He is a genius, still. Now a professor of physics at UCSD and playing pacman with subatomic particles, no doubt.

The fact he had to write these in ASM is a blessing for an enthusiast like myself.

Alliteration: *the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.*

Linguistic skills then.

That's awesome, I'm glad to hear it. Thanks a bunch for the feedback and I hope you continue to enjoy!

Lgr, Have you ever considered a review of the old pc game The Bard's Tale or it's remake of the same name?

This is Joey, Paul, Willie and Frankie.

Very!

Is it Red Baron pizza?

Light years better! Amen.

Everything is better than Atari 2600 version of Pac-man

Everything is better than the 2600 in general. Or at least the early 80s era of the 2600.

Well, that's not the whole truth. The blame was simply the extraordinary short timeframes Atari gave programmers to shell out games. Programmer Tod Frye was given just six months to singlehandedly reverse engineer a mega-popular arcade game on the 2600, a system that was only intended to have three moving sprites and almost no system RAM to speak of. To make matters even more demanding, Atari corporate management demanded Frye use only a 4K ROM, despite his repeated requests the game use 8K which was already available at the time. Atari cheaped out both in terms of development costs (the quicker a game is made, the less you have to pay a programmer) and also their selfish limiting the game to 4K to reduce costs even further. And remember, the developer's toolkit for making 2600 games is incredibly primitive to what homebrew producers of 2600 games today have. Given the severe limitations Frye had to contend with (time, ROM space and primitive development tools) it's pretty amazing the 2600 Pac-Man turned as good as it did. Sure it isn't nearly as good as the arcade, but it's playable, recognizable, and for better or worse, is one of the most iconic 2600 games there is.

That actually is true. This is one of the two games that well, kinda killed Atari's reputation. The other one being 1982's ET (which the carts were found in the Desert for real)

I've been mulling over that idea for a while now, and certainly want to do so sometime. It's just a huge undertaking, since my collection is so large and spread out, and I don't want to just skim over things.

We got a much cheaper version for DOS in '93.

You must be talking about Espacio, which overwrote your filles with this and would sometimes change the beginning text to "FUCK!" for a brief moment.

Ian Oliver danooct1 reviewed the espacio dos virus. Aaand you beat me to the punch.

Ian Oliver The espacio virus uses this exact program in its payload

DrChillbrain Sort of...

Ian Oliver Espacio much?

You have to remember that the people who would've bought this in 1983 were business workers looking for some in-office leisure; compared to the cost of Lotus 1-2-3, this was cheap.

Awesome :)

It was converted from a PC Booter game to DOS-compatible later on, and from what I gather it was just by fans or companies like Keypunch.

Lazy Game Reviews thepirategamerboy12 You're both all right. The Espacio Virus actually displays the full word "PAC" instead of "PC" at the title screen, and also made other changes to the proverbial "READY!" that would flash on screen before the action. I have 2 DOS versions of this game, very minute differences between them. One is about 2 kilobytes larger than the other. The only differences I can find are one does NOT display "Today's High Score", nor does it save the high scores to disk. It also has a different sound effect when you get a bonus item (candy cane, watermelon, etc), makes a "beep-beep-beep-beep-beep", instead of a "chirrup" sound. Also the first one I can exit by pressing ESC, second one I can't; only way out is a three-finger-salute (or throw the big red switch). Looking inside the files with an ASCII test viewer, there's no difference in the text between the 2 versions, except for the missing stuff in the first. Copyright date and everything else is the same. If I had to guess, the first one was "hacked" to allow exiting back to DOS by using the ESC key, and for sake of simplicity the high score saving routine was removed, to prevent the game from complaining. Second version that has all that stuff also includes text such as "Your PC-MAN disk is not in the drive". Oddly enough, it does allow saving of high scores, and doesn't care it's on a hard drive.

I know this comment is 3 years old but F U C K !

Might be thinking of CD-Man! LGR - CD-Man - DOS PC Game Review

Lazy Game Reviews Or a _really_ bad clone called "MunchMan": LGR - Keypunch Games on an IBM 5150 Part 2 - Gambler, Arcade II

vwestlife Plus I may be mistaken, but I THINK he did a video where he makes quick mention of a bunch of Pac Man clones. I seem to recall a quick screen shot of this game in that video of this game. Then again, it COULD have been another ytuber, or...even an elaborate dream sequence in my own head (lol :) ) but no, I'm fairly certain he talked about it...vaguely.

As far as I know, you can't be sued for selling an overpriced game (And in this case, given that it's a good game, maybe it wasn't overpriced at the time). Only if they can prove you lied or falsely advertised to the customer, as with Aliens: Colonial Marines.

fountainhead You can be sued for copyright infringement, and this game would undoubtedly be shut down by Namco for just that if it was being released in 2014.

Probably more concerned with bootlegs of the arcade version, which were all over the place, than this thing that nobody had heard of

Brandon (Dragon's Egg) True, but it sounded like the OP was complaining about the price of the game. Maybe I misinterpreted.

fountainhead I believe the price was mentioned as Namco would have been really pissed about someone getting a lot of money off of something based upon their property.

It's _Elder Scrolls: Daggerfall_ The LGR review video is here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gt-Io8V8mse0daM.html

Murphy's Laws for $20!