I loved playing this! I never really understood why Pac-Land doesn't get the love or recognition it deserves, though, especially since it predates Super Mario Bros. by like a year! A forgotten classic gem arcade game! I've been so happy to see it's finally gotten some love in the Super Smash Bros. series!

@Mr_Spaghetti

5 жыл бұрын

The Real Sean W. Stewart this is so fascinating, your comment sent me on a deep dive. tbh i first started looking things up because i assumed you were wrong, i figured Mario had to be first. but you were right! the Mario Bros. arcade game predates this one, but that wasn’t a side scrolling game. And this game had parallax scrolling! in 1984!

@Mr_Spaghetti

5 жыл бұрын

so my guesses for its lack of popularity are the video game crash of ‘83 probably hurt it, it was probably poorly marketed due to its connection to the Hanna Barbera cartoons (the suits always seem to screw up video game multimedia stuff, am i right?), and the biggest reason... it was never ported to the NES!

@Mr_Spaghetti

5 жыл бұрын

I know what you’re thinking: 1, this dude has too much time on his hands. and 2, of course it was on the NES, wikipedia says so and there’s cartridges on ebay! But the internet has an understandable tendency of conflating all things Famicom with all things NES (Famicom even redirects to NES on wikipedia, and even the Nintendo online stores sometimes mix the two up), and cartridges are easy to fake. I can find no evidence outside of second hand markets that Pac-Land was ever truly on the NES

@Bloodreign1

5 жыл бұрын

Mr. Spaghetti, rest assured, Pac-Land never made it outside of Japan on the Famicom, so there is no NES version of this one. Like Mappy, it stayed in Japan.

@scottandrewhutchins

5 жыл бұрын

Because the controls were so damn difficult!

Played this every day of my holiday in Devon when I was 12 years old and I've loved it ever since.

@JimmyTheMower

2 жыл бұрын

I've just purchased an arcade machine with it on 👍

For an arcade in 84, these are some smooth animations...

@Doodle1678

Жыл бұрын

I never noticed how smooth pacmans running animation is…

Shame on nintendo for not adding those hats as alts, such a missed opportunity

@zen_arcade

4 жыл бұрын

Nintendo doesn't develop smash

@bonnjust4001

3 жыл бұрын

@@zen_arcade but they do have direct control on it, it's developed by a second party developer, sakurai even said that they choose the dlc characters.

@anthonyoliver418

3 жыл бұрын

Sort of like all of bowser in smash, he just feels like an gritty reboot of bowser that is hype realistic, and fights closer to what Ridley would fight like like in his body than how Bowser does, don’t even get me started on lost episode creepy pasta hyper realistic bowser a.k.a. Giga Bowser!

@CosmicSponge2004

2 жыл бұрын

Eh. Sakurai isn't too bright on these things. Just look at Sonic's moveset, then play Sonic Battle

@beauwalker9820

2 жыл бұрын

Namco helped make the new Smash games, so they are to blame too. Odd, they didn't include the Pac-Land music to the Pac Land stage.

My local arcade had this one... it's quite rare finding it in the wild! I loved how it played the theme from the Pac-Man cartoon.

@theodorehsu5023

Жыл бұрын

They also used the US designs for Pac Man, Ms. Pac Man (hair and bow vs. bow alone) and Baby Pac Man (boy in US, girl in JP/world version).

So that's where Pac-Man's fire hydrant in 'Super Smash Bros.' came from.

@kels_tho

4 жыл бұрын

You’re right 🍎

@DietSugar0

4 жыл бұрын

🍒🍓🍊🍎🍈🚀🛎🔑

@brohugproduction3212

4 жыл бұрын

And his Jump

@LordTchernobog

3 жыл бұрын

The the whole stage dedicated to Pacman at all

@rain5545

3 жыл бұрын

So the pacman in smash is the pacman in pac-land!?

THIS. IS A WRENCH.

Pac-Man: I'm just off out to stir up trouble with the neighbours and meet a beautiful woman who showers me with free gifts. I'll be back for my dinner!

@JordanViknar

4 жыл бұрын

Well, the neighbours are kind of trying to kill him so he has kind of a right for self-defense.

@spongebobsquarepants6973

4 жыл бұрын

@@JordanViknar true

@YoBoiDavidBanks

3 жыл бұрын

There is a reason for it

@YoBoiDavidBanks

3 жыл бұрын

Then Ms. Pac-Man finds out Pac-Man has been cheating on her with the mother of all fairies

@kieranstark7213

3 жыл бұрын

@@YoBoiDavidBanks Or maybe because of characters like them, Pac-Man is a ladies’ man who pissed off his self-proclaimed girlfriend Pinky (formerly boyfriend had it been the 80s) by summoning the ghosts to go after him until according to them “he finally learns to respect women”! But I think we all know PM was in the right!

Oh my goodness, I absolutely loved this game in my teens!!

I'd never even heard of this game before. It's like finding a missing evolutionary link. I'd always wondered as a kid how Pac-Man went from being a one-screen maze-chaser to the full-blown graphic adventure it was in Pac-Man 2. Now it's clear as day.

I want to be a good friend of PAC-MAN in the PAC-LAND.

@bluescat581

3 жыл бұрын

:[

@orangepentagon9730

3 жыл бұрын

If you play this game you are a good friend of PAC-MAN in the PAC-LAND!

Fun fact: Shigeru Miyamoto was inspired by this game to create Super Mario Bros. True story.

wow i've spent countless quarters playing this game... and ironically, this is also the game that brought me to Nintendo... one day my dad told me that his friend has this game that i play at arcades, so i went to check it out, and turned out it's Super Mario Bros, which is strikingly similar... we end up buying the NES ourselves and rest is history

Gotta love the demo that's programmed to just hold right and randomly jump and just instantly dies

thanks for sharing Old Classic Retro Gaming

So much time (and 10p's) spent playing this in the arcades as a kid.

Nice Walkthrough on this 1984 arcade video game, and the Fairy Queen is my favorite character on Pac-Land.

Thanks for your description, it was very interesting.

I remember playing the NES version as a child. Never beat it. Nice to see what the arcade version looks like.

This brings back that instant childhood innocence of believing that some how everything would be alright

There was an arcade perfect port of this on the "PC Engine." Classic game - but this guy is not a professional player. There are loads of bonuses that he's missing - like jumping at the end of the stage for bonus, resetting the time by eating 6 ghosts in a row, etc. Anyway, thanks for the memories :)

@giorgiopradella

4 жыл бұрын

And I remember there was a flower to grow in every stage..

@darehkooumchian8394

3 жыл бұрын

there were soooo many hidden manouvres in this game.... jumping off the screen, moving stuff, jumping at the end of each screen at the right time!

@jasonlee7816

3 жыл бұрын

+router coach Pac-Land wasn’t arcade perfect on the PC Engine/TurboGrafx it graphically looks and/or the audio, music, sound is out of place in some areas

@davidthecommenter

2 жыл бұрын

how the hell would a casual know those exist??

Love your logo by the way by the up upright

I had to have spent well over $1000 in quarters playing this game.. It's by far the best game in the Pacman series..

@pacman6744

3 ай бұрын

Thanks for the money lmao

@EarthAngel504

3 ай бұрын

@@pacman6744 well it was worth it. have me a life time of good memories.

If I went back in time I'd tell Namco to make a console. They were the gods of making amazing, ground breaking games but they don't get the recognition they deserve and I think it's because of no console manufactured by them.

@lukemiyuu3707

Жыл бұрын

If I remember correctly, they were developing one but eventually canned it.

This was such a revolutionary sidescrolling game for it's time...took Nintendo almost 10 yrs to surpass technically.

@unfortunatebeam

5 жыл бұрын

10 years?? Try maybe 1 or 2. But yeah it definitely was the actual innovator everyone thought Super Mario Bros was.

@duffman18

4 жыл бұрын

10 years? What are you smoking? Mario 3 is still the best 2D platformer ever and that was only what, 4 years later?

@skylerboyce2597

Жыл бұрын

@@duffman18 I'm not really a mario fan so yeah this better than any mario game for me.

This is a stage in smash bros

@julienjohnson9670

5 жыл бұрын

This is a *shitty* stage in smash bros. -ftfy

@daseal1479

4 жыл бұрын

@@julienjohnson9670 Yeah... While i like the effort made to represent an important part of Pac-Man's history, i would have much preferred the Pac-Village from the Pac-Man World series instead. I actually grew up with those games. Or at the very least they should have dropped it for an HD version of Pac-Maze from Smash 3DS for Ultimate. MUCH more iconic and recognizable. And prettier to look at.

@doodled6629

4 жыл бұрын

No!

@11022013mm

4 жыл бұрын

@@daseal1479 and I grew up with pacman fever

@deco7217

3 жыл бұрын

@@julienjohnson9670 I actually like the stage.

Trying for long time to remember the name of this video game, i thought the name was Lakeland, i loved to played it for.long hours after school.

One of my favourite old arcades, was up the local centre. You're quite a bit better at it then me though 😅

I really like the ghost designs in this game

@chrisketchum8042

Жыл бұрын

Well they were based off of the cartoon

As a kid I have played this game at an arcade in Rimini, Italy. I was not able to get too far, mind you.

That music... soundtrack to my youth

I had no. idea. this game existed. And now pacman2 for the snes that came out TEN years later feels lay less weird.

I barely remember seeing this at a mall arcade

I never knew this game existed, it looks very advanced, the graphics as the sound are better than any GameBoy Colour game in the year 1999, Pac Land is from the year 1984!!! Super Mario Bros looks older than this, Megaman looks older too but the 2 appeared later...wow

I love how the demos end when Pacman dies XD

A real favorite of mine

0:29 Top 10 Haunting Photos Taken Seconds Before Disaster*

Don't forget to jump at the end of each level for a special bonus up to 7650 points.

never knew bout this till smash ultimate

@japhreal

3 жыл бұрын

And you never knew this came and was a inspiration of super Mario bros

there was one at big lots in the early 2000s

DOH, I MUST HAVE THOSE POWER PELLETS, GO FIND ME THE POWER PELLET FOREST!

Pac land usa looks like Hanna Barbera's Pac Man cartoon

The only Pac-Man game based on the animated series.

The doors and keys at 13:30 could make a fun level where you choose routes based on doors like this

This game is fantastic. Just found it in 2022.

(0:01) I got scared after I plugged the arcade machine.

5:27 - It's Pepper Pac-Man and Pac-Baby from Hanna-Barbera's Pac-Man: The Animated Series.

next time someone complains about this stage in smash just remind them that it doesnt have the ghosts

Sill playing this, still havnt beaten it 😂❤

This game was groundbreaking, it pre-dated Super Mario Bros by a year.

Arcade Archives: Pac-Land will soon be available tomorrow on Nintendo Switch Lite.

i had no idea this game existed (and i wasn’t that much of a pac-man fan) until i unlocked the pac-land stage in super smash bros. for wii U by playing each of the smash tour boards

@LUCKO2022

4 жыл бұрын

The game is based in the Cartoon Series released in 1982.

I can't believe I've never heard of this game, it would have been like Donkey Kong Country back then.

@stevenmillward4105

4 жыл бұрын

I played it in the arcades at the time. It was definitely a step above a lot of the dross but then a lot changed in a short time in the early 80s. Atari in particular jumped a long way ahead in graphics and sound with games like Marble Madness and Paperboy in the same year as Pacland, mostly down to 16 bit chipsets. The parallax scrolling amazed me at the time.

How do you glide or slow down your fall speed at the first plank? I’m effectively stuck & unable to get past level 3 because I lose all my lives at that exact point.

Really cool looking game, I wonder why it was never ported to the NES. It seems to really give Super Mario Bros a run for its money.

@tinchovm85

2 жыл бұрын

I had this game for the NES (Famicom really) when I was a child. It was a fun-to-play port but graphics was very downgraded.

Pac-Man Is At It Again In Pac-Land From Namco!

Ahhh this the origin of pac land in super smash

Ah I remember the days where pacman wore a fucking fedora

in the beginning, the air got released.

The original super mario

yo lo juge y no me acordaba de ese juego aorita que lobi medio tristeza y me recordó los momentos cuando lo juge y me puso a mi con nostaljia😭😭😭😢😢😢

I COMPLETELY FORGOT ABOUT THIS GAME!!!

@NickMario1

2 жыл бұрын

SAME

P-p-p-p-p-pac power!

A pub my dad used to take me and my brother too every now and again had this on an arcade machine in a little games room, I always felt like I was cheating when it let you choose the stage to start on, was this the first side scrolling platformer?

Why the "flying Yoshi" sound effect from "Super Mario World"?

I thought I was a god getting to level 8 using the weird joystick set up

They don’t go the jump at the end of each level that scores you points... one jump at the right time nets you 7,000 score timed right at the end of every level.

Eddie Donnelly could clock this in Mario lupos rathmines

Um explain to me why the bombs the airplane ghosts were dropping were not killing him?

Looks like somebody see this as seen in Super Smash Bros. (Ultimate)!

why the hell he never jumps at the end of levels?

@giorgiopradella

4 жыл бұрын

Damn! And if you did it right there were 7650 points!

@christallane8542

3 жыл бұрын

@ Try to record an hour of PAC-Land and let’s see how good you are at it

This reminds me of the chrom dinosaur game

4:29 so thattsss where the victory screen in ssbu came from

De niño creo haber llegado como máximo al Round 21, son 20 minutos de juego, y pensaba que había llegado lejos XD

@BlueFalconPunch07

5 жыл бұрын

Es difícil ese juego. Llegaste más de lo que yo pude xd

6:47 How do you make this jump? Edit: So it seems you have to mash right and then mash both right and jump or you won't reach all the way

Is this available on a console with these graphics and features?

I can’t get passed the ramp on round 3. How the hell do you do it

yes a good game for its time based on the american cartoon. not sure but i think pc engine game was nearest to the arcade.

December 25, 1984-fresh out of the confining mazes comes Pac-Land. The first of its kind that had no joystick. What’s up with that?!

@Cristianjackson559

9 ай бұрын

It’s Supposed To Be Like Konami's Track And Field Because It Had Just The Buttons Not The Joystick That Was The Reason Why Pac-Land Had No Joystick

Wwooooooooooooooooooooowww

No final boss battle with Mesmeron?

@chrisketchum8042

4 жыл бұрын

Cartoon villain only I think.

@TheWASHINGMACHINEBOY

4 жыл бұрын

Scott Andrew Hutchins there is one port of pac-land that has a finite number of rounds and after the last one is an ending cutscene

@scottandrewhutchins

2 жыл бұрын

@@chrisketchum8042 The music is from the cartoon, as is the character design.

I want this turned into a plug and play

@JimmyTheMower

2 жыл бұрын

It has been by 1up arcade

@bigjawed

2 жыл бұрын

@@JimmyTheMower 1 year ago.

0:00- 0:01 All that code Is at the beginning of every arcade game.

@user38373_

4 жыл бұрын

Hall up, at 0:01 on the right, there is a Pac-Man facing upwards, a Pac- Man that's just a ball, a bowl, and a green Pac-Man that looks like it has rona. Does this mean anything?

@spongebobsquarepants6973

4 жыл бұрын

@@user38373_ Probably just the code of the game booting up I think.

@user38373_

4 жыл бұрын

@@spongebobsquarepants6973 NO, NO, NO!!!!!! F you! The creator is trying to create some sort of secret code, idiot!

@spongebobsquarepants6973

4 жыл бұрын

@@user38373_ Calm down! I'm telling the truth! There's no code in the games files! 🙄

@user38373_

4 жыл бұрын

@@spongebobsquarepants6973 You're the dumbest person of all time. Get an education. 😠

Why doesn't the player jump at the end of the level - this gave bonus points.

@xofluapmailrocketleague

2 жыл бұрын

He did at 1:29:29...

Your missing you 7650 points at the break time

Una curiosidad esque los coches y los buses de dos pisos solo aparecen en la ciudad siempre al principio de cada ronda solo en 2 ocasiones nomas aparecen en otro lado

This game is the most revolutionary game of all time. Until Mario came

Does it bother anyone else that the person playing this doesn't jump at the break time bit?

I like the other version better because he wears a fedora hat!

Wow pacman has a family 12:31

Im frustrated because he didn't jump at the break time stop to obtain the flower or the 7650 points

I've never seen this game in arcades. I wonder why it's so rare. Did it simply not meet expectations? Was the hardware prone to malfunctioning? The game doesn't look bad. Seems better than all the "REAL THRILLS" monstrosities that occupy American arcades today

@lakitudude7577

4 жыл бұрын

It came out around the video game crash, so vendors were very hesitant to purchase new machines

@rcslyman8929

2 жыл бұрын

Took a while, but I had several arcades around me that carried this game, though they weren't the closest ones. Only ever found Pac Jr. and Pac-Mania in one place, each.

The game begins in 2:07

You missed the 7650!

Класс игра

Where can i download the game ?

There’s a version where pac man has just black eyes

Namco At Least Got So Much Credit To Hanna-Barbera And The American Broadcasting Company.

Setsuna Yuki and Kasumi Nakasu both ever cleared Pac Land. Setsuna scoring 2450970 pts.

01:31:24 CHOMP!!! Complements of Sue.