Pac-Man & The Commodore 64 

The amount of effort in this is unreal... great work mate

I didn't know there was so many Pac-Man games on the C64. Will have to check them out!

Pacman was one game which designed perfectly, so perfectly infact it really couldn't be improved beyond its original concept. Pacman really is one game like Space invaders that will stand head and shoulders for years to come when you talk about retro as the bastions of the gaming industry. Fantastic video as always, going to check out the compilation 👍

Pac-Land stunned me at the arcades. Despite the lackluster scrolling it's still one of the best early platformers.

The way you ended the video put a smile on my face. Good gamer dad moment.

C-64 was and is my best friend.

Nice to see that Pac-man is still popular with the younger generation! 😂 Great look at all this dot munching madness in the Arcade and on the C64. Also, that compilation looks like a real labour of love with the PDF print-outs and high-score saving for all the games... lovely!

Hey B Man! Thanks for this Awesome Doco. This brought back some great memories of my childhood spent in the arcades. My favorites ard Pacland And Pacmania. Absolutely love the isometric view of Pacmania and having a jump brought in a whole new mechanic for the series. So Much Fun!!! Thanks again for all the hard work you put in just to keep us entertained. Loving the channel! YOU ROCK MATE!!! 😁

Boy you have been busy! Very informative and interesting video as always. I never knew there were C64 ports of PacMan Jnr or Super PacMan and I NEVER knew about that compilation! I will definitely check that out, thanks :)

Pac Land was one of the most played games on our C64 back in the days! Not really because of the music, gameplay or graphics.. For whatever reason - I have no idea, but both me and both my brothers and friends loved it!

I don’t know how I missed this one. I go through your older videos quite frequently and binge on your stuff quite frequently. How did I miss this one? Sweet! 👍

3:23 I remember spending hours with that atarisoft version of Pac-Man even into the 1990s even after I had an Amiga, maybe because it was so pure. Thanks for the great video

Great recap of the history of Pac-Man in arcade form and on the ol’ breadbox!

Great vid, and I agree. Ms. Pacman is my favorite classic era arcade game. I think it just did everything an arcade game of that time should do and it did it well! Loved it back in the day, and it's still one of my favs! Stands the test of time!

This video is awesome. I was heavy into the C64 in the 80s as a teen but had no idea so many versions were out there! Thanks for the walk down memory lane.

The recent Pac-Man Arcade by Arlasoft is great. They should add it to the collection. I know it's not official, but it's a perfect conversion that deserves to be included.

Also, for Pac- Man, Ms. Pac-Man, and Jr. Pac-Man, it's recommended to set the system to NTSC, as the games made for the machines here run REALLY slow on PAL systems (just like how PAL games either run with glitches, or refuse to run at all on NTSC machines here).

Not c64 related but in the mid 80`s i was given the Nelsonic Pac-Man watch as a gift and i must have played that thing to death to the point where i`d rubbed away all the direction buttons flat to the watch and the plastic strap broke. Eventually it stopped working altogether but had great times playing it over the years i had it. A boxed one cost a pretty penny now and wish i`d kept it in better condition but pacman needed to be played and boy did i play it. Anyway, a great retrospective on a pretty good track record of c64 conversions. Lovely Stuff.

Pac-Mania was pretty dang brilliant.

Great stuff again, thanks a lot Bastich! 🙏👍

Video favoloso,mi e' piaciuto molto.PAC MAN e entrato nella storia dei giochi,il C64 e' leggenda pura!

Very good compilation. Super thanks!

I downloaded Pac-Man on my C64 mini a long time ago, but apperantly it's the NTSC version which is exactally what my C64 mini is. USA where I live uses NTSC and the UK uses PAL which is what most C64 gamers in emulator mostly use.

wow now i can play all of the pacman thank you so musch you are the 64man in my book.

Top notch work from from Bastich B👍

Awesome as ever. Had never heard of Junior PacMan, thanks for the nudge.

Awesome video as always! 😁👍

Great video! Now I have to check out Mrs.Pac Man on the C64. With so many versions of a game it's more difficult to figure out which one to try out, unless you have awesome reviews like this.

Always a good day when you post a new video. :-)

I remember playing munchman on my c64. Thought it was great at the time. One of my first games I think. I have a feeling it may of called different things in different regions as looking it up dosent show much. Was a great pacman rip-off

Somehow, Ms. Pac-man was the only one I had on my C64 :)

Great video!

I only ever got a c64 to play my SSI AD&D games (love the machine though)! Still play them today through GOG. Even bought the c64 mini last year for my 6 year old grandson!

I always thought Pacland was a bit lame, as I had played Super Mario Bros on the NES prior to Pacland. Many years later I realize that Pacland came out one year before SMB. So cudos for paving the way.

My understanding is Ms. Pacman ghost AI is exactly the same as Pacman. The key difference between the two games with respect to the ghost behavior is that each game had different ways to determine the pseudo-random directions the ghost move when in their frightened state, with Ms. Pacman behavior being seemingly more random than Pacman. The average player will observe both games having the same randomness though--one would have to know & follow patterns to experience such.

You're originally from Durban, South Africa? In 12/1991 me and friend went to The Wheel shopping mall. There was a huge coin op arcade inside. I cant éxactly remember what games but I do remember there was an elaborate games cabinet for a wire frame '3D' space game. It was so very expensive to play, I could only dream and watch the rich (kids) play. I was 20 yo in 1991. I guess The Wheel in 2021 is either no-go crime area now, or run-down closed? Thanks for reminding me of Pacland, I drooled about owning this game on C64 and Amiga. There is a version of Pacman as part of Apple Arcade and it's a very nice version to play.

great video, i was disappointed pac and pal never got converted to the c64

The contrast between Pac-Man and Ms Pac-Man is interesting. You'd think that Atarisoft wouldn't go out of their way to make the C64 version look better than the Atari version, especially since at the time it was very common to have C64 ports which looked almost the same as the Atari version (Jumpman, Bruce Lee, M.U.L.E., Realm of Impossibility ...). And indeed, the C64 version of Pac-Man looks like a lazy port of the Atari 8-bit version. But Atarisoft also made a lot of games where the C64 version took advantage of the C64's different sprite capabilities. So, the C64 version of Ms Pac-Man is better than the Atari 8-bit version. As for all those 1988 games ... sigh ... I wish the game publishers realized that they could have made a lot more money with more timely home versions.

Although not available on the C64, there is another version of Pac-Man: Pac-Man Championship Edition

At least the Atari 8 bit micro version of Jr keeps scrolling. Which is good as I like it the most as my personal fave Pac.

Must be one of the most bootlegged properties in existence. Every PD compilation had a "Snack-man" or other variation.

Ah i need to get my hands on a commodore 64

Already have that Pac Man 25th anniversary on my Kung Fu Flash cartridge, its good. I discovered a few months back, .CRT image.

Great upload loving everything you are producing, very interesting as per usual between your uploads and rate my takeaway I've no time for any other channels on RU-vid, Your passion for the c64 has me playing more of that than anything else. Thank you

Ah, if only Commodore simply swapped the joystick port numbers ... So is joystick typing just one of these dirty secrets we don't talk about lest we give Atari owners something to lord over us? Anyway, interesting info about Bally Midway's unauthorized sequels! I knew about Ms Pac-Man, but it just stupidly assumed they would have learned their lesson and gotten permission for the other games. What about the bizarre videogame/pinball hybrid, Baby Pac-man? That thing was so weird. Troubleshooting and maintenance must have been an arcade operator's nightmare.

good vid just supported u

There was another Pac Man, where it was a video game AND a pinball game.

The Atarisoft titles were straight ports of the Atari 5200/400/800 versions done originally because Coleco was making Colecovision ports to Atari 2600 (fun tidbit was they purposely made them poor so people would go out and buy Colecovisions) but all Atarisoft titles for C64 were great. Sad we never got the planned Vanguard. By the way here's that sideways Pac-Man C64 port I mentioned in the preview for this video. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_J5b8zQsKZ4.html

Pac-Mania is my favorite on the C64. Too bad the C64 port of Mad Mix wasn’t that good.

It's funny how many Pac-Land players don't realize that Pac-Man can run.

"Pac Man fever"

Wasn't there a Baby Pacman game?

So the Atari 2600 jr PAC Man managed to scroll but the 64 version didn’t.

Pac Man ports to Commodore 64 were better than their competitors.

What's the best unofficial Pac-Man game on the C64?

why didn't you show the Atari 800 version instead of that inferior 2600 version?

Have(had) Atarisoft Pac-Man for my C-64, had Ms. Pac-Man too(which is a much better game), vaguely recall Super Pac-Man gotta Google around and see what csdb still has...

Pacland was always my favourite arcade game. I planned on making the missing trips for the c64 but changed my mind and I've started working on a Pitfall II arcade clone. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-BLgYK48GvXo.html

I think the best C64 version is the 1984 version from Atari. That is the only one that I play. Never liked MS. pacman my self.

The Atari 2600 version had the ugliest colors and abrasive sounds when compared with austere beauty of the colorful arcade game.

ATARI 2600 PAC MAN was HORRIBLE! Both the video, and especially the audio was SO annoying!