In 2002, Denki released an obscure port of Pac-Man to Sky Active's now defunct service, Sky Games. The game could only be accessible by either purchasing a Play-to-Play or Game Pass payment.
Gameplay[]
The core gameplay of the original remains the same, but there are many key differences:
- The Pac-Dots are now referred as "pills".
- The Power Pellet is changed to resemble an orange energizer with a "P" icon, and are renamed to "power pills".
- Up to four players are able to play the game, instead of two.
- The game's levels includes mazes from Ms. Pac-Man.
- There is a flashing green variant of the Power Pellet which occasionally spawns in the center of the maze known as the "Special Power Pill", complete with the "S" icon, and allowed Pac-Man to change the Ghosts to fruit bonuses (depending on what level the player is currently in) which acts similar to the Cherry power-up from Pac-Man 256.
- Inky and Clyde switched positions whenever the ghosts are currently in the Monster Pen.
- The original intermissions (except for the first one) has since been replaced by four different versions of the first intermission - each adding Pinky, Inky, and Clyde.
- The first intermission has been modified to feature Pac-Man pursuing Blinky in his regular form instead of his super form. The latter of Pac-Man's form has since been re-used for a fifth intermission of the port after completing the fifteenth round.
- The port features fifteen different fruits: the eight fruits from the original game, followed by three coins and four gems (of varying colors).
Removal[]
The Sky Games port of Pac-Man was taken down on January 31, 2015 when the Sky Games service was shut down by Sky Active.
However, the creators behind the port of the game have eventually re-added the game to their site; as part of a side project to port their produced games that were formerly part of Sky Games onto the HTML platform.[1]
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