Pacman

[Anonymous No.8997706]

What's Pacman's appeal?

[Anonymous No.8997709]

tactical espionage action

[Anonymous No.8997712]

It's fun.

[Anonymous No.8997715]

>>8997706
One of the first games ever to be playable enough to be mainstream. That's it.

[Anonymous No.8997748]

>>8997706
he eats the pills

[Anonymous No.8997757]

>>8997706
sex appeal!

[Anonymous No.8997767]

Metal Gear Solid without the movie part

[Anonymous No.8997780]

>>8997706
Each dot is a dopamine

[Anonymous No.8997854]

>>8997706
Fun, zoomers wouldnt get it.

[Anonymous No.8997924]

>>8997854
Yeah, modern gamers seems to think of games as a vehicle to deliver "content" and view a challenge as nothing more than a gate in front of the next piece of content. The idea of a game where the challenge is the point, and the gameplay itself is fun from moment to moment, and just playing that, is alien to them for some reason.
I don't get it.

[Anonymous No.8997930]

I am more a pickman guy. 2 player coop too

[Anonymous No.8998205]

>>8997924
Oh my fucking god.
The complete lack of self-awareness in this post.
Pac-Man was the FIRST game to have new cutscenes as a reward for beating levels.
It created the very thing you are disparaging.

[Anonymous No.8998238]

>>8997706
bustin makes me feel good

[Anonymous No.8998308]

>>8998205
Yes, and?

[Anonymous No.8998379]

>>8998205
Are you really trying to argue the game was successful because it had short intermissions of simple characters and not because it had fun gameplay? What the fuck is wrong with zoomers

[Anonymous No.8998463]

>>8998379
I think he's just trying to play "gotcha!"

[Anonymous No.8998475]

>>8997757
This. No one can resist the Pac-Chad.

[Anonymous No.8998491]

>>8998475
Puck-Man game was specifically designed to be more attractive for female players than other games of late 70s.

[Anonymous No.8998535]

>>8997706
What's Pacman's appeal?

He pacs and wakawaks.

[Anonymous No.8998574]

>>8997924
lmao you're such a stupid and out of touch faggot. Yes, I'm sure no gameplay heavy, challenging games recently sold 13 million copies or anything.

[Anonymous No.8998587]

>>8998535
this guy pucks!

[Anonymous No.8998608]

>>8997706
it's immediate and gamey.

i didn't 'get' pac-man until a few days ago, then it just clicked. eat the pellets, avoid the ghosts.

[Anonymous No.8998692]

>>8998574
The people who like those games aren't the ones asking shit like "what's the appeal of pac-man?"

[Anonymous No.8998965]

>>8997706
I always thought galaga was better, but pacman isn't bad either. The premise of being chased by ghosts is funny and the gameplay is fun.
Still like galaga more though.

[Anonymous No.8998978]

>>8997706
How do you get good a Pacman? Do you need to train your reaction or figure out ghosts' patterns or everything at the same time?

[Anonymous No.8998984]

easy to pick up. that's about it really, the simple stuff is always appealing.

[Anonymous No.8999034]

>>8998379
No, retard.
It was successful because it had both.
Why do you think games like Head-On and Space-Chaser weren't colossal cultural hits like Pac-Man despite coming out first?
Why do you think the cultural icon for space invaders is an alien and not the tank you control?
Pac-Man had character. Tanks, cars and rockets don't.

[Anonymous No.8999053]

for me it’s Munch Man

[Anonymous No.8999176]

>>8999034
Also, Pac-Man was actually well made unlike whatever eyesore jank I'm looking at here.

[Anonymous No.8999294]

>>8999176
>graphics fag gives his assessment of game he hasn't played

[Anonymous No.8999650]

>>8999034
Pacman was the longest developed game ever at 14 months when it came out. It had a level of polish in its mechanics that nothing else at the time did. The ghost being 4 colors didnt make it popular, them all having their own unique AI did.

[Anonymous No.8999660]

>>8999053
> the cover art made by dev's 3-year old daughter
> munch man is either choked on power pill or have lethal arrhythmia
> apparently the cassette itself is terribly cursed because it have "4 intelligent ghosts" possessing it

[Anonymous No.8999670]

>>8999053
while the burger eating, kiddie massacring gun toters’ were tanking their video game industry with unplayable jank like the 2600 port of Pac-Man, we were playing near arcade perfect conversions on the Speccy

[Anonymous No.8999706]

>>8997924
Agreed, that other anon Is wrong btw

[Anonymous No.8999717]

>>8998978
Like anything else you can play, just play it over and over again until you "get it". There are strategy vids on youtube though if you want to cut corners.

[Anonymous No.8999741]

>>8999034
Eugene Jarvis, lead designer of Williams, fucking hated Pac-Man. He felt that it was casual trash which used cartoon graphics for cheap attraction, especially compared to his hardcore creation Defender with four separate buttons doing own functions.

[Anonymous No.8999952]

>>8999741
why are you lying

[Anonymous No.9000014]

>>8999952
>"I was like, 'This is the most boring game in the history of video games and it's never going to make money. I'm glad I didn't do this piece of [bleep],' " said Jarvis, now president of Skokie-based arcade game company Raw Thrills. "But history has certainly proved me wrong there."
https://www.chicagotribune.com/redeye/redeye-pac-man-35-years-later-pixels-20150721-story.html

[Anonymous No.9000290]

>>8997706
>He doesn't understand the appeal of Pac-Man
Letting zoomers in here was a mistake

[Anonymous No.9000507]

>>8997706
>appeal
Standing in front of Pac-Man machine, pocket full of quarters, soft-pack of Marlboro's in your t-shirt and one burning in the attached ash tray, record jukebox blasting tunes, there's your appeal, son.

[Anonymous No.9000574]

>>8997930
that aint SkyMaze

[Anonymous No.9000590]

>>8999053
>BUT BEWARE!! OF THE GHOSTS CHASING YOU

I see speccy programmers put as much effort into their grammar as they did their games.

[Anonymous No.9000594]

>>8997709
this was funnier than you got credit for

[Anonymous No.9000603]

>>9000507
>Standing in front of Pac-Man machine, pocket full of quarters, soft-pack of Marlboro's in your t-shirt and one burning in the attached ash tray, record jukebox blasting tunes, there's your appeal, son.
If you swap cigs for cases of cheap beer that my bro working at the arcade let me bring in you have my teen years right fucking there. I spent probably twice my first year of college tuition on arcade games. Hell, even failed courses because I was such an addict.

[Anonymous No.9000610]

>>9000014
Sounds like a butthurt faggot

[Anonymous No.9000627]

>>8997709
Unironically genius comment.

[Anonymous No.9000686]

>>8999741
>Jarvis reasoned that players were accustomed to the control schemes of past games, and felt altering past designs would prove difficult for them.[12]
he made the controls shitty on purpose to make more money

[Anonymous No.9000839]

>>8998978
that is the worst wig of all time