Pac-Man Battle Royale

Pac-Man Battle Royale
Japanese flyer for the game.
Developer	Namco Bandai Games
Publisher	Namco Bandai Games
Series	N/A
Genres	Maze, Battle Royale
Release date(s)	JP: September 2010 US: January 21, 2011
Arcade system	Namco System 147
Number of players	1-4 players
Input methods	4-way joystick

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 to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Pac-Man. Two different cabinet types exist; one is a tabletop game and the other features four pedestals for each player, with a large projector-like monitor.

Gameplay

The 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. The maze is set up in a similar fashion to Pac-Man Championship Edition. The game usually consists of 3 rounds, with the mazes getting increasingly larger each round. After said third round is completed, the final scores are tallied. The one who ate the most Pac-Men is the true winner, but other players are given achievements as well (most fruit collected, most ghosts eaten, etc.).

Home Ports

• iOS (iPhone, iPad, etc; now defunct)
• PlayStation 3
• Windows PC
• Xbox 360

Trivia

• This was the first original Pac-Man arcade game since Pac-Man Arrangement, which released 14 years before Battle Royale.
• Some of the home ports of Battle Royale (mainly the mobile version) are only playable in singleplayer.
• 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.

Gallery

Screenshot (Pac-Man Museum)

Arcade machine (model 1).

Arcade machine (model 2).

English flyer for the game.

Japanese flyer for the game.

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