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4930461 No.4930461 [Reply] [Original]

Why did Pac-Man never got as popular as Mario or Sonic?
A lot of his games are really good

>> No.4930464

Namco never really went anywhere with the character beyond the arcade formula

>> No.4930478

He was. He was super popular in the early 80s. There was even a hit song about him.

>> No.4930483
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4930483

Fuck Pac-Man, why didn't LadyBug become a popular character?

>> No.4930495

>>4930483
You have a better reason besides pleasing your dick?

>> No.4930503

>>4930483
fuck me that's an ugly cabinet

>> No.4930724
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>>4930461
Wonderful game, adored everything from it. When i was younger i loved how Pacman jumps with that autistic expression printed on his face. Btw i gave him the same importance of other games like Spyro or Crash, even if different games i thought they were all equally beautiful. Can't say the same of today stuff... We had shit back in the day but come on, now it's a ridiculous amount.

Thread theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgjFCQ8DaMM

>> No.4930735

>>4930461
but.. anon, pacman was as popular.
>>4930478
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XY_ESTnBlS0

>> No.4930738

>>4930503
ugly game too.

>> No.4930743

>>4930483
Literal Boomer porn. Gross.

>> No.4930803
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4930803

pac man was the best

>> No.4930804

>>4930461

He did, you're just too young to remember it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XY_ESTnBlS0

>> No.4930809

>>4930804
Came here to post this.
In Japan there was a shortage of 100 yen coins because the Yellow One ate so many of them.

>> No.4930856

>>4930478
>>4930735
>>4930804
I mean, after the 80s
Most of Pac's games went under the radar (Pac-In-Time on SNES is massively underrated), even if I know a lot of people that love the world games, they never get as much attention as the arcade game or ms.pac-man.

>> No.4930931

>>4930856
I love pac in time.
It had some awseome items and game mechanics.

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>>4930464
>what is pacman world

>> No.4930954

>>4930809
None of this is true. Pac-Man didn't cause a coin shortage, Space Invaders didn't cause a coin shortage. let it go already.

http://www.academia.edu/3672374/Insert_Coin_to_Play_Space_Invaders_and_the_100_Yen_Myth

>> No.4930998

Pac Man is primarily an arcade series. His popularity went down in the 90s because games in arcades stopped being "puzzle-like". In Space Invaders, each time the game loads up some new enemies, you work through the new gaggle of them as a unit, it's a puzzle to beat one group of enemies and then you do it again. Later shooters would evolve this into levels with bosses and such, and much more varied threats, abilities, and game mechanics as you progress and two player modes. Unlike later games, Space Invaders has no ending. Pac Man died when games like Space Invaders died and progression/multiplayer took over.

>> No.4931031

>>4930951
a mediocre series of platformers

>> No.4931045
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>>4931031

>> No.4931117

The appeal was just too limited. He was an iconic design but he didn't have a lovable cast of supporting characters or a fun setting. Even Mario with it's limited story telling had more world building than pac-man. Mario didn't live in a giant version of his head, for starters. He didn't live in "Mario town", and his supporting cast, aside from luigi, weren't identical to him.

>> No.4931151

Anyone play this on PlayStation?
https://youtu.be/hfbWDjWW7OI

This was my favourite game for it

>> No.4931337

>>4930503
>>4930738
>>4930743
Homos.

>> No.4931395
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>>4931337
Christ alive, not liking ugly arcade cabinets makes you a fag now?

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>>4930461
Pac-Man did fine with the years, he had at least one good game for almost every console until the seventh gen

I guess that the reason is that the gap between every release was too inconsistent and every title was too different. With mario you have the basis: Happy/fantasy and he jumps, with sonic you have th basis: Cool/Rad and he runs. But what is the pacman basis?

>> No.4931526

>>4931506
He's whimsical and he eats.

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>>4931117
I really liked that Pac-Man was just a regular dude that just wants to protect his people (mostly his family).
And that each Pac-Member had actual games.
>>4931506
He's a positive dude (thought you don't wanna annoy him) that leaves peacefully with his family and can chomp anything.

>> No.4932358

>>4931395
What's so ugly about it?

>> No.4932385

>>4930998
>progression/multiplayer took over
So side-scrolling games with self-evident objectives are progression games now? I assume you're not talking about RPG progression systems.

>> No.4932393

>>4931117
Mario remained popular because Nintendo has remained popular and Mario is its most known mascot and main character in its flagship series. The supporting cast is incidental and follows from Mario's popularity, it's not the cause of it.

>> No.4932453
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4932453

>the screeching autist who cares way too much about imposing his specific definition of “progression” is back

>> No.4933738
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4933738

Pacman was a worldwide phenomenon in a way Mario never was

>> No.4933753

>>4930461
Pac-Man was more popular in the 80s than Sonic was in the 90s.

>> No.4933761
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4933761

Why do the ghosts keep coming back?

>> No.4933851

>>4930461
He was. Pac-Man was huge. Stupid huge even.
Shit, I'd still say that Pac-Man is still in the top-20 most recognizable game characters. He even got a TV show again not too long ago.

>>4931506
Running around eating things.
but yeah, I get what you mean here

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>>4932385
He doesn't even know what he's complaining about anymore.
It's a shame that "autism" gets thrown around so much that the word has lost its meaning because it perfectly and appropriately applies here.

Pac-Land is the daddy of the modern platform game format and it was an arcade game, so, I dunno man.

>> No.4933863

>>4931506
Hell, those Pac-Man DX games are legit. and Pac-Man 256 is the best mobile game ever. He's stayed relevant for every gen now.

>> No.4934006
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Pac was and is still Namco's mascot (thought i would say Tekken became their flagship franchise), but I wish they tried a new platforming game with him, the Ghostly Adventures weren't actually that bad, and I'm kinda sick of just seeing "remixed" versions of the arcade classic (at least try something like Maze Madness or Adventures in Time).
But Bamco nowadays only cares for Souls-shit and Anime games

>> No.4934027

>>4934006
I played Pac-Attack more than the actual game once I unlocked it.

>> No.4934060

Pac-Man was huge in the early to mid-80s. Had his own Saturday Morning cartoon, his own cereal, a charting song about him (b/w Do The Donkey Kong), Halloween costumes, spin-off games like Ms. Pac-Man, Pac-Man Jr. and another one (called Pac-Man Fever, I think) where you could also jump over the ghosts a few times per board. There was merchandise up the ass for that game, the likes of which you wouldn't see again until later games like Mario, Sonic, Pokemon etc.

Mario and Sonic pretty much took over this spot in the 90s, as Pac-Man was only limited to being a popular maze-runner game.

>> No.4934079

>>4930483
I never knew this was an official game. It always looked like some shitty hack

>> No.4934164
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4934164

Remember when everyone had this on a shirt?

>> No.4934168

He wasn't the mascot of a console, I'll give you that.

He will just have to settle for being the fucking mascot of the entire form of video games for close to a decade.

>> No.4934169

>>4934164

Still waiting for that game, Anon.

>> No.4934186

>>4930856
well for starters the gaming world changed. He was seen as the dad/grandpa's game and was seen as simple in design. Also like Testis and Pog it's a limited concept with what you can do with it and still make it feel like the original game in some way.

>> No.4934308

>>4930461
Mostly because Pac-Man, like a lot of other mega hits of the time like Space Invaders and Q-Bert, are so tied to the concept of the original arcade games you can't vary it up too much. Pac-Land, Pac-in-Time and whatnot aren't bad, but they don't really feel like Pac-Man games, they feel like random platformers with Pac-Man characters thrown in for recognition. A Pac-Man game where you don't eat dots in a maze is like a Mario game that doesn't have jumping over things as a major gameplay element.

>> No.4936187

>>4933761
Because Blinky is a vengeful fuck who doesn't understand the concept of giving up, Pinky has the hots for Pac-Man, and Inky is too cowardly, and Clyde too stupid, respectively, to tell the first two "maybe let's just stop trying to attack him and his family and he'll leave us alone".
There's a bunch of other ghosts with actual names that appear in about one or two games then never show up again, probably because they realize this nonsense is futile and stupid. The original four are the only ones who still give a shit.

>> No.4936203

>>4930461
see>>4934168

>> No.4936659

>>4930461
Namco never released a console.

>> No.4936710

>>4931506
he's a smug cunt and he'll fuck your wife after he eats her out like an industrial shredder.

>> No.4936740

>>4936659
Bandai released the Wonderswan.
Since they're the part of the same company now, the Wonderswan is now the closest thing to a Namco console that exists.

>> No.4937035

>>4933738
https://youtu.be/5C_99XJqIs4
pac man is naked and so should you

>> No.4937129

>>4930951
Ah yes, but this is pac-man world 2

>> No.4937187

>>4937035
this man is a beast, someone get this man a gun.

>> No.4937546

His best game stars his wife

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>>4937035
>he has a loving wife who plays vidya with him, at least 1 friend, a house and a car
Unironically jealous tbqh