6" Collectible Retro Pac-Man Micro Player (Electronic Games)

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Arcade Action: Beat the Machine". Computer and Video Games. No.1. United Kingdom: EMAP. November 1981. p.28.

Its dual speakers may be the most impressive part of the machine’s hardware. The sound on each game is about as full and immersive as you can imagine for a home arcade machine.Gameplay In-game screenshot. The ghosts are in the center with Pac-Man below them. At bottom left is the player's life count, and at bottom right the level icon (in this case a cherry). At top is the player's score. Mateas, Michael (2003). "Expressive AI: Games and Artificial Intelligence" (PDF). Proceedings of Level up: Digital Games Research Conference, Utrecht, Netherlands. Archived from the original (PDF) on May 14, 2012 . Retrieved September 21, 2007. Game Board Schematic" (PDF). Midway Pac-Man Parts and Operating Manual. Chicago, Illinois: Midway Games. December 1980. Archived (PDF) from the original on September 23, 2015 . Retrieved July 20, 2009. Race, David (May 30, 2013). Perfect Pac-Man: May 22, 2013 – 3hrs 28min 49sec (2 of 2). David Race. Archived from the original on January 2, 2016 . Retrieved January 5, 2016– via YouTube.

Oh, and there might also be the people who use it as conspicuous consumption to show to others what they like and/or what quirky things they own. Who knows.

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Pac-Man is considered by many to be one of the most influential video games of all time. [124] [125] [126] The game established the maze chase game genre, [124] was the first video game to make use of power-ups, [127] and the individual ghosts have deterministic artificial intelligence (AI) that reacts to player actions. [128] Pac-Man is considered one of the first video games to have demonstrated the potential of characters in the medium; [124] [129] its title character was the first original gaming mascot, it increased the appeal of video games with female audiences, and it was gaming's first broad licensing success. [124] It is often cited as the first game with cutscenes (in the form of brief comical interludes about Pac-Man and Blinky chasing each other), [130] :2 though actually Space Invaders Part II employed a similar style of between-level intermissions in 1979. [131] Ciraolo, Michael (October–November 1985). "Top Software: A List of Favorites". II Computing: 51. Archived from the original on March 13, 2016 . Retrieved January 28, 2015. The disadvantages are that they do not have the original artwork because there are so many games on them. It also is not as much fun to collect or show off your favorite arcade game when it is all in one machine. Basically, this is for people who really, REALLY like that X so much they want to build it with lego once or twice and don't mind spending a lot of money just for that relatively short experience. Shiro Sano Cast as Dr. Pacman in Kamen Rider Heisei Generations". Tokusatsu Network. November 5, 2016.The Quarter Arcade cabs come with the original artwork and marquee for each game just like every product on this list. Quarter Arcades stand out among the competition with a few features and additional quality materials. The original Pac-Man game plays a key role in the plot of Ernest Cline's video game-themed science fiction novel Ready Player One.