcades back in 1982.

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[TROLLyourWIFEandKIDS]

THIS GAME IS AMAZING SCREW YOU BASTARDS I FUCKING LOVE PIKMAN SUCK MY BONERS LOVERS BITCH PEACE HOMZ

[fernandogomezcastill]

It`s The Pirated Version Of CHOMP

[coolway456]

suck horible glitches horaborl

[Hologhoul]

I personally don't know anyone who recalls this modern view of a "bad Pac-Man" game - we all loved this. We didn't expect it to replicate the arcade version, but the gameplay was great and the whole thing fun. Seems to be a case of perpetual myth on this issue. I recall this as being a highly popular VCS game, in the UK; was it different elsewhere perhaps??

[iMushyRoms]

this has better graphics than ps3!

[ACluelessKid]

It doesn't look too bad honestly. It's just a glitchy, inferior, version of Pac-Man.

[Weegee9005]

Bah. I don't think my computer can run this.

[dissturbbed]

AWESOME...you cant beat the classics

[ronharshdotcom]

I remember playing this as a kid, I don't really think it was bad @ all. Hell we used to play it for hours at a time! Even today it is still one of the defining games of my childhood, I love it!

[GREATGOOGOLYMOOGOLY]

R.I.P. Headphone Users.

[bezaldo7]

MW3 has the same graphics!

[MikeTeaVea]

I always thought the hate for this game was a bit unfounded. If they had released it under a different name, everyone would have said it was a blatant rip-off. But call it Pac-Man and everyone says that it is nothing like Pac-Man. It's nice to see some love for this game for once.

[NakedCreep]

@MikeTeaVea Wasn't this game released in beta-form and was just an unpolished test demo that Atari had just decided to release early to catch up with the holidays?

[gothicparadise97]

theres nothing wrong with this game in my opinion, apart from the music

[CadillacL]

Pac-Man was THE game wasn't it?? Played this many hours as a kid :)

[hawkeye448]

Problem is, we're quick to criticise 2600 Pac Man in comparison to the coin op.but compared to average 2600 games, it simply was one of the finest carts you could buy. For the most part games for the 2600 were terrible.

[poopskinTheLiar]

This could have been decent if they hadn't pushed for a holiday release and actually gave the developers time to refine the port.

[BLEACHSONIC1999]

wow...

just to think that back then these games were the shit...

nowadays, they ARE shit..

[KeirTanaka]

I technically been searchin' for this video right here for God know how long just for the sound f/x at 0:42! That's one old school sound back in my collection!

[NeverwinterKnight77]

Holy crap, my ears are bleeding. Ack. I heard that the port was bad, but nobody warned me about the sound effects.

[youraftermyrobotbee]

GHOST SEIZURES GHOST SEIZURES GHOST SEIZURES

[lordoid]

Endless days sitting in front of my crappy black & white TV regardless the sun was shining outside. Mom went crazy...Ahhh the 80's :)

[degreenfreak]

The fuck is with the ghost.

[hawkeye448]

Well it was either this or the variety of handheld pac-puck-puk-pock man games they released. Compared to this they WERE crap. At least 2600 has a decent maze.

I got a great deal of pleasure out of 2600 pac man as a kid. Frequently zeroed the score board after 3 hours play and still went back for more. Criticising it because it wasnt like its big daddy in the arcade was not an option

That said, Ms Pac Man for the 2600 seemed to cope with 4 ghosts on screen just fine.

[blaezisghey]

Can't see shit, cap'n

[ocomi231]

thats just sad...in a good way!

[chism26]

Pacman was better then Missle comand

[chism26]

Actluey it was hi teck mjislove54life for home video gameing

[chism26]

at the time not mutch else to play on the younins would think that way

[chism26]

the game Caboom was crap

[AngelGabriel253]

Atari Sound effects make me want to blow my fucking brains out.

[kape1975]

62 born yesterday

[NASCARFAN160]

LOL!!! What is, the Superman 64 of the 80s?!

[Lunataari]

*cries*

[mitalca35]

As The Angry Video Game Nerd would say, this game's taking an 8-bit shit.

[MJisLove4life]

I do not like this version of pacman because it looks like the ghost are having a seizure.But don't get me wrong this was high tech during 1983 although i was not born. And i have played pacman before.

[nottheduck1]

@MJisLove4life It was barely hi tech in 1981; by 1983 it was shit.

[MJisLove4life]

@nottheduck1 Well excuse me shit i think it was high tech

[nottheduck1]

@MJisLove4life No worries. I have many atari 2600 games from 1983 like ploe position, joust, Tapper, Bump and jump, and Jungle Hunt to name a few. They were high tech for there time. You must be young.

[MJisLove4life]

@nottheduck1 Yes i am young and i believe what you said about how high tech pole position etc is.

[thegreatbrendini888]

that ghost has some serious issues.. lol!

[Gagonic]

It's funny, because this game was actually a huge technical achievement, even though it sucked.

[PAULLONDEN]

@Gagonic It sucked (with hindsight)..but we all played it,till it came out of our noses.

It was the nearest thing to the actual arcade,Atari made amends with Ms, Pacman though.

[Thrillcekr]

The real arcade version of the game was great. I was stunned when Atari came out with their version and totally butchered it up.

[its4it]

I remember some friends of mine had this game and at the time I thought it was awesome, but after the arcade version, the Atari version is very ordinary. I still like the sound effects when Pacman chomps a power pellet and when the ghost monsters chomp him though.

[Sisco291]

omg pac man for the atari looks bad he just barely changes direchon

[jjjd12346]

i am disapoint

[lightningbolt99999]

look at that ghost jerking around! If I was pacman, I would've just stopped him and said, "u mad bro?"

[MuzikIsEverything1]

I had earphones in when the game started.....

[zoniclol12]

*NENENENE* DONG DONG DONG DONG DONGDONG DONG DONG DONG DONG DONG DONG DONG DONG DONG DONG DONG DONG DONG DONG DONG DONG DONG DONG DONG *turun* CHEN CHEN CHEN DONG DONG CHENG CHENG DONG DONG DONG DONG DONG DONG DONG DONG *turun* DONG *tiun* DONG DONG DONG DONG.

Sound of the Game.

[luisfsd1009]

@zoniclol12 puplsupupululi (death)

[adamkatt]

As remember it pac man on the atari never faced more than one direction/

[MrCorporalTunnel]

It sounds like Pac-Man is eating rubber bands when he's eating the dots which actually look more like dashes and when he eats ghosts, it sounds like "Butt-Wipe, Butt-Wipe, Butt-Wipe" and that's about all this cartridge was good for.

[gjc82071]

Respond to this video...

[gjc82071]

Butt-Wipe, LOL!. This was just total greed & arrogance on the part of Atari. Due to the games popularity & their monopoly on console port rights, they thought they could release ANY POS with a pacman label. Hell, even if they would have just/only got the colors right, people would have been a little more satisfied. Or if the maze was a bit more pacman'ish, it would have been cooler. It's almost as if there was a bet in the Atari office, on who could make the worst version, then released it!

[MrCorporalTunnel]

Worst.Game.Ever.

[23amendoza]

My ears!

[Whoaman555]

What the fuck is up with the fucking ghosts?

[dimomarg]

@Whoaman555 the atari 2600 couldn't handle displaying all 4 ghosts at a time so...

[metalmaiden999]

insead of blaming pacman for the videogame crash people should blame E.T. bcuz that game was really really horrible

[gjc82071]

@metalmaiden999 It was a combination of the 2, but besides those, it was everybody & his brother (even Purina Pet Food Co. had a video game division) putting out & flooding the market with overpriced garbage. THAT's what did it.

[mp2611]

Give the composer a goddamn Grammy.

[EastCoastDude99]

Awesome intro music.

The people calling this game crap are just idiots. This game was great! I had loads of f