Pac-Land

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Pac-Land
A better city to live other than Mushroom Kingdom.
Developer Namco
Publisher Worldwide release Namco

United States of America Bally Midway

Composer Yuriko Keino
System Arcade Machine
Sound Chips Namco CUS30
Release date Japan 1984-08

United States of America 1984-10

VGM pack page Spectrum TG-16
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'Pac-Land (ja:パックランチE) is a action platform game, developed and released by Namco in 1984. Bally Midway released it in North America two months later. Ports of Pac-Land was released for various systems, such as the Famicom, the TurboGrafx-16, ZX Spectrum 128, MSX1 and for the Sharp X68000.

Trivia

  • The game is based of the Hanna-Barbera cartoon called Pac-Man, aired in North America in 1982;
  • A stage based on the first Round of Pac-Land is available in Super Smash Bros. for Wii U. Also, the jumping sound of Pac-Man in Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U is the same jumping sound of Pac-Man in Pac-Land. The hydrant that spits out water in high rounds of Pac-Land is also seen too.