Pac-Land (TG16) Playthrough - NintendoComplete
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Published 2017-02-18
The game features 32 unique levels before showing the ending. It then loops at a harder difficulty level - I show entire first loop, and the the first level of the second loop at the very end.
Pac-Land is an absolutely superb port of the 1984 arcade title (that was, in turn based on the Hanna-Barbera cartoon) - especially considering that it's playing on a system from 1987. Save for a few item placements and a bit of background detail, it's virtually arcade-perfect. It's also quite a unique title - unlike all the previous games in the series, Pac-Land is a platformer, but he still has to avoid the ghosts (or eat them after getting a pellet), collect fruit, and generally run like hell from all the threats constantly coming at him.
It's brilliant platforming, and it's extremely difficult. For me, though, that's what makes it so great. It's never a push over, but it always feels like you can do it with just a little bit more practice. I'd recommend this to anyone that enjoys the 80s arcade classics, and especially this version. It's easily the best of all of the ports the game received through the 80s/early 90s.
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All Comments (21)
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I like how a lot of 8-bit graphics makes the characters cute.
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I remember when this came out in the arcades. Yes it looks simple now but when people found you could push stuff to get secrets it was truly magical. I think it took a couple of days until someone realised you could push right repeatedly to get across the pools :). Ahh the joys of game conversions with no instructions
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I got my Turbo back in like '97 from a pawn shop I was working at. They practically gave it to me, as retro gaming wasn't the thing it is now back then. It came with this little gem of a game (with about a dozen other games as well). I'd never seen the arcade game as a kid, though, and the fact that it used the theme from the Pac-Man cartoon was just too great. Never did play it all the way through, though. I was too busy with the first Phantasy Star that summer to bother...which I also got from that pawn shop. Good times.
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The TurboGrafx version of Pac-Land is easily the best of the 8/16-bit ports of the awesomely addictive arcade title. It's extremely difficult, but you'll find yourself coming back to it again and again.
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This game when it first came out it was one of the First Platoforming Games, why it so underrated? Oh, Super Mario Bros came out 5 mothns after this came out on arcade.
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My brother almost annoyed me to death when my cousin and I were playing this game. He claimed everything in it was some kind of drug reference - the levels being called "trips", Pac-Man was high on crack, and the called the fairy queen "the Marijuana Fairy". Makes me wonder if he was under the influence of anything. Besides Non-functioning Jerkism.
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Pac land est le jeu base sur la serie animee de 1982 produite par hanna barbera ! On y retrouve tout: les musiques, les personnages...! Ici on a un jeu bien different d'un pac man classique , de la plate forme au lieu des labyrinthes avec ses fantômes ! C'est d'ailleurs la premiere fois que la celebre mascotte de namco apparaissait dans ce type de jeu!
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This game beat SMB 1 to the side scrolling punch, and unlike SMB 1 has stages that also scroll to the left.
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This is one of the best arcade ports out there
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also 19:47 so that is what happens when the time meter runs out: sue gets a speed boost
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Pac-Man Is Back In Pac-Land For Your Turbografx 16 From Namco! Ghosts Can Run, But They Can't Hide From Pac-Man!
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I can’t believe this inspired the 80’s Pac-Man Cartoon.
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This game looks fantastic, and looks extremely hard, i will play!!!
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Wow, this IS a good port! Did the arcade version also have an ending? I never got far enough to find out.
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DOOOH! I MUST HAVE THOSE POWER PELLETS, GO FIND ME THE POWER PELLET FOREST!
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Pac-Land: The game with a built-in Infinite Jumping cheat!
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Ghost monsters: ppppppppac power!
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I think this game has such a feelgood vibe about it
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I owned this game and I remember getting killed by the small ghosts not getting points from them! This game was hard as hell.
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Wow, this machine is perfect for Pac-Land
