@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. :)
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!!!!!!
@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. :)
sackmahboi 4 days ago
What.........The...,.................F!
setsers1 1 month ago
The 2600 graphics are so bad Pac Man is a crooked diamond.
brettknoss 2 months ago
@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.
Beltzer0072 3 months ago
there was a reason they didn't show the actual graphics in the commercial....
Smardaz 3 months ago
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!!!!!!
lutzdify 4 months ago
@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 4 months ago
...and then comes the GTA Vice City commercial...
HONEYKONEKO 5 months ago
"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!"
Watcher3223 7 months ago
THAT WAS AMAZING...The lyrics were worse than Friday's, but still! I miss games like this...
HollowDestruction 9 months ago