Bandai - Packri Monster - Tabletop 1981 - VFD Display

Bandai's Pac Man clone. (Looks like Pack Monster is the French version).

A very nice pacman clone. Same game as Hungry Monster and Ogre Eater. Between every 2 screens, you even get a short pacman style 'Act'. . If you go into the tunnel (backdoor) and then push up or down, you can stay there and hide - the ghosts will never enter!

Also licensed to Radio Shack in the US as Hungry Monster and Radio Shack in foreign markets and Ogre Eater.

Links:

http://www.handheldmuseum.com/Bandai/Packri.htm
http://www.miniarcade.com/bandai/packri.htm

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• bandai
• packri
• monster
• tabletop
• 1981
• VFD
• handheld

[MrLordPage]

i have a Packri Monster!

How much is this for today?

[vin02703]

I had this new in 1984 but as a stupid kid plugged an AC adapter that had too high of a voltage and burned it out. I was bummed.

[RomanticLinguaphilia]

Hard to play with camera in other hand :-) but you did better than I would have :-D

[nhf7170]

My little sister had this.

[gjc82071]

Sweet! I wish I had a few dozen of these late 70's thru early 80's battery-op hand helds. Barring that, @ least there are simulators/emulators. Granted they aren't as cool as the real thing, but they are better than nothing. I have over 100 "game & watch" simulators. BTW, Pac Monster sort of reminds me of TOMY Pacman. BTW, this is "Packri",. It's identical case/game play to Pac Monster, Hey myoldmac, do you have any more hand helds or vintage consoles, PCs, etc? Do you use emulators?

[proc5454]

awesome. ive got mine right here next to me...

[Redline748]

I had this, was great but the joystick broke when somebody stood on it :( was better than the official pacman handheld in my opinion

[themaritimeman]

This game was also made under the name Gobble Man.

[themaritimeman]

That's really cool! You gotta love VFD-based games! So the maze is just printed on the lens?