Pac-Man Plus (partially found mobile port of arcade maze game; 2007)

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Status:
Demo Version: Found
Full Version: Lost

Date found: 28 Aug 2022 (Demo)

Pac-Man Plus is an arcade maze game released by Bally Midway in 1982, it is an upgrade kit for the original Pac-Man that adds some new features and twists (which includes new Bonus Fruit, Disappearing Mazes and Ghosts and a few more things). In 2007 Namco Networks ported the game to mobile devices exclusively for Sprint and Boost Mobile users, this release features even more new twists than the original game and has some very noticeable changes. A demo of this port was also preloaded on some Sprint Devices, which includes the Samsung SPH-M800 Instinct, Samsung SPH-M540 Rant, and the LG LX290, Only two of the demos have been dumped.

Differences

This port of Pac-Man Plus, while retaining the gameplay twists from the arcade version (Such as the invisible Ghosts and Mazes), also adds some new features and changes, these being new detailed graphics, new maze colors, new intermission themes (based on Pac & Pal), the ghost that matches the maze color being immune to power pellets, and the effects of the bonus fruit being dependent on the level.

The port also includes a fully playable demo of the original Pac-Man

Availability

On August 28th, 2022, two demo builds of the game were uploaded to the Internet Archive by user ShiroTourmaline. They were obtained by extracting the game data from the firmware of the Samsung phones they were preinstalled into.