Pac-Man Battle Royale

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Pac-Man Battle Royale
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Developer(s) Namco Bandai Games
Publisher(s) Namco Bandai Games [a]
Director(s) Kunito Komori
Series Pac-Man
Platform(s) Arcade
Release
  • JP: 2011
  • NA: January 21, 2011
Genre(s) Maze
Arcade system Namco System 147

Pac-Man Battle Royale [b] is a 2011 maze battle-royale video game developed and published by Namco Bandai Games for arcades. An installment in the Pac-Man series, it was made in celebration of the series' 30th anniversary. [1] The game sees up to four players control multi-colored Pac-Men as they try to compete to be the last Pac-Man standing.

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It was released for arcades in January 2011, and was released on several platforms afterwards following its release.

Gameplay

In Pac-Man Battle Royale, up to four players can compete at once, choosing a game length of between three and nine rounds. Each player controls a differently coloured Pac-Man character (yellow, pink, blue and red); a single player faces one computer-controlled Pac-Man opponent. The players move throughout a maze, avoiding ghosts and attempting to eat dots and power pellets scattered throughout. New dots and pellets appear whenever the players eat them all. In addition; if any player eats a bonus item that appears next to the ghosts' cage, all remaining dots and pellets are immediately removed and replaced.

When a Pac-Man eats a power pellet, they grow in size and can eat the ghosts and any un-powered Pac-Men until the pellet wears off. During this time, the un-powered Pac-Men turn blue but retain an outline of their original colour, and they cannot eat ghosts.

Un-powered Pac-Men are eliminated from the round when they either run into a ghost or are eaten by a powered-up Pac-Man. If two Pac-Men of equal strength run into each other, they are knocked backward a short distance but suffer no harm otherwise. Blue Pac-Men cannot knock or pass through each other.

Each round lasts a maximum of two minutes, with an on-screen countdown for the last 10 seconds. The last remaining Pac-Man wins the round. All players are brought back into the game at the start of each new round; after the final round, the player with the most victories is the overall winner.

Development and release

Pac-Man Battle Royale was first displayed in the United States in a playable state at the 2010 Amusement Expo show in Las Vegas. [2] [3] in March 2010. It was then seen again at an after-party event during E3, where Namco America brought four cabinets for attendees to play. [4] [5] Namco also took the unusual step of throwing a party prior to the launch of the game at the Whiskey River Saloon in Madison, Wisconsin. [6] It was not seen in Japan until September 2010 at the Amusement Machine Show, [7] which is opposite of most major Namco arcade releases where they are shown off in Japan first and are later brought to the US.

While the game was reported for a release in September 2010, [8] it was delayed for unknown reasons until late November 2010. Namco Bandai officially announced the release of the game on in North America on January 21, 2011. [9]

Ports and legacy

A demo version was released on the iOS App Store on January 28, 2011. [1] The game was ported to Pac-Man Museum for a digital release (Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Microsoft Windows) in 2014. The game is included in the compilation title Pac-Man Museum+ (Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch) released in 2022.

The game would inspire several follow-up games, including Pac-Man Party Royale for Apple Arcade, Pac-Man Mega Tunnel Battle for Google Stadia, and Pac-Man 99 for Nintendo Switch.

A direct sequel, Pac-Man Battle Royale Chompionship, was released in June 2022. [10]

Notes

  1. ↑ Released under the Namco brand name.
  2. ↑ Japanese: パックマンバトルロイヤル, Hepburn: Pakkuman Batoru Roiyaru

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