Pac-Man II

For the home console game, see Pac-Man 2: The New Adventures. For the electronic handheld game, see PacMan2.

Pac-Man II
Artwork from the arcade machine (side art).
Developer	Unknown
Publisher	IRECSA
Series	N/A
Genres	Maze
Release date(s)	1981 (?); possibly cancelled
Arcade system	Namco Pac-Man (?)
Number of players	1-2 players
Input methods	4-way joystick

Pac-Man II is an arcade game released (?) around 1981 by IRECSA.

Overview

The Pac-Man II cabinet was produced by IRECSA, a distributor of "recreational" (or "recreativas") Bally Midway arcade machines in Spain. The machine repurposes artwork from IRECSA's release of Pac-Man, using a similar shape to the Midway "cabaret" machine model.

The game has been stated to be a variation of the original Pac-Man; however, it isn't explicitly clear if this refers to the game software itself. Assuming the software is altered, is speculated that the game is a hack of Pac-Man. Besides this, no further information regarding Pac-Man II is known; it is possible that the machine was canceled entirely, but had test-marketed or "mock-up" models created for it.

Trivia

• The order of the ghosts on the front of the cabinet is identical to that seen on the Pac-Man promotional flyer from Midway.
  • This particular flyer was reprinted by IRECSA when they distributed Pac-Man in Spain.
  • Notably, the colors of the ghosts on the cabinet do not match how they appear in the original game or on the flyer. Inky is colored red; Pinky is colored yellow; and both Blinky and Clyde are colored blue.
• Some versions of the Pac-Man II machine use white coloring behind the central artwork instead of yellow. Despite this, one documented machine appears to still use yellow paint.

Gallery

Original arcade machine

Marquee

External links

• Pac-Man II on Recreativas (Spanish)