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Every month, retro Gamer asks a question on the forum and prints the best replies. This month we wanted to know… Your favourite Pac-man game/memories Dan tootill
Pac-man on the atari 2600. had a proper gaming night at my grandparent’s house, probably sometime in 1984. We loved it, they loved it… even my mum loved it.
Carlos Dean
Blackpool pleasure Beach, the original arcade version. amaze balls.
John reynolds
My first Pac-man memory was seeing it on a neighbour’s atari 2600 when i was about six or seven. it was the first time i’d seen a home console and i just remember being amazed at the fact that something on the television was being controlled by this boy with a joystick – i didn’t have a go myself. a couple of years later i got Gnasher for the Zx spectrum, which i thought looked more authentic than the ‘official’ atari game.
steven Leicester
Pac-man has always been an amazingly playable game from day one, but the Championship Edition on the xbox 360 really breathed new life into an already timeless classic.
Faber Fox
First time i saw it was on the arcades. My most-loved conversion was Cia’s Pac-man for the C64, in which you had to turn your monitor sideways, but was amazingly accurate. now i’m in love with Pac-man 256, and also like Championship DX quite a lot.
David Birdsall
Pac-man is actually my first gaming memory. i’m not sure of the year, but it must have been 1981 or 1982. i was six or seven, my dad took me into a pub and there was a tabletop Pac-man.i was transfixed, i sat watching the machine play itself for ages. i am pretty sure that before seeing it i had know idea such a thing existed. Been hooked ever since.
Dale muir
Pac-man on the 2600 was one of the first two games i ever played when i was six in 1991. i know it’s generally considered to be a horrible port, but i have fond memories of it. i also have a pac-man plushie that i received around the same time!
mark r Jones
Pac-man was one of the first games that i saw in an arcade. i had a few goes at it, but i was rubbish. Me and my sisters did go mad on the Pac-man stickers and scratch cards and bought loads of them from the newsagents five doors up from our house.