Download Pac-Man (DOS) game

Pac-Man is a classic arcade game created by Namco and first released in Japan on May 22, 1980. It was later released in North America by Midway Games. The game was designed by Toru Iwatani and has become one of the most famous and influential video games of all time. The main goal of Pac-Man is to navigate a maze, eating all the pac-dots (small pellets) while avoiding the four ghosts named Blinky, Pinky, Inky, and Clyde. There are four larger dots, known as power pellets, located in the corners of the maze. When Pac-Man eats a power pellet, the ghosts temporarily turn blue and can be eaten for bonus points.

Pac-Man abandonware downloads

Play Pac-Man online for free Download Pac-Man - for DOS

Do you have trouble running this game on Windows? Read this guide.

Main executable game file: pacman/PACMAN.EXE.

DOS games can't run on Windows. You need a DOS emulator like DOSbox or D-Fend Reloaded. Follow these instructions to play DOS games on Windows 10 or later systems.

Pac-Man review

PC Magazine (1994): "The PC Pac-Man is nearly identical in design, sound effects, and appearance to the arcade version. However, the play is somewhat sluggish by comparison and occasionally unresponsive to the joystick. The PC version allows you to select the level of maze at which you want to start, and there is a pause and reset control. However, there is no joystick adjustment routine. In speed and ease of play, Pac-Man seems to suffer in comparison with some of the more recent IBM PC arrivals such as Lode Runner, which was written specifically for microcomputers, and J-Bird, which is a clone of the arcade hit Q-Bert. Nevertheless, the daddy of them all has arrived on the PC, and it is probably worth a place in the collection of any serious gameplayer."

Retro gamer collector's corner:

Namco Networks sold a downloadable Windows PC version of Pac-Man in 2009 which also includes an enhanced mode which replaces all of the original sprites with the sprites from Pac-Man Championship Edition.

Coleco's tabletop Mini-Arcade versions of the game yielded 1.5 million units sold in 1982. Nelsonic Industries produced a Pac-Man LCD wristwatch game with a simplified maze also in 1982.

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More information on Pac-Man

Status: abandonware
Input: keyboard
Distributed on: 5,25 floppy disk
Also published for: Atari 2600, Apple II, Atari 8-bit, MSX, NES, Commodore 64, VIC-20, ZX Spectrum, Game Boy, Game Gear, Xbox
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