Pac-Land | Versions Comparison | Arcade, NES, C64, CPC, Amiga, Atari ST, TurboGrafx-16, MSX and more 

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The existence of Churches in Pac-Land implies that there was a Pac-Jesus, who died for the Pac-People's sins.

All these years and I didn't know about the hydrant hat!

It feels like they didn't even try with the nes version

Remember people, this came out almost a year, before Super Mario Bros.

Poor ghosts, just trying to get to work and then Pacman shows up.

Everybody gangsta till the nes port looks like garbage for once

Interesting: Some versions reproduced the scrolling of the original, even down to the parallax scrolling. But other versions just settled for a "slideshow" approach.

This could have made for a fantastic port on the Atari 7800. Early 8-bit era platformer, I'm stunned it didn't happen. Pre-Super Mario Bros. (1984) Homebrew idea!

I remember playing the NES version. It was pretty... Ugly.

And on the seventh day Pac-Man rested, for it was Break Time.

I remember playing the arcade version. But also playing it on the C64. That wasn’t a bad conversion. Such an underrated game.

The Turbo grafx 16 version is gotta be hands down the best port ever

Update this to include the Arcade Archives and Pac-Man Museum+ versions. Although both versions are virtually identical to the original arcade versions, there are two minor changes that some may not notice. Ms. Pac-Man and Baby Pac-Man were both replaced by Pac-Mom and Pac-Sis. This is because of Bandai Namco's ongoing dispute with AtGames for the Ms. Pac-Man trademark

Imagine assuming the game is bad just because of the Smash Bros stage...

I didn't know the NES version, that was... Unexpected ! I also didn't remember the Amstrad CPC version, which looks quite good, had no scrolling, totally ruining it. I think I played it a couple of times on some compilation but I never really liked this game. It was probably great for the short time before Super Mario Bros appeared.

Lynx pulled off the scrolling background!! Impressive machine for the time. Love the Lynx!

Little bit of trivia: the US version of Pac-Land was modeled after the "Pac Man" cartoon at the time (which is why Chomp-Chomp the dog is in the opening screen, US Pac Man's nose is shorter than JP Pac Man, and why the Pac Family have hair/blue bow (US Baby Pac)--JP Ms. Pac Man has no hair, and JP Baby Pac is female with red bow). Also, JP Pac-Land has an ending, US Pac-Land keeps cycling through levels.

To be honest, nes version could've been way better

The NEC PC-800 even has parallax scrolling, I'm surprised! Also the Atari Lynx has, but that's a different thing, it's a quite powerful and 16bit system...

I friggin love the title screen theme in the lynx version

My tip for the Famicom version is that you gotta have two controllers plugged in. Push start on the first player controller, and use the second one to play.

i dont quite understand the unanimous hatred for the famicom/nes port. i think it's main problem is rly just the color which is kinda unavoidable due the the famicom's hardware as evident in a lot of namcot's other ports and a lot of famicom games at the time that are ports of similar, colorful arcade games. i think making pac man small was a good call too cause if u notice that the other 8bit ports have pac mans head big but with practically no legs and waddling around on lil feet while the famicom port has him small but still with legs like the arcade. i think the game also controls pretty great and some of the graphics are pretty nice(i like the simplicity of the houses and the blue and green hills in the bridge levels) but i also agree that they couldve made a better port especially with things they cut out like the scene of the fairy giving u the boots and removing pac man's family and the door to the fairy land -_- i think its a pretty decent port considering how early it came out and that it obviously cant compete with the pc engine port, it looks different enough and has its own lil charm. like compare it to the port of yokai dochuki on famicom and pc engine where both look similar to the arcade but because of that there's like no reason to even ever buy the famicom port if u have the pc engine since its inferior in every way since its a direct imitation of something that the pc engine can and does way better.

The best version of Pac-Land - PC Engine/TurboGrafx 16

IMO x68000 & Lynx both versions with parallax scrolling, TurboGrafx16 third.

Great video but no jumping at the end of the level for bonus points.......?

Some of the ports were criminal mind, I remember firing it up on my amstrad as it was one of my fave arcades as a kid, and, yeah, loaded it up, had a play, CTRL+SHIFT+ESC within a minute I think, if that long... Never played it again! Hats off to the TurboGrafx-16, they nailed it, and I still play it via that emulator in OpenEmu! :)

I didn't know there was a nes version until one week ago when they gave me a bootleg nes

I didn't realize they changed pac man for the US version to match the cartoon...

The TurboGrafx-16 has the BEST translation to the original arcade port ever. The only differences is how the UI is placed and the color palette it uses.

PacLand in NAMCO MUSEUM VOL 4 version is underrated. Kasumi Toyama ever scored 568980pts in that game and reached Round 79.

As usual Amstrad and MSX owners get shafted once again.

Nintendo had the most accurate music for the actual tv show

Does anyone know if you can get the new hat by pushing the hydrant on the 8-bit computer versions? I played the speccy one, and I had no idea that you could get that item

Turbografx 16 is my favorite game, i'm pulling the first hydra and blue hat appeared. If i'm playing Pac-Man 2 on SNES, it Will be gonna be easy

操作方法独特すぎる 後年のスーパーマリオが横スクの操作の基準になったからだろうけど そんなスーパーマリオ作ったきっかけの1つの噂としてパックランド見てミヤホン氏が横スクアクション面白いね作りたいってなったとかって…どこかで見聞きしたような…

It's crazy how we think of these older arcade games to be in the same category of the 8-bit consoles, but watching the NES footage shows how arcade games really blew them out of the water in terms of processing but also look.

Both the US & JP Arcade and Playstation versions for me. They're truly equal to each other.

The Japanese (Arcade) version of Pac - Land is in my opinion MUCH BETTER

2:12 Namcot

Pretty fascinating! 👍🏻

My Favorite Version Turbograf x-16

And the 3 worst versions of Pac-Land are: 3: NES 2:02 2: ZX Spectrum 9:10 1: MSX 10:39

Someday, Pac-Land ought to get a sequel!

Great video! Even the ZX Spectrum has a nice version of this game.

1. Arcade: It's perfect as always. Pacman's face is cute, especially at the end. He has little nose and a little red hat. 2. Arcade (Japan): Pacman's face is not that cute. He has big nose and a bit larger brownish hat. I prefer the non Japan version. 3. Sharp: Very good, it's almost identical to the Arcade version except the picture is narrower and Pacman has big nose. (which I don't like, but it's not a big problem) 4. Playstation: It's like the Sharp version, but the picture size (also the resolution?) is smaller. But, Pacman has little nose. 5. TurboGrafix: Really good, but it's not that good like the previous versions. The background has simplier graphics. The game area is zoomed. 6. Atari: The scroll is not really good, the enemy sprites are different, the audio is ok. Pacman sometimes smiles. It's better than the Amiga version, which is rare! 7. Amiga: The scroll here is also not really good, (bad for an Amiga), the graphics are identical to the Atari version. The audio is not the real one, but it's ok. Pacman has only one face, which looks angry. 8. C64: Very nice for this machine. Pacman has face expressions in the different situations. The sound could have been better. 9. NES: It's good. One of the smoothest scroll. But, Pacman's face is always angry. 10. NEC: Less colors would have been better. The graphics are a bit ugly this way. Pacman looks not really kind. 11. Amstrad: No scroll. (better off without that) The sounds are not any good. The graphics are ok, a bit dark though. 12. Atari Lynx: It has a too low resolution and because of this, the graphics are a bit ugly. I think the developers did their best though. It's not that bad, if you can stand this pixel face.. :) 13. MSX: It's like the Spectrum version, but somehow it's better. 14. Spectrum: Usually the worst version. But, it's not that bad game on this machine.

Your channel is amazing

PC Versions: NEC PC-8001mkll SR (1985) 2:55 C64 (1988) 3:35 Amstrad CPC (1988) 4:40 Amiga (1989) 6:13 Atari ST (1989) 7:09 ZX Spectrum (1989) 9:10 MSX (1989) 10:39 Sharp X68000 (1994) 13:33

Unlike any other game Namco has made, I think the NES version looks better than the arcade version.

I love pacland!

I had a NEC PC-8001mk2SR and this "Shift keys-breaking" game (5-inch FD edition).

I met one of the guys who developed the Amiga version a couple of years back. He was stacking shelves in Tesco.

X68000, Psx and PC Engine are pretty good.Amiga hardware wise could have done much much better (jerky scrolling)

Why is Pac-Man on C64, Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum, and MSX looks like Humpty Dumpty?

Pac land arcade american looks more like in Hanna Barbera's Pac man

Tier List: S: Arcade (US), TG16, Atari Lynx, Sharp X68000, PS1 A: Amiga, Atari ST, B: Arcade (JP), Commodore 64 C: NEC PC-8001mk2 SR D: NES, Amstrad CPC F: ZX Spectrum, MSX

Did you know Pac Land had inspired Super Mario Bros

My RetroPie had the PC Engine and Atari Lynx Versions on it.

9:24 what the

Gran vídeo y curioso que la versión para Spectrum tenga la música original y con mejor sonido que máquinas superiores

My Favorite Is Sharp X68000

It was good to know that there was an atari st version as well sothat it could compeat against nintendo’s own platformer on the nes,eventrough the st was a computer but it could serve as a game console as well.

I remember playing it on the ganeboy color along with classic pac man and ms pac man but i like the game color versions and still have it

Arcade 10/10 NES 2/10 NEC 5/10 C64 6/10 CPC 6/10 Amiga 8/10 Atari ST 8/10 TurboGrafx 10/10 ZX Spectrum 3/10 MSX 3/10 Atari Lynx 6/10 Sharp 10/10 PS1 10/10

Shizuku Osaka and Kasumi Nakasu ever beaten PacLand in its Namco Museum Volume 4 version. Shizuku got much higher score. 786090pts.

Hey, at least ZX Spectrum had music

I'm glad you didn't forget about the PC-8001mk2SR version!

my favorite version is the zx spectrum

TurboGrafx-16 is the most Arcade-Accurate port we might eventually get (it also had an ending after 32 rounds wth)

On the nes/famicon version of pacland, the namco is supposed to be namco but the nes/famicon is namcot

i have played pac-land in pac-man museum + and i see what the break time signs are for now: they serve to give your finger a break from pressing the run button repeatedly and stop you from getting carpal tunnel syndrome

I always watch the arcade original footage first and then jump straight to the ZX Spectrum and then Amstrad CPC just to see the biggest difference.

Christ, that's actually kind of impressive for the Spectrum.

the Amiga version of the pacland theme literally sounds like an escape theme.

i like how this is the first game to ever use a variable walking speed so to do this they probably used control sticks instead of joysticks

Ai Miyashita ever reached Round 144 in PacLand.

A Hanna Barbera's animation into a video game! Arcade (USA/Midway): WHOA WHOA WHOA, the speed! *inserts voices* *Faster* ! *Faster* ! *of Pac-Man 2* Arcade (JP/Namco): Pac-Man eyes are correct, speed okay, Ms. Pac-Man and Baby Pac-Man it's okay! Nes: No way, 8-Bit, NO! Paint/Adobe Flash Mode! NEC PC-8001mkll SR: Glitched graphics, not smooth scroll, and CRT filter. Commodore 64: Decent conversion, it's okay with his limitations. Amstrad CPC: Literally the same as Commodore 64, but not scroll and some changes in the colors. Amiga: *WHY THIS IS WORST THAN COMMODORE 64* ?!?! Atari ST: Literally the same as Amiga, but, better music! TG16/PC Engine: Now you can call this an port! And, an Expert/Pro mode when the game is completed! ZX Spectrum (128K): Literally the same as Amstrad CPC, but worse colors and decent music. MSX: Literally the same as ZX Spectrum, with correct BPM music. Atari Lynx: An decent conversion, with good colors and music! Sharp X68000: Again, YOU can call this an port! Playstation: Literally the same as Arcade but the nose is, cutted? My favorites: Arcade, TG16/PC Engine, Sharp X68000 and PS1

What about a Pac-Land Epoch Super Cassette Vision Homebrew?

My favorite version is the Playstation

Other console ports are based on the Japanese version of the arcade game

I didn’t know that a ZXspectrum game could be actually... good!

Nice!

Worker: This game clearly won't work on the system! Owner: *I can make it work*

i love the TurboGrafx-16 music

i think the reason why each version of these arcade games are not the same as the arcade version is because the companies that made those consoles tried to make the game themselves

The Enix as in SquareEnix made a port of Pac-Land

DOOOH! I MUST HAVE THOSE POWER PELLETS! GO FINDE THE POWER PELLET FOREST!

Wow, I've never seen the X68000 version! This is the best version obviously. I grew up with the C64 version though and love it!

Love the amiga tune!

after i unlocked the pac-land stage in super smash bros. for wii U, i became curious about what the arcade pac-land is like

AWESOME

What the heck are those weird flower things in the sharp x68000 version?

やっぱPCエンジン版は当時としてはずば抜けた移植度だな！！

Pac-Land. AKA that one scrolling stage in Smash Bros.

3:46

the euro computer versions were the last games to come from quicksilva, who shut it's doors after they were released. talk about ending things with a bang.

The jp version of the arcade version is better due to it changing Pac-Mans eyes from the human like ones to the more traditional pie eyes

Imagine trying to get 80K points on the Amiga version... That sounds like a total nightmare

The Amiga version sounds like the Overthere theme from Super Paper Mario

My memory is NES only, ARCADEver is GOD.