None of the Namco Museum PS1 games were emulations, but ports built from the ground up (keep in mind the only emulation seen at the time the PS1 ruled the land were early arcade games, like Defender, Joust, and the like).

Interesting that Pac-Man has the small nose from the US Midway AC version of the game and the hat from the Japanese AC version in the PSX port.

wow the music of the PCE port is really close to the arcade, closer than the x68k music imo. The graphics are nice too.

What pains me the most about the Amiga port is the fact that we could have gotten something much better. I don't know if you knew about this, but a while ago a rare prototype of the Amiga version was found, which was not just a rehash of the Atari ST port like the final Amiga version was. It features the actual stage theme, better collisions, smoother gameplay, and a retro fan longing for what could have been... Here's a KZfaq link for the prototype Amiga port: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hcmJZsmDuKrPZqc.html

Needless to say, this game ended up becoming a playable stage in "Super Smash Bros." for the Wii U.

Hey everybody, someone found a prototype of Pac-Land for the Amiga and it looks completely different, but in a good way. It looks way much better than the final release, graphics are a little more detailed and now it includes the main theme of Pac-Land (although the music and sound is pretty much the same as the final release). You should definitely check it out Retro Core, it looks very interesting. Here’s the link btw: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hcmJZsmDuKrPZqc.html

The PC Engine one is pretty great, but I think it lacks those stages where you have a flashlight. The Lynx one's got 'em! C64 one is surprisingly nice looking. I'll have to see if it works in NTSC (probably not hehe)

I am nearly sure if you press the select button on the title screen of the PC Engine version, you can change the control method to the more traditional "dpad moves, button jump" mode.

Now in 2020: A new port of pac land exists on the switch

I feel like I’m the only o e that enjoys the Famicom version. Lol. That’s all that matters though is that I’m having fun.

I was a big fan of the cartoon series back then. I played this a lot on the TurboGrafx and later on the PlayStation. I like the game. The controls can be a bit sensitive , especially when you are running. The TurboGrafx version added intermission scenes every 8 rounds, which wasn't in the arcade version, and adds a nice ending. It also gave you an option to play a hard version of the game, which was the same levels, but with increased enemy speed.

The PC Engine version pretty much nails it, I think. Great stuff!

I'm about to make an Pac-land port that is a parody that is more funny than the original, but PACMAN IS NOW PAAC MEM, CLYDE IS KLAYNEE, PINKY IS PANKY, INKY IS ONKY, BLINKY IS BLANKY, SUE IS ZOO, AND MZ. PAAC MEM

The Atari st and Amiga version looks the same because it was by the the same sprite artist.

I was almost positive that there was a NES port that looked and played very well. I remember, because the NES one was ported to the Wii U

Nice, as always! Dare I say it, the PAL computer ports all look better than the Famicom version! BTW, the trick on the water section is to time the jump of the plank and keep hammering the jump button to get some slight levatation.

Oh God...I remember the cartoon.

The reason the NES/Famicom port is so poor is because it was stored in a base 40K cartridge, which had only a very small amount of room for graphics and level data. Because of this, they had to be very frugal with the tiles they used to build the world map, and were unable to make things look arcade accurate. Super Mario Bros 1 fits in the same size cartridge, but also its world's graphics were a lot less varied, so it could get away with it.

I used to love playing this in the arcades as a nipper, my first platfomer (?), and in abscense of Mario as well - all the secrets in the game, great stuff.

The Arcade and PlayStation versions has audio issues too you know.

Another great comparison video. Home version wise I had the Amiga version which I really enjoyed back in the day. Pac Land was always a solid platform game that sat well with all the others from that era. Seeing it in the Arcade for the first time was an experience, myself and all my friends went mad on it. I'll never forget seeing the PC Engine version in a copy of Computer and Videgames, I would have loved a copy of that at the time.

PC Engine ftw! Such a simple but awesome game :D

The PC Engine port doesn't "look like the Arcade" without the parallax scrollings, which was one of the notable features of the original Arcade game. It's a shame that the PC Engine lacks support for a second background layer, parallax were introduced far before the PC Engine, around 1982, with Moon Patrol or even sooner! But since Pac-Land has rather simple graphics, it's not that a disaster unlike with others PC Engine games like Street Fighter II or Forgotten Worlds. The Lynx port on the other hand has the parallax scrollings and looks really good overall! It's probably a must have for the system but I've read some time ago that it has a glitch and I haven't checked yet if it's a game breaker thing or what...

it would be great to see a modern homebrew for the famicom/nes try to recreate pac-land on it as close to arcade perfect as possible like w/ that homebrew of the original pac-man.

Amazing Graphic for a 1984 game.

Such a good platformer

Do you know arcade version of this game was released a year before Super Mario Bros.

Some insights about Grandslam have come to light, which might help explain the development hell, teams had to endure. Artist Shadligh Dale, has talked of staff being paid a pittance (£400 a month), if at all at times, managers being sacked to save money. No wonder game quality suffered.

For the playstation version, it might look like the Namco version but the one thing that they changed from Pacman is that the nose it's shorter like from the Midway version, still keeping the Eyes from the Namco version. Also, the Playstation version it's re-programmed, infact, all of the PSX Namco Museum games are re-programmed.

You failed to mention you could move aside some objects to get powerups like a helmet that protects pac man from falling projectiles that the ghosts drop

Famicom version looks like someone put Vaseline into my screen. Also the fact is. there was a prototype version of Pacland for the amgia before they ported the st version to amiga.

You missed the NEC PC-8001mk2SR version of the game

Ah the Famicom version. Got it in a cartridge lot with Pac-Man, Mappy and Mappy-Land. Needless to say, Pac-Land was the low point in that lot.

Played this at a mates house on C64 which was the best version out in the UK at the time. Later had it on the Lynx, which i thought at the time, was pretty much arcade perfect, apart from the sound. It also had some nice parallax scrolling which even the PC Engine version never had. Can't believe how bad the Famicom version looks as it should have been on par or slightly better than the C64 version.

Fun fact: The American (and thus the World) version is faster than the original Japanese game, and features the corresponding Hanna Barbera design. Surprised the PC Engine team left it all intact from the original game.

Arcade, Sharp X68000, and PlayStation were perfect ports. Amstrad CPC, ZX spectrum, and MSX were slower ports compare to the arcade. PC Engine is great and impressive. Atari ST and Amiga is by far the worst ports it features extreme floaty jumps, questionable collision detection, and slower scrolling only on Atari ST only. Commodore 64 is fun to play and represents playing a little mini version of arcade classic Atari Lynx is great and impressive. Famicom is by far the ugliest port of all time.

+TheBuzatti That was an entirely different game actually (in Japan that game was called "Hello! Pac-Man!" +RetroCore Namco Museum was a conversion of sorts. Much like with a number of the classic compilations released in the 90s, many of the games were at best pseudo-emulation. I mean take a look at Pac-Man and Ms. Pac-Man on many Namco collections until Museum 50th Anniversary. Took a long time to get the audio right.. and even mobile still botches Ms. Pac-Man slightly..

Playstation game seems to be running at a different resolution than the arcade but looks arcade perfect

Something weird I have noticed is that the Amiga and Atari ST versions retain the dithered gloves from the PC-8001 version. Are these version based off the PC-8001 version minus the parallax?

Amiga, ST, Spectrum, Amstrad, Famicom, MSX, what the hell man? How can any development team bugger up Pac Land? Every one of those systems should have had a good port, even the Atari 2600 and Apple II could have done Pac Land!

what emulator are you using for Lynx ?

I played this a lot on my C64!! A funny story: There is a point on the game where I couldn't pass a lake, and I was stuck. However, as I could enter some pokes for most games (pokes are like the codes for cheat cartridges) I entered some random ones just for fun and it resulted that some of them changed the game's behaviour!!! where in the original game you start from the last checkpoint when you died, with my code you start in the next one and I could pass that lake section!!!

Pac Land, pretty decent game. But wow, what the hell is up with the Famicom port? I was expecting it to look somewhat faithful to the arcade original, like the PC Engine port, but no. It looks like a bootleg (to me, at least).

The NES version is the worst one by far. The PC Engine version is amazing, the Lynx version looks like a really fitting game for a handheld tbh.

You forgot to mention this one fact: Pac-Land is one of the first few games to feature parallax scrolling, which was taken out of most versions. In fact, only 2 of all the versions here retain that nifty feature: the Sharp X68000 and Atari Lynx versions.

x68k is really the neogeo of the computers :)

There is also an NEC-PC 8801 version as well.

C64 has another good version...or though i dont think its the best '8-bit port as you stated, i think that has to go to the PC-Engine version surely?'

What look likes the least ms paint is the zx spectrum port but the actual win is almost all of them except for Atari st and famicom port

I like the Arcade (Japanese) best, then Playstation one, Lynx, but I wish they made this game for the Mega-Drive? I think it would’ve been perfect on it

call me crazy (or too nerd) but that sound after you dies 02:17 it remind me mappy...

I discovered these videos a few days ago, I love this kind of content. I don't know if it's just on these old ones, but I think you should enable vsync to get rid of the tearing. I thought some of the versions had it on the original hardware, but then I saw the ones I played and I realized that it was because the lack of vsync.

There was another good iOS port on the iPhone on the Namco Arcade, but like many other developers, it became unplayable

Did you use Mario paint for the music on the end? I keep hearing Yoshi.

C64? Not bad, but PC Engine / TG16 version is DEFINITELY the best 8bit conversion. Also, not sure which order I'd put C64 and Lynx versions in...

You forgot the NEC PC-8801mkIISR port!

Is there any comparison of the Theme Park ports and SimCity?

MS Paint: the Game feat. creature that resembles Pac-Man.

Wow, the Famicom version is awful... it looks more like a Sega SG-1000 or Atari 2600 game!

I've noticed that Pac-Land has a kind of Wonder Boy feel to it. A bit odd that the Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum and MSX version doesn't scroll and instead goes from screen to screen.

I never believe that a game could be more pathetic than a Spectrum or MSX version... but here ladies and Gentleman... comes the absolute ridiculous version of Famicom/NES...

Mein childhood...

For some reason the video stutter when I watch it on 30 FPS

I like the cpc version.

I was about 10 when this game came out on the c64 and it blew my mind. Now when I look back god damn what a shitty looking game🤣

Who doesn't see the inspiration?

Lol he died so much in the Amiga port.

use to play the lynx version alot as a kid. was one of my favourites to go to on the go. although i drained many a batteries playing lol

Damn! Famicom version looks ugly!! xDDD

Well there is also NEC PC 8001 version

Me: (Seeing the Famicom version) SUPER MARIO BROS LOOKS BETTER THAN THIS S**T!!!!

There should be a 3d remake of this game

blinky disliked

who the hell made pac land for the famicom?

Did you know: You can switch the PCE/TG16 controls to use either button or D-pad/stick running with the select button. Playing Pac-Land with different control options make it even more better good great!

Atari Lynx win ;-)

Doesn't look like much of a game to start with... I presume name recognition meant so much back in the day - probably still does - COD anyone? Just surprised it got so many ports for what looks like a bog-standard platformer...

Request:Popeye

Pac-man on the 8-bit ports looks laughable, especially on the NES version. The stubby legs and sometimes, arms, just looks plain silly.