Jr. Pac-Man

Jr. Pac -Man is an arcade game from 1983, published by the US - American game development company Bally Midway. It is based on the Pac -Man gameplay, but it does not belong to the officially published series of Pac- Man games, such as Baby Pac -Man. This game was produced without the consent of the company Namco, Pac -Man holds the rights to the character.

Gameplay

The gameplay of Jr. Pac -Man is based very close to the original Pac -Man. The labyrinth is in this game three times as wide as the visible play field and a virtual camera follows Junior Pac Man to the left and right when the game character threatens to disappear off the screen. This may mean that not all ghosts are seen in the visible field. There are seven different mazes in the game and none of these levels has, as is usual with other Pac -Man games, tunnels through which the player can quickly switch from one side of the playing field to the other. In the individual mazes six instead of four energy pills are distributed.

Ports of the game

The fact that the arcade game was not very popular, only ports for the Atari 2600 game console, DOS PC and the Commodore 64 have been developed. In 1997 appeared a version for the Atari 400/800. Plans for a port to the Atari 5200 in 1983 not implemented because of the Video Game Crash; but there is a prototype.