Atari 2600 - Pac-Man - Animated TV Commercial - Atari 2600

[setsers1]

What.........The...,..........­.......F!

[brettknoss]

The 2600 graphics are so bad Pac Man is a crooked diamond.

[Smardaz]

there was a reason they didn't show the actual graphics in the commercial....

[lutzdify]

The main reason WHY pac-man for the atari 2600 was so flicker-y when it came to mutliple ghost sprites as well as very limited animation was not because pac-man on the 2600 was impossible, it was because the game wasn't EVEN HALF FINISHED when the managers at atari decided to released it early!!!!!!

[Beltzer0072]

@lutzdify Have you ever seen "A Better Pac Man" on Atari Age? Its a hack of Mrs. Pacman but its exactly what this game should have been.

[sackmahboi]

@lutzdify I read on Wikipedia that the original Pac-Man's cartridge had only half as much RAM as its follow up games. They may have done it to speed up the 5-week production time. I have read about these kinds of things with game carts limiting the RAM amount in earlier installments, like the first Sonic game had 8 bits of RAM, versus maybe double in Sonic 3 without the Sonic and Knuckles expantion cart. Thought I''d share that with all of you. :)

[HONEYKONEKO]

...and then comes the GTA Vice City commercial...

[Watcher3223]

@HONEYKONEKO

And, to top it off, the "Pac-Man" commercial was false advertising.

The actual 2600 game looks nothing like what's shown on the commercial.

[Watcher3223]

"It's the new video computer game everyone's talking about."

They sure were, except the comments were less than flattering.

"This is what I spent my allowance money on? This is nothing like the arcade game.  THIS SUCKS!"

[HollowDestruction]

THAT WAS AMAZING...The lyrics were worse than Friday's, but still! I miss games like this...

[WhiteTriceratops]

And people today hold this game in infamy.