showing 4 games
| name | publisher(developer) | year arrow_downward | description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rally-X | Namco;Bally Midway (Namco) | 1980 | In Rally-X, you drive your car around a maze that takes up about eight screens while trying to pick up ten flags and avoid enemy cars. You have a radar that doesn't shape the maze but tells you where the cars and flags are, and you also have a fuel gauge depleted by time and by smokescreens you can leave behind that stall the other cars for a bit. | labelimagesubject |
| Pac-Man | Namco;Midway (Namco) | 1980 | Pac-Man, originally called Puck Man in Japan, is a 1980 maze action video game developed and released by Namco for arcades. In North America, the game was released by Midway Manufacturing as part of its licensing agreement with Namco America. The player controls Pac-Man, who must eat all the dots inside an enclosed maze while avoiding four colored ghosts. Eating large flashing dots called "Power Pellets" causes the ghosts to temporarily turn blue, allowing Pac-Man to eat them for bonus points. Game development began in early 1979, directed by Toru Iwatani with a nine-man team. Iwatani wanted to create a game that could appeal to women as well as men, because most video games of the time had themes of war or sports. Although the inspiration for the Pac-Man character was the image of a pizza with a slice removed, Iwatani has said he rounded out the Japanese character for mouth, kuchi (Japanese: 口). The in-game characters were made to be cute and colorful to appeal to younger players. The original Japanese title of Puck Man was derived from the Japanese phrase paku paku taberu, which refers to gobbling something up; the title was changed to Pac-Man for the North American release.***First game to sell over 100,000 units in the States alone! Also the first major commercialized gaming icon, the little guy with a big mouth. What more needs to be said? Who doesn't know Pac-Man? | labelimagesubject |
| New Rally-X | Namco | 1981 | New Rally-X™, the sequel to Rally-X, is an arcade classic that was released in 1981. It features new courses and adjustments to the enemy cars, improving the overall game balance, as well as new graphics and background music. Flags: Collect all the flags while avoiding enemy cars with new features such as the Lucky Flag, which awards you points depending on your remaining fuel. Specials: Collect the Special Flag to double the points of all remaining flags. | labelimagesubject |
| Pac-Man Plus | Bally Midway | 1982 | labelimageminimize |
