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Why did the USA produce greater Pac-Man sequels than Namco?

>> No.10323270

>>10323243
I liked the Namco sequels.

>> No.10323279

>>10323270
Same. Don't know what OP's on about.

>> No.10323291

>>10323243
The American Pac-Man games are like for people who don't like the original Pac-Man so they speed it up or change the maze whereas the Japanese Pac-Man sequels respected the original and instead of modifying it they made new games all together

>> No.10323456

>>10323243
fuck you, Pacman and Chomp Chomp is fun

>> No.10323471

>>10323243
America is much better at making games in general than Japan, so...

>> No.10323567

>>10323243
Pac-Land was the best eat’em up

>> No.10323580

>>10323291
Thanks weebGPT.

>> No.10323583

Japs tend to innovate more, which sometimes falls flat. But Americans can sometimes improve on existing ideas sure.

>> No.10323587

>>10323471
Depends on the genre usually.

>> No.10323594

>>10323291
>glorious japan made them similar for the REAL fans!
>>10323583
>glorious japan innovated and made them more different!
Weebs really do just say shit, huh?

>> No.10323597

pac and pal is fun
japan still won with pacmania and arrangement anyways

>> No.10323631

>>10323597
Pac and Pal is dogshit. Get some taste.

>> No.10323646

Jr. isn't good though. Ms. Pac-Man is great but that's because its mostly the same game with a better maze. Pac-Man is inherently a perfect game that further gimmicks only hurt.

>> No.10323656

>>10323631
its good :)

>> No.10323706

>>10323243
>invents sidescrolling platformers with pac-land
what again?

>> No.10323727
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10323727

>>10323706
It's not even the first Namco scroller lol.
>but mappy doesn't have real jumping
Flicky by Sega then.

>> No.10323751

>>10323471
There’s only a handful of American games worth playing.

>> No.10323848

>>10323243
says who? i haven't played them. there is no consensus on how these games are in my mind until i play them. are you trying to steer me?

>> No.10323882

>>10323243
Because American devs understood that if you need a "rule book" to understand the goal of the game, less people will be willing to put in a quarter into the machine. "Eat all the dots" is fairly simple to explain. NAMCO on the other hand thought innovating would be a good idea but in reality they're completely different games with Pac-Man license shoehorned into it. If it wasn't PAC but instead a snake or something, it'd be a rather forgettable title.

>> No.10323893

>>10323594
>>10323291
>Pac-Man sequels respected the original and instead of modifying it they made new games all together

>new games all together instead of small tweaks is somehow = contradiction to the fact they innovated and made new different games
huh?

>> No.10325279

>>10323243
>Why did the USA produce greater Pac-Man sequels than Namco?
namco hadn't made any sequel at that time. these american guys made a different game out of the original code and later changed when they showed it to namco. these yanks apparently spent thousands of dollars to have a system to disassemble and program their arcade board using an In-Circut Emulator. imagine going up to a corporation like namco today and saying:
> yeah, i hacked your software and made a better game out of it
you'd probably get sued. japs back in the 80s were dangerously based and needed as much help as they could get. if you don't believe me, there's job recruitment adverts in nintendo arcade roms left in their by nintendo's sub-contractor to work for the sub-contractor.

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10325443

>>10323243
Non japs also made the best pac man game. The remake (made by japs) is shit

>> No.10325452

>>10323471
Europe is the king when it comes to Nintendo games. Best nes, snes and n64 game were all rare games.

>> No.10325473

>>10325452
>mog super mario wolrd with DKC
>Mog Yoshi island with DKC2
>mog Mario 64 with Donkino 64 and Banjo
>Mog Mario Kart 64 with Diddy Kong Racing
>In the process to mog Zelda with Dinosaur planet until nintendo forced them to change stuffs to save face
No wonder nintendo sold them out

>> No.10325579

>>10323882
The rule book was literally the text on the cabnit. Same way you learned to play board games.

>> No.10325580

>>10325443
Don't forget pac in time

>> No.10325585

>>10325473
Besides dkc mogging smw, everything else is demonstrably false. In no world does dk64 and banjo mog sm64, they just don't have the level design or controls to compete with sm64 and dinosaur planet was never going to be a good game nor a Zelda killer at that. Stop over inflating rares legacy.

>> No.10325587

>>10325585
It's a meme

>> No.10325592
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10325592

>>10325580
I think this one is pretty solid too

>> No.10325602
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10325602

>>10325587
Nah, people actually think this. Go fuck yourself with your backpedaling retardation like you know what a meme is.

>> No.10325603

>>10323243
I forgot the name of the Pac-Man sequel where the level design of the labyrinth change at each level.

>> No.10325787

>>10323279
Same here. I like them better than the original

>> No.10326996
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10326996

>>10325585
What kind of fucked up alternate universe do you live in where Mario Kart 64 is better than Diddy Kong?

>> No.10327090

>>10323243
>Why did the USA produce greater Pac-Man sequels than Namco?

the original Ms. Pac-Man didn't even start as a sequel. It was a clone of some kind, called Ottoman.

>> No.10328701

Ms Pac Man was a fan modification board designed by a few college dropouts, and they sold it back to the company

https://youtu.be/rhM8NAMW_VQ?si=MyhidGH9QESeWer5

Fantastic watch, recommend it over reading the posts above by absolute fucking pseudo
>uhh well the Japanese are more like this and..

Just shut the fuck up you obnoxious losers, I wasted most of my life listening to absolute dipshits like you talk like they know literally anything

>> No.10328702

>>10325279
The only anon here who has any idea what he's on about

>> No.10328710

>>10323243
I think pac and pal is fun