Jr. Pac Man Atari 2600 Review

[KurtKokaine1]

Hmm, this port looks pretty fun (for an Atari game), but it makes me wonder how well the actual arcade version played, as I just never seen an arcade game of Jr. Pac Man, ever. And I was part of the arcade generation, so that's kinda weird.

[jsr1978]

I like it very much.

[charlestonchewy]

"The Atari 2600 version was crap!"- You ain't lying.

[EastCoastDude99]

The larger pellets are a result of not going after the Toys and food such as the bicycle or the rootbeer. If the those icons reach your power pellets, it burns one of them up into a little fire ball. This game actually requires you to go after them where on Ms. Pacman they are simply for points.

[silenceofthehills]

If only Ms.Pac Man was the way of the original port. : (

[TheSkitso13]

"inspire" you to vomit. LOL

[RedH0plite]

Awesome game! Playing right now!

[zelonzelon]

Aside from the fast speed, I'm pretty impressed by this port. The ghosts don't flicker until they're all on the screen and most importantly their eyes move in the direction they are headed - the only Pac game on 2600 where they do this. The toys make the dots fatter and slow Jr. down, Jr's animations are pretty much identical to the arcade version. The music and sound effects are pretty darn close too. The hackers who made Pac-Man arcade should've used this as a base

[EastCoastDude99]

one of the last Atari games I ever bought before I moved on to Sega and Nintendo. Great times.  I still love Atari.

[katsujinken10]

I'm impressed they could get background scrolling on the 2600

[PuksisKissa]

Dear Aqualung, are you incorporated with Screwattack?

[MattTheSaiyan]

The Atari 2600 is cool, some people are still making new games for it today....including, yes, a few "Pac-Man" rip-offs!

[EastCoastDude99]

Loved this game, one of the 2600's better games. (still liked Enduro the best though)

[FleshMan7063]

epic intro is epic

[kingshott1]

omg the 8-bit or whatever version of that song sounds amazing! lol. is it actually from a game? also what song is it? i cant remember lol

[MrHossCartwright]

Just bought this game today at a thrift shop for $3.50.

[Pittip2]

why cant i stop watching this guy??

[emperorkang]

I used to own this game! great video!

[TheAbsintheReviewNet]

My mom bought this game for me and my brother at a store closing sale probably around 1989/1990 for $2.00. As someone who has always loved fast-paced arcade games, I played this game to death and it is still my favourite PM game of all time.:) There are some cool little touches like the larger-size pellets making a different SFX and giving you more points.

I had a short little Pac Man paperback book, too. He was married to Ms. Pac Man and they of course had their son, Jr.:)

[polaris1966]

Great review. Thumbs up..

[Loader2K1]

Holy shit, I had this game around 1987 or 1988! While I had moved on to NES at the time, I did play the fuck out of this game when I still had an Atari 2600.

[20119466]

mr pac man and ms pac man hand sex in the ass

[nooblet911]

so ms pac man shited pac man jr out of her butt?

lulz

[christo930]

The bigger dots that slow you down aren't random. They get created by the toy passing over the dot. If you don't get the toy in time, it will go to one of your power pellets and explode, destroying the power pellet. Otherwise, a great review.

[FelixMeow32]

i loved this game as a kid

[Doom2Guy]

The larger pallets are made by the toys if they float over them, in case you didn't know

They also destroy power pellets they float over them in the arcade version, but I don't know if that happens in this version, I don't own it (yet)

[EvanG679]

how did mr and ms.pacman have sex?????

[Tomsthumb]

Practice!

[edsucksfredrocks]

Very quickly

[WCWite]

I wish that the cartidge picture wasn't in black and white, kinda discourages me from buying it.

[cainster]

I remember this one well from growing up in the 80s. I played it when I was like 10. If I had a time machine, one of the first things I would do would be to go back and play this again with myself.

[blackcat211222]

OMG, this the first game i've seen you put an A on so far!!!

[AgentDudeman]

pitfall.

[southrodney]

Jr. Pacman was the first pacman game I ever played. They had the arcade version in my dentist waiting room. I was so disappointed when I played pacman for the first time lol. I didn't how there was only one tiny maze.

[BattleGolferYui]

The hat on Jr.'s head is called a "propeller beanie". Anyway, great review! And I TOTALLY agree with the overall rating. The only thing I failed to hear was about the animation. But, then again, they saw it. XP

[eyamseryath]

My favorite Pac-man game was Baby Pac-man because it had that clever little pinball game attached.

[Movyguru1]

Yeah the first pac-man was a piece of shit! The game was actually a prototype and wasnt supposed to be released....oops

[harleykman]

Pac-man 2600 - good if you pretend it's "crazy chase" or some other clone

Ms. Pac-Man - brightly colored but waaaaaay too easy. Also the mazes are wrong. Nowhere near accurate to the arcade.

Jr. Pac-Man - Arcade accurate. They match in difficulty and gameplay.

[oldscool75]

Nice review, Just started watching your channel & I enjoy it alot!!! PEACE

[dbratboy92]

you need some new nes game reviews

[djriverwind1200]

"inspire you to vomit", thats funny hahaha

[phatmanxxxl]

Good review! I never heard of PM Jr. until now

[LyricDan86]

Where did you have all the games and the

Gamingstations?^^

[SpaceWars2025]

Great review! as usual!

[vergildabbs]

Another great review!!

[therealhardrock]

Actually, Ms. Pac-Man was also made by Midway without Namco's permission, but later Namco took over distribution of it.

[Noyjeetut]

Good one.

[soulcitysigma]

i didn't know any 2600 games had come out as late as 87

[AqualungGameReviews]

Some came out even later. I think the last one was in 1990.

[KrackosStorm]

d*mn did you know that in japan the NES wasn't discontinued untill the 2000s

[thenamecolinwastaken]

I think it was Secret Quest in the U.S., which has a copyright of 1989. I think Sentinel was released in Europe in 1990.

Save Mary may list 1990 as it's release date on the Flashback 2, I'm not sure, but it wasn't ever released anyway, although Axlon did finish it.

[GodBlessedVideo]

@AqualungGameReviews wrong, the last one was in 2008, it was supposed to be released in 1983, but due to some problems "Actionauts" came out in 2008 as a special collectors game

[TalkinXbox]

@AqualungGameReviews The 2600 was officially retired in 1992.

[IvoryGecko1993]

@AqualungGameReviews The Atari 2600 lasted until 1992.

[KilleRotom]

@AqualungGameReviews The last game released by atari for the 2600 was Klax

It was only released in PAL format although there exists NTSC prototypes(I think 10 of 'em)

And the last third party game released was Acid drop (1992)

[KilleRotom]

@AqualungGameReviews And I forgot to mention that Klax was released in 1990

[pecklepants02]

@AqualungGameReviews then there was halo 2600 in 2008 i think

[Netscape128]

@AqualungGameReviews 2008, with Actionauts.

[linusspacehead]

Double Dragon came out pretty late even when the NES came out.

[harleykman]

Most of the games (like Jr. Pac-Man) released in the late 80s have a Copyright date of 1984. That's because they were originally scheduled to release that year, but Tramel took-over and declared "Atari is no longer a game company".

Then in 1986 he changed his mind because he needed some fast cash, so out came all the games that had been stagnating in warehouses.

[gamesDAMNED]

@soulcitysigma This game, and a bunch of others, were actually made in 1984, just around the time of the videogame crash, when Warner sold Atari's domestic side to the Tramiels. They shelved all the video game consoles for several years while focusing on the home computers, eventually changing their minds several years after the NES hit. So we got these fantastic "red label" 2600 games in 1987, which were some of the console's best games - Jr. Pac, Midnight Magic, Solaris, Radar Lock, etc.

[Bittergamer1886]

@soulcitysigma Some as late as 1990.

[AmbulanceProductions]

Great review, I say!

[ThermostatAgreeable]

Thanks for explaining pac man for me.

That games always be too complicated for me to fully grasp.

[HaruhiIzumi]

ha ha, "inspire you to vomit" :-) Great review!

[sinistermoon]

I wish my real Atari 2600 has as clear as a picture as the emulator footage used in this video. Pac-Man games are a bit harder to capture properly due to the high flicker rate. The maximum amount of frames will make it so you can see all the ghosts properly.

[nevar00]

The only thing that would make me feel sick are those ghosts jumping around, ugh.

[braineaterknux]

Great review.

[TheNintendoMaster03]

I played this at an arcade once and was surprised how big the mazes were even though I couldn't stand the difficulty.

[ZeldaGameGod]

nice review.

this looks like an awesome pacman game. maybe i'll get to try it out some time cuz i love pacman.

[ScrewAttackEurope]

Was that the final Pac Man game on the 2600?

[AqualungGameReviews]

Yes sir.

[ScrewAttackEurope]

Ah, I'm surprised that Atari didn't do a remake of the original pac-man though, hell even Coleco did that with Donkey Kong.

But Pac and Pal seems a bit of a no-show on consoles amirite?

[superpatch13]

cool, i didnt know jr pacman had his own game

[timsalmons1982]

Great review. I had forgotten about that there was Jr. Pac Man game but it came back to me when I saw the cartridge sticker.

[ChibiFighter]

Wow this actually looks pretty good. Nice grade Aqualung and good review.

[SDvsRaw2008Fan]

Awesome!