Pac-Mania | Versions Comparison | Arcade, ZX Spectrum, C64, CPC, MSX, Amiga, X68000, NES and more

[@retrosutra]

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[@TheRealBobHickman]

I wrote the GBA port. It had a lot of challenges, but I was able to do it justice.

[@newrallyxeviousgamer]

Woah! If you really did make the GBA port then nice job on it then. Glad to see one of the makers of something comment on their own game. (Or in this case, own port.)

[@TheRealBobHickman]

@@newrallyxeviousgamer If you have a copy, you can look me up in the credits. I also worked on Namco Museum around the same time. (We did Museum first, then Pac-Man Collection after)

[@TheRealBobHickman]

@Wubbzy, Driver of The Fire Scorpion - Yes, but to be fair, the source media I was working from already had the cut down music. If I'd been able to legally get the full tune without upsetting Namco Japan, I would have tried to squeeze it in. We had to work with what Namco USA had approved though.

[@MR33EE]

Wow! That’s cool!

[@GPWT-video]

привет всем 🙂

[@steuph1976]

That Sharp X68000 dude is just not funny. Like yeah we know you can do arcade perfect, it's not a reason to throw it in our face EVERYTIME.

[@hathead7385]

?

[@DeskoDev]

@@hathead7385 Sharp X68000 keeps doing arcade perfect ports, probably for clout or something

[@bangerbangerbro]

Yeah i agree. It always annoys me when people go on about how much better it is compared to an Amiga when it was like 5 times as expensive and newer. But it is still a version of the game that exists and therefore should always be in the comparison. It makes more sense than including emulated versions of games.

[@Bloodreign1]

The X68000 was pretty much the heart of every arcade game of that era, so 90% of the time it could churn out pretty much exact arcade ports, save for Chase HQ, which was botched as a port for that. The X68K was 2 years newer than the Amiga, and ate it for lunch, but that was because the Japanese were just better at building PC's, and the fact that they based one off the guts of arcade machines gave it a massive advantage over any PC at that time.

[@steuph1976]

@@Bloodreign1 seriously it’s really impressive but it’s just funny because in each video it’s like « who’s going to win ? Oh it’s bloody Sharp X68000 again ! ». On the new Space Harrier video it’s even more blatant, you get all these computer ports trying their best not to be terrible, and often failing, and then the X68000 version that was almost arcade perfect.

[@neilarcher2551]

The Amiga version was one of those rare games that used overscan like the first Speedball game.

[@brotherbup7425]

That massive dip in quality between the first two versions is hilarious.

[@waffle5422]

To be fair he was playing the 48k version. The 128k version has music too

[@brunourtechojofre]

Za

[@brunourtechojofre]

COOL VIDEO

[@igordantasneres6103]

Thats what u think, the spectrum version is very good

[@roshwyinstaicoon2593]

ZX 48k sounds like an AK47 when you eat a power pellet

[@mwwve]

1:38 oh god that’s laggy as all hell 4:42 OH GOD IT’S WORSE 4:49 AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[@bangerbangerbro]

1:38 doesn't look slow.

[@jaycee1980]

CPC always seemed to get the shit end of the stick.. bad Spectrum port in this case. The Spectrum versions should have had the same music though on the 128K versions (same AY sound chip)

[@nintega_64]

14:00 oh my god

[@dlfrsilver]

@@jaycee1980 as always. Again a shite port emulating the Speccy !

[@EnderArlo]

1:38 FPS looks playable

[@theballisticbalmy4940]

Sweet! This is actually my favorite Pac-Man game!

[@mickycohen9152]

This is my second favorite pacman game. The first one is simple but super fun

[@theballisticbalmy4940]

@@mickycohen9152 person of taste 😤

[@kieranstark7213]

Now you’re speaking my language! And this is coming from a Pac-Man fan! terribletvshows.miraheze.org/wiki/Pac-Man_and_the_Ghostly_Adventures crappygames.miraheze.org/wiki/Pac-Man_(Atari_2600) crappygames.miraheze.org/wiki/Pac-Man_World_2_(Game_Boy_Advance) crappygames.miraheze.org/wiki/Pac-Man_World_(Game_Boy_Advance) crappygames.miraheze.org/wiki/Ms._Pac-Man:_Quest_for_the_Golden_Maze Well, mostly.

[@mickycohen9152]

@@theballisticbalmy4940 hey I wasn't offending u 👌👌

[@theballisticbalmy4940]

@@mickycohen9152 Oh, no! I wasn't offended! I was saying you have good taste.

[@lightninstriker10]

The X68000 Version is incredibly impressive for the time, at a glance it'd be easy to mistake it for the arcade version.

[@roshwyinstaicoon2593]

​@@Random_Person. bro what did the hell did it do?

[@emilianosaenzlima6928]

Es igual a la version japonesa del paC○ mania en los arcades

[@roshwyinstaicoon2593]

@@Random_Person. I see nothing wrong dammit.

[@roshwyinstaicoon2593]

@@Random_Person. mk

[@ThailandLover8]

Me: Mom can we have Pac-Mania Mom: No we already have Pac-Mania at home Pac-Mania at home: 4:49

[@cristinamisaros8271]

More like 9:40

[@ABUltra64]

​@@cristinamisaros8271that one looks better then the other one

[@mjdxp5688]

Suprising that this game was released on so many platforms despite being fairly complex in arcades.

[@loveharrysmith]

🎉😊😮 Strange!

[@Mr.Face222]

*(context-breaking so the replies are no longer relevant)* In my opinion, the arcade version(s) are some of the only good versions. Many other versions are extremely lazy, especially ones that use only three ghost sprites, use Block Town music for Sandbox Land, and not to mention the downgraded Block Town music. The original arcade version will always be the best version imo, though the NES version comes right behind it.

[@Wflash00]

Sad? The GBA port was really well done except for maybe the music being cut short.

[@Mr.Face222]

Dang, I forgot I wrote this comment.

[@myapika5529]

At least you didn't grew up playing the zx version

[@meh78336]

The Spectrum 128K version would have been a better representation, is essentially a faster version of the Amstrad version in terms of sound as well as gfx.

[@retrosutra]

Sure thing, we'll be more careful with ZX Spectrum versions in the future. Hope you enjoyed the video anyway!

[@jenniferchavira]

6:35 DID YOU JUST SEE WHAT HE JUST DID

[@ZeldaMasterLogan]

He jumped?

[@FranklinPython]

No "he", but "the"!

[@giddygoon73]

I see!

[@giddygoon73]

PAC-MAN somehow didn't eat that PAC-DOT, 🤔

[@giddygoon73]

Orrrrrrrrr... It just was a close call

[@icemcfrost]

Pac-Mania was way ahead of its time back then.

[@nintega_64]

Especially in ‘87

[@pain-ot5st]

wAS tHAt tHE BIte Of 87'?1!?

[@setsers1]

@@pain-ot5st 😆

[@setsers1]

Yyyyup!!😊

[@jasonlee7816]

it is or seems dumb to say Pac-Mania was ahead of its time without a reason

[@ΑΠΟΣΤΟΛΟΣΒΟΥΛΓΑΡΑΚΗΣ-κ6μ]

could you do (sometime) a versions comparison for: New zealand story Dig-Dug Q-bert Tetris

[@Hellwyck]

The New Zealand Story: kzbin.info/www/bejne/p5vVZmeAiM-KoLs

[@jedizombiekiller9065]

Yikes a tetris video would take a year to showcase lmao

[@bonniethebunny4780]

Dig-Dug kzbin.info/www/bejne/r3yXaZawiLN4ndU

[@Tretheperson]

yes to Q*bert and tetris

[@dayanemenezes300]

12/7/2020: 2 down, 2 to go.

[@GabrielG3Official]

4:48 How feels to be drunk

[@lucianothewindowsfan]

15:37 Literally nobody should hear this song.

[@giddygoon73]

Yep, it's cursed. 😒

[@Pokaroquai]

But yeah , its still good and its still more better than kpop

[@bombytetoo]

@@giddygoon73 "yum yum ill eat you up"

[@NIHIL_EGO]

@@Pokaroquai Pretty Korean boys are living rent free in your head.

[@JetroNetro]

@@bombytetoo crazyman!

[@RedRanger2001]

Y'know, the NES and the Sega 16-bit should've been developed by Namco in-house...

[@setsers1]

😠Yyyyyup.😆

[@bennel3588]

I thought the NES was 8-bit.

[@RedRanger2001]

@@bennel3588 You were speedreading. I said "NES and Sega 16-bit".

[@bennel3588]

@@RedRanger2001 You meant the 16-bit Sega machine. I thought you were posting that the NES and Sega were 16-bit machines. The NES is 8-bit. The only 16-bit Sega machine I know of is called Sega Genesis, but there might be another one that I do not know of.

[@bennel3588]

Whenever someone gets something wrong on KZbin, I usually pretend to agree with them, because I remember when I posted something that meant that I disagree with them, it usually puts us in an argument, and I also get criticized.

[@geminisfl]

I find rather strange how in the Genesis version pacman seems to be biting his tongue all the time

[@Turbulation1]

The instruments used in the genesis version are quite a interesting choice.

[@jasonlee7816]

interesting because it was a cost cutting, lazy, rushed, port (version)?

[@PhantomOfficial07]

@@jasonlee7816 Still better than more than half of the other versions

[@enrimc8454]

Could be way better...

[@axinhedgelion8417]

I believe you mistook the genesis for the master system

[@Turbulation1]

@@axinhedgelion8417 I didn't. Because the Master System is pure PSG so I wouldn't say instruments in that case, and that version's music is quite good on a side note.

[@bbbbzshssaggzxjkxjkfkgjzxf]

15:37 is it just me or is that the most cursed thing I’ve seen yet? Just the MSpaint like drawings and the horrible carnival like music. It just doesn’t feel like something Namco would make...

[@danielt.8573]

The 48K version is not the full game. The Spectrum version is better than the Amstrad, C64 and the MSX versions. Faster, smoother, better colors and music. The Amiga and Sharp 68000 were the best conversions back in the day.

[@josemariapena4226]

The fiesta time that a port for stras has less colores than Spectrum!

[@bortzanator3018]

Oh yeah Arcade original straight to the ZX Spectrum just the way I like it

[@rastislavzima]

What I hate on Amstrad ports is that they are mostly ZX Spectrum direct ports. For crist sake, you can even see spectrum attributes on title screen, was it so hard to paint few pixels? And why is PacMan not yello? its just the color does not affect anything else...

[@evolution3129]

I hallucinated with your channel, I found out, I already signed up. The quality of the videos, the care with the titles and the comparisons ... how creative. Keep it up. I’m from Brazil and I’ll go to your Like channel. I will try to see everyone, kkkk marathon

[@superminingbro4037]

Me: Can I play Pac-Mania? 0:20 Mom: No, we have Pac-Mania at home. Pac-Mania At Home: 1:37

[@chrisketchum8042]

1987 was when this came out?! I thought it came out in the 90s!

[@meredithh8669]

I knowww! It was so ahead of it's time I didn't even know it was made in the 80s until a few years ago!

[@shinjiikari6866]

Same

[@bluberrydee6205]

pretty close

[@DwarfBulborb]

-Rankings- (My opinion) 1st - Sega Genisis (Mega drive) - A nice game. Ghosts are high in frames. Easy for new players. More options 2nd - Sega Master System - I love the coin world secret. Good music and Pac-Man is smooth 3rd - NES - Due to this being most replayed I gave higher ranking. Good music and more family friendly.

[@SamuraiSnake]

Why does the PS1 version use different colors for block town? Edit: I found my answer. It uses the JP rom which has the said stage. The US rom doesn’t.

[@setsers1]

🤨Yeah, I wonder why the US one is shorter but harder.

[@danekunderhill4812]

Being born 79 this was my Pac jam! I think I played nearly all versions in its day:) I remember the first time I played it on the Amiga.. Blew my mind;p

[@hadorstapa]

Given how poor the Amstrad CPC version is compared to what was (and is) possible with its hardware, it makes me wonder how many other versions failed to make best use of the resources available, and how wise it was to have one team programming so many versions. Maybe they would have done better to have platform-specific experts?

[@williamdrum9899]

It was most likely made by the same studio that did the ZX Spectrum version so they just ported it over quickly and added the music

[@basicallysnake]

@@williamdrum9899they probably didn’t even “add” music, as there is a version of the ZX port that uses the AY chip for soundtrack

[@MartinJSUK]

Better game, yes. Better profit margin, no. CPC owners got a lot of lazy ports (as did Amiga owners from the ST, though not here, this Amiga version is mighty).

[@Saxdude26]

There;s something about Block Town's theme in Mania that I instantly fell in love with. I never owned the Acorn Archimedes version, but playing through Mania in the GBA Collection and then the two more recent Museums was an absolute treat. Something about the slightly isometric play style just grabbed me. Heck, whenever I play Pacman 256, I always use the Pac Mania aesthetic, because I just can't get enough of it.

[@rolingthunder8612]

If I remember correctly, there are layout differences between the US and JP arcade versions. of course, the x6800 version uses tthe ladder. unlike most post crash ports of pac-man games to consoles, the nes and genesis ports were ported by external western developers, at a time when namco usually ported their games in house. they were both pubblished by tengen (which is to be expected given parent company Atari games was a sister company to namco), who outsourced the nes port to westwood (soon to become king of the RTS genre, or at least the one to beat blizard within an inch of their lives) and the genesis port to Utah based Sculptured software, who had previously did contract work for Atari corp, including an atari800 port of mario bros, which was commissioned after atari lost the source code to their own unreleased version.

[@mastersproutgamer9327]

Description: Pac-Man hasn't been released as a standalone title on modern consoles. Me: ...until 2022, when it saw a release as part of the Arcade Archives series.

[@zbroadcast3414]

Literally the most underrated Pac-Man game of all time!

[@maestr02.06]

Man the SHARP X68000 port is arcade perfect

[@IAmA7]

The Namco System 1 board and the X68000 actually have a sound chip in common with each other, the Yamaha YM2151.

[@maestr02.06]

@@IAmA7 thanks for the info

[@bangerbangerbro]

They usually are.

[@deathmetalmaniac9647]

The arcade version really blows my mind with the animation crazy to think it came out in 87

[@CosmicToons]

Best version (aside from Arcade): Sharp Worst version: SEGA Master System

[@yordansic]

I don’t see how anyone could like the Amiga version; you can barely even see the pellets.

[@desiv1170]

That's just the way it appears on the capture. Not a problem on the real Amiga. Weird tho...

[@bangerbangerbro]

I can see them just fine both on a real Amiga and in this video. The Amiga version is the only one I have actually played.

[@setsers1]

@@bangerbangerbro for real?

[@BAZFANSHOTHITSClassicTunes]

First played this on the Atari STe, then Amiga. its an ok Pacman game,my fave level is "The Park" it has a great chip tune for it. Another spectacular comparison. Thanks.

[@rolloff305]

8-)8-)😙😙😙

[@regisdumoulin]

Someone did a version specific to the Atari STe, not shown on this video which is very close to the Amiga version. Worth a try if you still have your Atari

[@BAZFANSHOTHITSClassicTunes]

@@regisdumoulin I sold it to my Uncle to offset the cost of A1200. Still went round to his house to play it tho. The STe with the blitter couold have used overscan for the game, ill see if i can get a image somewere. Thanks.

[@AullidodelamuerteZ]

At the time it came out of the arcade, pre-rendered 3D graphics were ahead of its time.

[@rodrigoalves-cg6xv]

There is a hack that improves the Genesis version, it's really great. Search for "Pac-Mania arcade style tiles/sprites/colors"

[@setsers1]

AWESOME!!😊

[@namangupta86]

I liked the Amiga version the best due to increased field of view and the graphics. But, the slow speed of pac man is a deal breaker for me. The second best version that I like is the x68000. But it's too buggy. The last version that i found to be the best compromise is a hack of genesis pac MANIA that changes the colours to look like the arcade version. While having a good field of view and nice balanced speed of pac man. I surely wished that a SNES version would have existed. It would have been the best. But sadly, it was never ported.

[@soniccourtney2171]

snes will look like genesis. because snes most games looked like the genesis ver of them

[@namangupta86]

@@soniccourtney2171 Even if SNES version looked like the genesis version. Even then it would have been great because colours is the one thing that's missing from genesis version. That would have been rectified in SNES due to much bigger color pallette compatibility.

[@brandonhasworld7078]

@@soniccourtney2171 hello me from 1 year ago.

[@brandonhasworld7078]

@@namangupta86 The snes has 255 colors and genesis it is limited but a genesis game running on the snes will have it's genesis general palette, without the "power of blast processing" it can run well.

[@CoolDudeClem]

I never realised back in the day how un-naturally fast the C64 version was! It was the only version of the game I'd played back then. And once again I see Amstrad CPC and MSX owners get stuck with a piss-poor Spectrum port!

[@bangerbangerbro]

The spectrum port of this isn't as bad as a lot of games.

[@Artur-vh3nk]

It is fast because there is a large zoom of the board and of course the awful, low resolution graphics - as always on the C64

[@bangerbangerbro]

@@Artur-vh3nk Are you talking about the C64 or spectrum versions? There isn't any zoom in the C64 version is there? I imagine it is running in tilemap mode where it wouldn't really be necessary.

[@Artur-vh3nk]

@@bangerbangerbro No:) isn't any zoom. Best wishes Stevie Wonder...

[@bangerbangerbro]

@@Artur-vh3nk You are making jokes about yourself?

[@reillywalker195]

I've played this one on GameCube and GBA. It's one of my favourite Pac-Man games, and it blew my mind as a kid to think arcade games looked so good in the 1980s.

[@InsidiousOne]

J2ME was a powerful platform, but why was the sound so poor, even on the most advanced phones? No game was able to play more than 1 souns simultaneously, even the advanced 3D games

[@gunma747j]

It uses midi,thats why

[@InsidiousOne]

@@gunma747j so what? Isn't it possible to leave one midi channel for the game sounds to be played?

[@gunma747j]

@@InsidiousOne probably can't,most J2ME games didn't features simultaneously bgm&sfx playback or just lacks sfx

[@EliteSpectre]

the sharp x86 version is hands down, the absolute best native port ever.

[@ordinary_magician]

Best arcade Pac-Man to me because you can actually save yourself if you get yourself trapped between two ghosts like a dumbass

[@dayanemenezes300]

20% of the time I die by getting cornered in normal Pac-Man Jumping solves that.

[@sudhanshupratap2430]

17:18 and 17:28 are my favourite parts :)

[@bluberrydee6205]

The times where they avoid a scared ghost infuriates me for some reason

[@TwiMil2008]

7:33 why does this sound like if PAC-MANIA got on Neo Geo Pocket Color?

[@YChromosome99]

I need more details on how to find the PS1 version or is it PS2?

[@RetroGamerFG]

It was part of Namco Museum Vol. 5. It also appears in the Namco Museum on PS2 as an unlockable.

[@YChromosome99]

@@RetroGamerFG thank you

[@LeGlod]

Hi guy, Atari STE version kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZmiwenewiKqja5o

[@retrosutra]

Thanks, we're taking note on that!

[@MelFredriksson]

You forgot the Atari STE version : kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZmiwenewiKqja5o and Atari Falcon version(very early test version), based on X68000 : kzbin.info/www/bejne/oITdlWevndt7hZI

[@superspacemutant5041]

The maze reminds me of lego

[@crococatcreative]

ps1 version is probably the best. accurate speed, colours are almost spot on if a little darker, based on the japanese version. x68000 is close but its very slow and oddly stretched, giving the ps1 an advantage over it. GBA version is solid too but has less view, accurate colours though and while the music is loopy as fuck it cut out the annoying parts of the block land music.

[@PhilBo-fp9mz]

Im still wondering why they chose lego type things as the map

[@TheRealDustinNunn]

The worst version of Pac-Mania is the GBA (Game Boy Advance) version, which was part of the Pac-Man Collection compilation cartridge because the GBA version of Pac-Mania will not save your high scores and enter your initials.

[@MR33EE]

No the worst version is everything else except arcade, gba, sharp x68000, nes, and PlayStation

[@geometricentric]

i mean, you’ve gotta consider that it’s an early gba game

[@AmigaBoingBlog]

The best versions were of course the Amiga and Arcade versions (both begin with "A" as well, for Awesome, Asthetically Pleasing to Play, and Always Great Graphically)

[@igordantasneres6103]

Archimedes version is the better one

[@AmbersKnight]

@@igordantasneres6103 The Archie version graphically and sonically is great. The only thing that lets it down is that the volume of the music doesn;t go down when you eat a power pill. This is an essential part of the game as it means you can tell when the power pill runs out even if you can't see the ghosts as the volume comes back up. Not having that hurts the game a little but if they fixed that I would agree it would be pretty damn perfect. As it is its a fantastic version.

[@GPWT-video]

О, я тоже проходил Пакмана, но только на Денди. И еще у меня есть гейм плей игры Pacman Doodle от гугла)

[@majapolakov7522]

There's also an Atari STE enhanced version out there which is infinitely better.

[@retrosutra]

So sorry, we missed that one... we're taking note of that fact to make an upgraded version of the comparison.

[@TheWASHINGMACHINEBOY]

4:49 pac-turtle be like (because pac-man is moving slowly)

[@jakeinator2005]

To me, the GBA version is best for being on the go and (bias included) I owned it and discovered it on my hand me down GBA SP from my cousin Josh. He just so happened to own the Pac Man Collection and handed it down to me, and I took a severe liking to Pac Mania, which in my opinion, works with a screen crunch, not to mention how close it emulates the arcade version, which also allows for me to replay it on websites like arcadespot for all of time since THEY don't use Flash.

[@RandomUser8P]

Same, I had that pac man collection on my GBA too. I really loved that one pac-man game where at the end you have to defeat the giant mech ghost by shooting all the pellets in the maze at it

[@jakeinator2005]

@@RandomUser8P That sounds like Pac-Arrangement. Why don't you give it a try on Arcadespot? It's a real treat and potentially a massive throwback to BOTH our childhoods. I'll even give you the link! arcadespot.com/game/pac-man-collection/

[@RandomUser8P]

@@jakeinator2005 Yep! That’s the one! I loved this game collection, sadly I don’t have it anymore despite still having my SP and most of the other games I grew up with

[@jakeinator2005]

@@RandomUser8P I dont have it either however like I said: browser emulation. I'm reliving my childhood with it.

[@B-RY-N]

GBA port’s music loop is shorter than my sanity

[@SpeccyHorace]

You should have played the 128k version of the ZX Spectrum port as it has music.

[@kirstenkees755]

The Sharp X68000 version seemed like it copied the arcade version of PAC-MANIA. It’s really odd to me. And the ZX Spectrum, it didn’t have any music, it just had a click-like chomp sound. It might have seen to be a weird version. Amstrad CPC, that one was honestly pretty bad, because the display was only turquoise and black. But anyway, this is an interesting video. Thanks!

[@julioaramayo1304]

Ah yes, so im south amerincan (bolivia, cochabamba) and we have a movie theater called cine center (which is really big and the best one in cochabamba), so they had an arcade zone, they had pac-mania, man, meanwhile my cousins, my sisters (which all have higher age than me) so the 3 were playing teken (which its machine is near the pac-mania one) so i played pac-mania, man i couldnt, literally level 2 and 6 ghosts, level 3 and 8 ghosts, there was a point where jumping did not help It didnt have map select, so i played from start always

[@A332makes_animation]

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[@memedood]

Ps1 goated

[@giddygoon73]

30:00 this is the version I got but on a real arcade

[@Sergiovsousa]

Nice music on MSX and they even tinted Pacman, way better than the usual direct Spectrum port conversion

[@shadowpersonoftheunknown6245]

Why was this not on SNES?

[@jasonlee7816]

SNES is Nintendo console Nintendo has the final say

[@Mr.Face222]

​@@jasonlee7816So is NES, and yet...

[@andreinoooo]

Nothing to say... Sharp x68000 had the best coin-op conversions

[@BAZFANSHOTHITSClassicTunes]

I remember i have this on 360. Dont undertsand why there isn't a full screen mode instead of this puny little window. Its a disgrace.

[@CristobalElMario]

Arcade: Yeah, the game we all know!! ZX Spectrum: The Pac-Man eating a dot looks like an little fart Commodore 64: A little worse but is okay Amstrad CPC: Looks like an ZX Spectrum game, again... MSX: Literally the same as Amstrad CPC but the music is good Amiga: A decent conversion, but the music is good Atari ST: Huh, this is worse than the Amiga MSX2: The music like an FM Master System is good, and his limitations it's okay Sharp X68000: *The best conversion in the Arcade* ! NES: This version, woof (arf), tengen with the pirate games, this is little bad Acorn Archimeds: Decent music, bad colors and some changes! Master System: Not that system is powerful than NES? But, yeah, little worse and little good Genesis: WHAT THE HECK, Genesis have more colors and better music than Master Systen, but, this is an poor conversion PS1: Very good port, like the Sharp X68000! GBA: Literally the same as Arcade, the music is the same but poor, and they cutted an part of the music, but, is cool whitouth the music and sound effects. PS2/GC/Windows: Sound effect's pitch is higher but perfect conversion! J2ME: Looks like an Saturn game, but worse PS3/Xbox 360/Windows: Literally also the same as Arcade. My favorite is the Sharp X68000, PS2/GC/Windows, GBA and PS3/Xbox 360/Windows.

[@rustyboltskpears368]

ZX spectrum version shown was the 48k version and not the superior 128k version which had nicer sound and music

[@duffman18]

yeah this video is great but is missing a few versions. Wasn't unusual for the home computers to have multiple ports of the same game, done years apart, by different developers, to account for more powerful hardware and just sometimes the initial port was botched and they wanted to do it properly by starting over from scratch again. Same with Dos. An 80s DOS PC would get a port and then in like the mod 90s a new far better port would be done, also for DOS, or windows. Home computers are somewhat hard to document though. With bedroom programmers, the number of games for the home computers, especially the micros like the Speccy, was just ridiculously big, and you'd get like a cassette with 10 games on it free with a magazine, and so many of them were never documented, they were so often just games written by kids in a few weeks and sent in to the magazine who put it on the tape and then that was it for a release. It must be hard to do a video like this including the computers because it is impossible to show every version of every game for every computer because the info just isn't there let alone the ROM for the game. You show what you can get. Which is why this is still a great video

[@rustyboltskpears368]

@@duffman18 When doing spectrum versions the 128k is always the definitive version and likely on the same tape

[@martagarcia5034]

Many ZX-Spectrum games when you run it in 128K you get extra sounds, it is coded, a z80 assembly sub-routine to autodetect for AY chip (exs: Exolon, Rex, Rick Dangerous, Revenge of Doh, ...) 48K Spectrums with AY sound interface plugged in it also get sounds benefits (i don't remember the name of this interface). So, it is the very same version, although there is cases that the developer made 128K version. For example, Renegade game has 48K and 128K versions.

[@rustyboltskpears368]

@@martagarcia5034 yeah I owned one 128k+2 still do... I just meant the 128k version game or the game running on this hardware, should be shown if comparing between systems to show the game in its best light for the format presented. Likewise if showing the pc version you wouldn't show it in EGA mode when VGA or SVGA is its best mode.

[@VikyValdes]

15:49/26:03/24:26 why is pacman jumping so fast

[@GJogos742]

Faz um tempo que eu não jogo esse jogo.

[@DONNIE_DINO]

Wow i never noticed of all this version i only play the Sega Genesis version

[@theenchanteddiamond6842]

I like the Sega genesis (mega drive) one

[@pasteklaztek815]

720p and later : 60 fps 144 > 480p : 30 fps

[@BOX_corporation.]

15:36 COOL BANGING PAC-MAN MUSIC NO *CLICK*-_BAIT_

[@RetroDawn]

The Atari STe and Falcon versions weren't included. They were modern, hobbyist ports, but they are quite good. The Falcon port is sadly unfinished, though.

[@NightSprinter]

I used to play the hell out of the J2ME version back in 2007. Same for that port of Popeye.

[@setsers1]

Awesome!!😊

[@NightSprinter]

@@setsers1 oh yeah, and the mobile phone port of Popeye was amazing. Not only was it extremely faithful to the original Nintendo arcade game, but the "Special" mode was where it was at. This mode had updated graphics, a new stage or two, and even bonus levels. Plus, play sessions earned you tokens which could be used to actually get comic strips to enjoy (though you'd still get charged for the downloads). A truly comprehensive port.

[@SONICBOOM1889]

15:42 That title screen looks pretty good for a home computer console.

[@EclipseX46]

The Sega Genesis is the best!

[@jeffmarks1996]

i like the arcade, genesis, nes, playstation, game boy advance, playstatiuon 2/xbox/gamecube (2001/2002/2005) & playstation 3/xbox 360/windows (2014) versions the best.

[@desiado4701]

Thanks for upload. FYI the Archimedes version was released in1988 grandslam. I had the game before I had an Archimedes and took it to school which did have Archimedes to play. I left school by 1989. It got re-released possibly in 1991.

[@metravolsam]

Other versions: normal pac man sounds Zx spectrum: *knock* *knock*

[@cristinamisaros8271]

No offence but I dun lik ur profile picture

[@martin0499]

PS1 definitely looks the best but from its contemporaries X68000 and Amiga are great

[@BluCoolKnux]

The only thing I can’t stand about the Genesis version is Pac-Man’s *T O N G U E .* Also, there was another PS2-era version of this game hidden in Namco Museum (Xbox, PS2, GameCube). You can unlock it by obtaining 20,000 points in Ms. Pac-Man.

[@hellokadooya]

Damsung Vietnam!!!

[@TheWASHINGMACHINEBOY]

the best part of this game is the music

[@nicthecat]

no these are the best graphics of a pacman arcade game

[@TheWASHINGMACHINEBOY]

@@nicthecat and that

[@ezekiel9268]

The blue one looks ugly.😂

[@linc_gb]

The arcade version is definitely the best. Everything that came after it until the PS1 looks like a crappy Scratch port, and the PS1 and later have weird contrast, weird music, etc. until you get to the 2014 version, which looks like an emulated version of the game.

[@thedinobros1218]

Actually, I never knew that Pac-Mania was an arcade game, I always thought it was an original game for the NES. The only reason I ever bought it was because it is about PAC-MAN.

[@l3o1xii]

The best one is the mega drive one / genesis one and the master system is good to

[@tylereash2892]

The pac-mania arcade has outstanding graphics for 1987

[@НадеждаЖаран]

My Favorite Version NES

[@CelentAle]

Amiga and new AmigaOS4, the best! 💪 😎👍