11/30/2023 0 Comments Pac man fever game![]() People might want to get their mind off their economic troubles and take a break by playing a game. Namco’s games for cell phones typically range from $3 a month for a subscription and up to $15 for unlimited play on a smartphone.Īs far as Namco executives can tell, people are buying mobile games despite what’s happening in the broad economy. But when Ford asked whether he would admit to a market researcher that he was playing games, the answer was “no.” Ford said he sat on a plane next to an executive who played a game for the duration of the 3+-hour flight, and it turned out that his fellow passenger was the CEO of a pharmaceutical company. While BlackBerrys historically were for the enterprise, that doesn’t mean enterprise users aren’t playing games. (Those who have the first version of the iPhone, which initially wasn’t designed for gaming, can download 2.0 software for free and get access to the Apple application store, where they can get the games.) Namco games work on a broad range of devices, from Java to BREW and the Apple iPhone. Namco has supplied games to work on the BlackBerry platform for more than a year, but Handmark’s “Fever” category devoted to its games is new, according to Jason Ford, vice president of strategy and planning at Namco Networks. Pac-Man, Galaga, Dig Dug and Super Pac-Man are available for download through the “Pac-Man Fever” games category within Handmark online and on-device stores. The same could likely be said for many LEGO Icons sets.Namco Networks and Handmark are making a collection of Namco games available on Research In Motion (RIM) BlackBerry devices under the “Pac-Man Fever” category. Many purchasers are merely huge fans of the subject matter ( Scooby-Doo, Tintin, Doctor Who, etc.), and the fact that it is a brick-built model is almost completely incidental. Talking with Paul again later about the power of nostalgia, he has found that it plays a large part in which photography prints people decide to buy of his various MOCs. ![]() ![]() ![]() (Hey! Just like a real video game!) When the adults operated it, you could see the nostalgia set in… It’s too bad I wasn’t working on commission, as a lot of future set sales were made over those two days. What I can tell you though is that the set put very large smiles on people’s faces.ĭuring the quiet times of the expo, I let kids operate the features of the set and they all were entranced by the screen. Unfortunately, I didn’t take any pictures of people’s reactions as they were trying out the features turning the cranks, asking if the other white button does anything, and watching Pac-Man being chased round and round the maze. To say there were quite a few requests for a set demo would be an understatement. “ Sacrilege! ” I could at least justify it for the purposes of this article, as well as for it being something that the attendees would not have seen in public yet (especially so soon after the embargo date). This time it was by displaying an official LEGO set at a convention. ![]() I thought that the public attendees might also like to see the LEGO set and MOC placed side-by-side… so for a second time that week, I went against my personal building principles. In the LEGO set, their Pac-Man and ghosts placed on top of the game have much more rounded shapes, and they put importance on mimicking the gameplay action of the maze-chase across the entire screen. These all necessitated building the MOC at a larger scale. For Paul, the key game details that he wanted to incorporate were the “chomping” motion of Pac-Man, the side-to-side wandering of the ghosts, their pixilated look, and brick building the Pac-Man logo across the top. When comparing Paul’s MOC side-by-side with the set, you can see the massive difference in scale. ![]()
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