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jr pac man wikipedia jump to content main menu main menu move to sidebar hide navigation main page contents current events random article about wikipedia contact us contribute help learn to edit community portal recent changes upload file special pages search search appearance donate create account log in personal tools donate create account log in contents move to sidebar hide top 1 gameplay 2 development 3 ports 4 references toggle references subsection 4 1 sources 5 external links toggle the table of contents jr pac man 6 languages deutsch español français italiano ladin português edit links article talk english read edit view history tools tools move to sidebar hide actions read edit view history general what links here related changes upload file permanent link page information cite this page get shortened url switch to legacy parser print export download as pdf printable version in other projects wikidata item appearance move to sidebar hide from wikipedia the free encyclopedia 1983 video game not to be confused with baby pac man this article needs more citations please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources unsourced material may be challenged and removed find sources jr pac man news newspapers books scholar jstor july 2019 learn how and when to remove this message 1983 video game jr pac man arcade flyer developer general computer corporation publisher bally midway 1 designer tim hoskins series pac man platforms arcade atari 2600 commodore 64 ms dos release december 1983 arcade na december 1983 2 2600 na october 1986 ms dos na 1988 c64 na 1988 genre maze modes single player multiplayer arcade system namco pac man jr pac man is an arcade video game developed by general computer corporation 3 and released by bally midway in 1983 it has the same gameplay as prior entries in the pac man series but the maze scrolls horizontally and has no escape tunnels unlike previous pac man games the bonus item moves around the maze it changes dots into a form that slows jr pac man as they are being eaten and can also destroy power pellets gameplay edit title screen the core gameplay of jr pac man is similar to its predecessors the player controls the eponymous jr pac man who wears an animated propeller beanie and scores points by eating all of the dots in the maze while four ghosts blinky pinky inky and tim who replaces clyde chase him around the maze and attempt to catch him eating a power pellet turns the ghosts blue briefly allowing the player to eat them for extra points once the maze is cleared a new maze is presented and the gameplay continues the mazes are now twice the width of the monitor and scroll horizontally a total of seven mazes appear throughout the game and five of them have six power pellets instead of four but none of them have tunnels that wrap around from one side of the screen to the other bonus items such as tricycles kites and balloons appear in each round starting above the ghosts lair and moving around the maze as in ms pac man as an item encounters dots it changes them into larger ones that award more points but slow jr pac man down more than regular dots while he is eating them after a certain length of time the item will move toward one of the remaining power pellets if any and explode on contact if not eaten destroying both itself and the pellet contact between jr pac man and a non vulnerable ghost costs the player one life and makes any large dots either disappear or revert to normal ones depending on how many dots overall are left in the maze the between level intermissions show the developing relationship between jr pac man and a small red ghost named yum yum who is apparently the daughter of blinky development edit tim hoskins worked at general computer corporation gcc as jr pac man s project lead hoskins recalled that gcc s founder doug macrae came up with the idea referring to the game as pac baby in his project notes macrae echoed this adding that junior arriving had been an intermission scene in ms pac man as pac man and ms pac man were what macrae described as huge successes the company continued with the series 1 during this period in arcade development they had the option to develop the game as a new arcade cabinet or implement a new hardware kit macrae had a plan to edit the original pac man kits implementing horizontal scrolling and changing the collectible fruits to toys 1 just like with ms pac man there was no source code available to the team to develop the game requiring the team to reverse engineer pac man from rom dumps unlike ms pac man which was developed in a few weeks jr pac man took months to make the scrolling play area led to difficulties handling off screen objects such as the ghosts 1 when investigating the pac man rom the developers found unused elements such as a fat dot and another that resembled a flame inspiring features in the new game they introduced a fat dot that slowed the player down more than regular dots when jr pac man ate them but that was worth more points for the bouncing toys they thought of the flame items they discovered and decided to implement an explosion when the fat dot interacted with a power pellet giving the player urgency to collect the toy item before risking losing a power pellet upon the player s death the fat dots would vanish rewarding skilled players who avoided losing them except at the very end of a level 4 the team also adjusted graphics from the original game giving jr pac man a twirling beanie cap and giving the game a lower case font 5 the group experimented with several ways to show the characters death sequence eventually settling on having him shrink down only leaving his beanie cap earlier experiments were coarser including having jr pac man pause then slowly ooze a red substance before the top of his body fell off 6 the team described creating the new intermissions as difficult involving creating new graphics and software to drive them 6 the game would be the final pac man game made by gcc hoskins envisioned other ideas to potentially make as a follow up such as a pac man game from a first person perspective but this was never made 4 ports edit the atari 2600 version of the game was programmed in 1984 by ava robin cohen of gcc the game was not released until 1986 when the atari 2600 was experiencing what game historian brett weiss described as a resurgence of sorts after nintendo had success in the marketplace with the nintendo entertainment system 7 atari had just re released the system as a smaller budget priced revision in 1986 8 jr pac man was released for the atari 2600 in october 1986 9 ports for the atari 5200 and the atari 8 bit computers were finished in 1984 but were scrapped along with super pac man when the home divisions of atari were sold to jack tramiel 10 11 an unofficial port for the atari 7800 was published in 2009 by atariage references edit 1 2 3 4 grannell 2011 p 67 akagi masumi october 13 2006 アーケードtvゲームリスト国内 海外編 1971 2005 arcade tv game list domestic overseas edition 1971 2005 in japanese japan amusement news agency pp 124 5 isbn 978 4990251215 the mit dropouts who created ms pac man a 35th anniversary oral history 3 february 2017 archived from the original on 15 june 2018 retrieved 12 january 2022 1 2 grannell 2011 p 69 grannell 2011 p 67 68 1 2 grannell 2011 p 68 weiss 2014 p 119 digital eclipse november 11 2022 atari 50 nintendo switch atari highs and lows the 2600 jr in addition to the 7800 atari also rolled out a smaller budget priced revision of the 2600 retailing for just 49 99 it was a very affordable alternative and atari began to put more 2600 games on the shelves availability update the video game update november 1986 p 14 reichert matt jr pac man atari 5200 atariprotos com archived from the original on 2011 04 29 retrieved 2011 03 05 reichert matt jr pac man atari 8 bit atariprotos com archived from the original on 2011 07 07 retrieved 2011 03 05 sources edit grannell craig 2011 the making of jr pac man retro gamer no 85 imagine publishing issn 1742 3155 weiss brett 2014 the 100 greatest console video games 1977 1987 schiffer publishing isbn 978 0 7643 4618 7 external links edit jr pac man at the killer list of videogames jr pac man at the arcade history database jr pac man at lemon 64 classicgaming com entry on jr pac man with screenshots of all the mazes and cutscenes v t e pac man video games arcade pac man ms plus super baby pac pal professor jr pac land pac mania arrangement vr battle royale home pac attack 2 the new adventures pac in time world 2 3 ms pac man maze madness adventures in time ms pac man quest for the golden maze all stars fever vs pac pix pinball advance pac n roll world rally championship edition dx 2 pac motos party ghostly adventures 2 256 mega tunnel battle 99 shadow labyrinth compilations namco museum microsoft arcade pac man collection namco museum battle collection tilt pac man museum arcade game series other atari 2600 port world s biggest 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