Pac-Man Vs

May 2003 saw the latest E3 (Electronic Entertainment Expo) arrive, complete with the promise of huge announcements from Nintendo. So imagine the dismay of several gamers when the large unveiling from

 

Well no, it has certainly not. The game looks like it must have taken about a week at the most to churn out and it was a complete joke (an unfunny one at that) to have this as the main attraction of the E3 line-up. The GBA is more than capable of representing the exact layout of the old 1980 arcade Pac-Man mazes, doing so without even breaking into a mild sweat. Then we have the GameCube updates of the mazes included, all of which come with their own special styling for each stage and contain 3D renderings of the ghosts and Pac-Man himself, all moving around at an expected locked-down 60 frames per second.

However this is all quite disappointing, since some proper touch-ups could have been made overall on both systems. Perhaps since Nintendo realised the game would not sell alone it decided that Pac Man Vs did not warrant the extra time and attention. A shame, a real shame...

Wacka wacka wacka wacka...and that is about it for Pac Man, right? Not this time around, however. Nintendo has seen fit to drag Charles Martinet into the fray in order to provide a Mario voice over the top, just so that you definitely realise that this is not a Namco rehash, but a Nintendo re-invention (despite those two things being exactly the same in essence).

Therefore, amongst the usual basic (and that is using the word to its full extent

 

What happens when one of the world's most talented game producers gets bored? He decides to whip up a quick remake of someone else's game! Shigeru Miyamoto turned the single-player arcade Pac-Man into a 'Connectivity Exclusive' four-player title, presented it to Namco for feedback and permission to continue with the project and the end result is here today

 

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