Namco Pac-Man

This article is a generic description of Namco's 8-bit "Pac-Man" hardware. For the specific arcade game, see Pac-Man.

The Namco Pac-Man was an 8-bit arcade game system board, which was first used by Namco in 1980; the second and third games to run on it, Rally-X and New Rally-X, were modified to support a larger color palette and scrolling. Three unauthorized Pac-Man sequels were later developed by Bally Midway, Namco's old US distributor, on this board between 1981 and 1983 - and after Namco ended their partnerships with them after the release of Pac-Land in 1984, they developed Jump Shot (a basketball simulation) and Shoot the Bull (a darts game) on it, in the following year.

Namco Pac-Man specifications

List of Namco Pac-Man arcade games

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Nick Montfort & Ian Bogost (2009), Racing the beam: the Atari Video computer system, MIT Press, p. 67, ISBN 0-262-01257-X, retrieved 2011-05-07
  2. ↑ http://www.drolez.com/retro/
  3. ↑ http://system16.com/hardware.php?id=514
  4. ↑ https://github.com/mamedev/mame/tree/master/src/emu/sound/namco.c
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 http://web.archive.org/web/20130104063950/http://mamedev.org/source/src/mame/drivers/rallyx.c.html
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Nick Montfort & Ian Bogost (2009), Racing the beam: the Atari Video computer system, MIT Press, p. 68, ISBN 0-262-01257-X, retrieved 2011-05-07
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 http://www.lomont.org/Software/Games/PacMan/PacmanEmulation.pdf
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 https://github.com/mamedev/mame/tree/master/src/mame/drivers/pacman.c
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 https://web.archive.org/web/20130104201358/http://mamedev.org/source/src/mame/video/pacman.c.html
  10. ↑ http://aarongiles.com/mamemem/part3.html
  11. ↑ http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=DqePfdz_x6gC&pg=PA70
  12. ↑ Steve L. Kent (2001), The ultimate history of video games: from Pong to Pokémon and beyond: the story behind the craze that touched our lives and changed the world, Prima, p. 143, ISBN 0-7615-3643-4, retrieved 2011-05-01, Despite the success of his game, Iwatani never received much attention. Rumors emerged that the unknown creator of Pac-Man had left the industry when he received only a $3500 bonus for creating the highest-grossing video game of all time.

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