Pac-Man Mobile (Pre-Smartphone) Thread (Take 2)

[CosmicToons]

Redoing this because for some reason my previous attempt was done weeks ago and still hasn't been approved. That, and I can now post without needing approval, so there's that I guess.

 

Has anyone ever played the flip phone ports of Pac-Man, Ms. Pac-Man, Pac-Man Plus, Super Pac-Man, or Pac-Mania when they were available? I've totally missed out and I wish I was there, because I've really been into the old, pretty much lost mobile titles lately, especially Pac-Man Plus and Super Pac-Man.

I even directed a remake of Plus that you may or may not wanna consider playing, hint hint... 😉 

(if you're not interested that's ok)

Edited May 21, 2023 by CosmicToons

[Tanooki]

So you remade the old mobile game eh?

 

I know it's a Sony thing, still irks me a bit when I remember it to date, but I had the J2ME (old T-mobile keyboard slide phone) app of LocoRoco and it was utterly fantastic.  They let it sell not terribly long, then being dicks, when my phone got broken and replaced, despite paying for it, i was blocked from re-downloading it and all t-mobile could do was apologize because it was Sonys call and not even a refund could happen (what a waste.)  I'd love to see that brought back, that would be a hell of a lot of fun.

 

What find utterly distasteful is that Namco has so nastily monetized Pac-Man on ios and android if you keep things legal (no side loading what does work on the Android side.)  You can not just enjoy the game, you got to buy coins/attempts to play and there are ads everywhere that spam the crap out of you.  I rarely will re-install it and remember why I can't put up with it.  I hate you can't get a normal experience, even if it were the slightly off copies the Famicom/NES got as there is that Famicom Namco bundle on Switch etc.  That would even be fine, but nope...not that either.

 

What you have there looks quite solid, good job on that, and the snark in that ad that's top notch.

 

 

By the way... Pookin, ms pac-man?

Edited May 22, 2023 by Tanooki

[CosmicToons]

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So you remade the old mobile game eh?

Yup, and recently we decided to remake all the other NA mobile ports, too. We already remade the OG Pac, and we're currently planning for Ms. Pac.

We want to remake Super Pac, but it runs on a very different engine. Hopefully we can figure something out, as Super Pac-Man had a damn good mobile port in North America, with the extra mazes and powerups.

 

Speaking of which, I've been thinking about that one a lot lately, how only the PalmOS version has resurfaced. It was released for J2ME and BREW, but those versions are long gone at this point. It's a shame really, as I have a ton of Super Pac-Man projects that could really benefit from the J2ME/BREW MIDIs.

 

(No, I'm not talking about the crappy port with the Pac-Mania graphics. That one was released in Europe.)