Pac-Man Battle Royale (パックマンバトルロイヤル Pakkuman Batoru Roiyaru) is an arcade game released by Namco Bandai Games in 2010, in commemoration of Pac-Man's 30th anniversary. The game would later be followed by a console-released sequel, Pac-Man Party Royale; as well as a direct arcade successor titled Pac-Man Battle Royale CHOMPionship.
Gameplay[]
Battle Royale is a multiplayer-focused game in which two or more Pac-Men appear on-screen simultaneously. Each player controls one of four Pac-Men (yellow, red, blue, or pink), and must eat the other Pac-Men on screen while avoiding ghosts. Eating a Power Pellet will turn the Pac-Man huge (à la Super Pac-Man), and allow him to eat his opponents. Players will bump into each other if they make contact (without a Power Pellet), bumping them backward; this can also be used as a strategy to send Pac-Men flying into Ghosts.
The maze is set up in a similar fashion to Pac-Man Championship Edition. The game usually consists of 3 to 5 rounds (depending on operation settings), with the mazes getting increasingly larger each round. After the final round is completed, each players' final score is tallied. The player who ate/defeated the most Pac-Men is the true winner, but other players are given achievements as well (most fruit collected, most ghosts eaten, etc.).
Machine types[]
Three different arcade machine types are known to have been produced:
- "Cocktail" model: The first model produced, based on the classic "cocktail" tabletop machines of the 80s. It has two joysticks on opposing ends of the cabinet.
- "Deluxe" model: The Deluxe machine model features four pedestals for each player, with a large, flat-screen monitor. This model is likely the most common of the three cabinets, being widely distributed in the United States.
- "Pedestal only" model: Towards the later 2010s, the Deluxe cabinet model was no longer sold with a screen. Vendors could only buy the joystick pedestal, which could then be connected to a separate (generic) monitor or a projector.
Home Ports[]
- iOS (iPhone, iPad, etc; now defunct)
- An iOS "demo" app of Pac-Man Battle Royale was released in 2011, which only lasts one round. It was effectively just an advertisement for the arcade game; even showing a picture of the machine on the title screen, while stating "Before you go to the arcade, give it a try!!".[1]
- Two selection modes were available: Local Battle, in which all players would use the same device, and Linked Battle, which allowed multiple devices to connect via Bluetooth.[1]
- Nintendo Switch
- Included in Pac-Man Museum +.
- PlayStation 3
- Included in Pac-Man Museum.
- PlayStation 4
- Included in Pac-Man Museum +.
- Windows PC
- Included in Pac-Man Museum and Pac-Man Museum +.
- Xbox 360
- Included in Pac-Man Museum.
- Xbox One/Xbox Series
- Included in Pac-Man Museum +.
Trivia[]
- An unreleased Xbox 360 game titled Pac-Man Party, developed around 2009, is a precursor to Pac-Man Battle Royale; with its main gameplay mode featuring nearly identical mechanics. The exact reasoning behind the game being reworked into an arcade release is unknown.
- This was the first original Pac-Man arcade game since Pac-Man Arrangement, which released 14 years before Battle Royale.
- When a round ends and the results show up, the player(s) who lost can press the start button to throw tomatoes on the winning player’s portrait.
- There was reportedly an alternate, later version of the Battle Royale software, which ended up never being released. The exact changes are unknown, but one confirmed difference is that the alternate build would have three CPU opponents in single-player rounds, instead of just one opponent like the standard build. This feature may have been incorporated into Pac-Man Battle Royale CHOMPionship.[2]
- While Battle Royale was technically released in Japan (even predating the game's U.S. launch), it did not enter full production in the region; only select, Namco-operated arcades and events featured the machine.
- A set of plush toys based on Pac-Man Battle Royale was released by Toy Factory in 2017 (alongside a Ms. Pac-Man set), featuring the four different Pac-Man colors.
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References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 https://hrmac.tistory.com/9
- ↑ https://youtu.be/ONdQFAb1J3c?t=892 (at timeslot 14:52)