Do not buy this game.It is stupid.

This may be a good addition to someone absolutely obsessed with Pac Man but for me it was a total waste of money.25 bucks to pay for it and what do you get?A standard NES version of Pac Man and thats all.What a rip off! If youre just getting into Pac Man do yourself a favor and get Pac Man World 2 if you have a Cube and Pac Man Collection if you have a GBA.Both have the original arcade version of Pac Man plus other games.I think Pac Man World 2 is a much better deal than this piece of rubbish.The main game in PMW2 rocks plus you can unlock arcade games and tons of traditional Pac Man mazes.

PACMAN is the game that basically defined the Arcade. But this isn't the "Classic Arcade Series" its the "Classic NES Series" which means we get the NES version. This is NOT a good thing and while PACMAN is one of the games that will NEVER be forgotten the "Classic NES Series" doesn't capture it in all its glory. PACMAN was a nice classic Arcade game. I wouldn't consider the NES version to be a classic in anyway. There are a few things that stand out as to why.

The gameplay isn't bad. You're PACMAN in a maze eating up little yellow pelts. The Big Pelts give you the chance to capture the ghost.

But as I said some things are just wrong. For example, the Arcade version was a stretched out screen with the score at the top. This version shows the score off to the far right and tries to hard to fit it into the screen. You'll notice that PACMAN, the fruit and the ghost are all bigger than the corridor of the maze.

PACMAN also suffers from what many other Classic NES games suffer from and this one has it bad. For one ITS BEEN RE-RELEASED SEVERAL TIMES! If you have the Namco Museum you're fine (and that's even out on the GBA). Don't buy the classic NES series of PACMAN. Instead buy the Namco Museum package. Not only is it better but its also the Arcade version.

I look at older video games as a way of going back to my days in childhood. Nevertheless, they always brought some basic memories of my days feeling the rhythm of the arcade. That was there with Pac Man. The arcade classic still seems to amaze me from time to time. But, when too much nostalgia seems to simmer around, it is just so difficult to decide. Especially, whether there is the system you own, or the quantity and quality oddly enough, it always comes down to the simplicity of the yellow chomp, and the ghoulish spooks that haunt him. The downside is that there is ultimately too many different ways to get Pac Man.

The 2004, Pac Man for the Nintendo Game Boy Advance, is a consistent enterance, as it was a few years ago with the Pac Man Collection. This version of the game, was made in response to the Classic NES series lineup, a collection series to the 20th anniversary of the original Nintendo Entertainment System, the original super-system, of all video game systems. There really isn't anything new here, as you've played Pac Man here, but the game itself, and its reissuing again. The game features Pac Man, trying to gobble the power pellets, and evading away from the ghouls, that strike at will. The downside is that it really isn't useful, when too many reissuings of Pac Man are all at one, only one should be chosen, and stuck with.

Although Pac Man is great, this isn't the best version of the chomper that is yellow. Instead, I suggest you get the Pac Man Collection edition for the Game Boy Advance. You get this version of Pac Man, as well as three extra games of Pac Man: Pac-Mania, the Tetris-like Pac-Attack, and Pac-Man Arrangement. All in all, I don't suggest this one, for all the nostaglic ones out there.

You may wonder what is up with this game when you put it in your GAMEBOY ADVANCE or GAMECUBE with the GB PLAYER? Why is PAC-MAN bigger than the maze? Why are the ghosts and the fruits also bigger than the maze corridors? Hmmmmm!

Like DONKEY KONG this is not the arcade PAC-MAN, but the NES VERSION. They scrunched the screen a little bit back in the day, and put the score over to the right. They were trying to avoid the problem that plagued ATARI's 2600 version - television screens had more width and less height than in the arcade. So this is not the arcade, but the adapted NES version. Problem is PAC MAN was an arcade classic! Not an NES classic like SUPER MARIO BROS or ZELDA. Dubious port of the game when you can get the ARCADE version on THE PAC-MAN COLLECTION - as well as 3 or 4 variations and sequels.

Pac-Man is a great classic game! I love gobbling dots and ghosts, and could do it all day. It's a simple maze game that jump started the arcade craze. It caught on with girls and boys because it was a non-violent (sort of) cute and challenging game. You can never have enough pac-man in your life!

But with the recent realease of THE PAC MAN collection for the GBA where you get 4 or 5 games, and the NAMCO MUSEUM which includes MS PAC-MAN .... why do we need a bare bones release? For about $5 more than carts with more games! Whacka Whacka ... HUH!?!?!? For $19.99 you could get the NAMCO plug in play which includes Dig Dug, Rally X, Galaxian, and another space game. RETRO is awesome, but I know you can fit more on a cart than just one PAC-MAN game. So yeah for PAC-MAN, and !?!??! for Nintendo.

Pac-Man is an icon, like Mario and Donkey Kong. Pac-Man was around in the Atari days as a brillaint arcade game and a piece of crap Atari 2600 game. Basically you control a yellow, little guy whose whole body consists of a giant chomping mouth and eyes. He runs around in a maze eating pellets in grand fasion and avoiding pesky ghosts who are trying to ruin his fun. He can easily swallow these burdensome ghosts by ingesting power pellets and turning into a super chomper. Every once in a while fruit show up and offer variation and more points. The whole point of the game is to make the highest scroe possible in a seemingly endless assortment of mazes. Great fun at a great price and a classic. Oh, did you know that Pac-Man was originally called Puc-Man because he looked like a hockey puk? But some mistranslation on the arcade game scored big with gamers and the name stuck!