Not to be confused with World's Biggest Pac-Man.
World's Largest Pac-Man is an arcade game, developed by Raw Thrills and released in 2016 by Bandai Namco Amusement America. It is an enhanced version of the original Pac-Man. In 2017, an update for the game was released that added Galaga as a playable game.[1] The machine can be set to play either of them or only one of them; however, Galaga does not seem to be enhanced in any way.
Gameplay[]
The gameplay is largely identical to the original Pac-Man arcade game, with several new additions and alterations:
- A second player is able to play simultaneously, similarly to the 1996 version of Pac-Man Arrangement; also like Arrangement, the second player controls a green Pac-Man.
- The maze cycles through different colors throughout gameplay.
- When two players play together, a light colored string will connect to the 2 Pac-Men from the bottom left and right corners to help remind players who's playing as who. This is a nod to the arcade game Pac-Man Battle Royale.
- A high score table is shown for every maze level, not just after getting a game over.
- The screen is enormous, made entirely of LED lights.
- Companies and businesses can upload photos into the machine for them to be advertised during Attract mode.
- Both games have continue screens, where the player can pay for an extra game and continue where they got a game over at.
- Instead of spawning at the center of the maze, Fruit will hop around the maze like it did in Ms. Pac-Man. The fruit will also cycle through different fruits, each one being a different point value.
- At the end of a maze, points are totaled up between players, and whoever got the most points is labeled the winner. This is nearly identical to Pac-Man Arrangement '96's multiplayer score screen.
Trivia[]
- When it was initially unveiled at IAAPA 2015, World's Largest Pac-Man allowed attendees to play Galaga.[2] This feature was removed from the initial release but was added back in through the 2017 update.[1]
- If the player gets a high score and enters their name as profanity, it will be replaced with one of the ghosts' names.
- In 2019, a "World's Largest Frogger" game was test-marketed by Raw Thrills, seemingly intended as a conversion kit for the World's Largest Pac-Man machines. However, this Frogger kit was ultimately never released.[3]