While they look like the original Pac-Man ghosts of yore, they act slightly differently this time out, each type having its own unique behavior pattern that can be learned and exploited.
If you get caught up in it, you lose your one and only life, so the only option is to keep on moving up the screen into fresh territory.Īs you might expect from a Pac-Man game, ghosts patrol the maze and provide further threat to our yellow friend's survival. This glitch slowly turns the bottom of the maze into a series of random characters and numbers, essentially consuming it. Providing the impetus to move forward is a glitch that's based on the original Pac-Man's infamous kill screen, a game-ending bug that occurs on level 256 when the game tries to roll over to zero. It was a simple stroke of genius that created a whole new way to play Pac-Man, while still being faithful to the 36-year-old Golden Age coin-op's gameplay.īasically, Pac-Man 256 takes the original game's top-down viewpoint, gives it an isometric spin to the right, and replaces the screen-sized maze with one that's procedurally generated and scrolls perpetually upwards. Created by Hipster Whale, with help from 3 Sprockets, the free-to-play game iterated on the classic Pac-Man formula of eating pellets, and turned it into an endless runner variant. Pac-Man 256 was a big hit on mobile phones last summer. Some content, such as this article, has been migrated to VG247 for posterity after USgamer's closure - but it has not been edited or further vetted by the VG247 team.
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