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| | |title=Professor Pac-Man | ||
|image=Professor Pac-Man cabinet.jpg | |image=Professor Pac-Man cabinet.jpg | ||
|japanese=プロフェッサーパックマン | |japanese=プロフェッサーパックマン | ||
|developer=[[Bally Midway]] | |developer=[[Bally Midway]] | ||
|publisher=[[Bally Midway]] | |publisher=[[Bally Midway]] | ||
|genre=[[Quiz]] | |genre=[[Quiz]] | ||
|systems=[[Arcade]] | |||
|released={{rd|1983}} | |||
|players=1-2 | |players=1-2 | ||
|modes=[[Single player]], [[Multiplayer]] | |modes=[[Single player]], [[Multiplayer]] | ||
|preceded by=[[Jr. Pac-Man]] (US)<br | |preceded by=[[Jr. Pac-Man]] (US)<br>[[Pac & Pal]] (JP) | ||
|followed by=[[Pac-Land]] (JP) | |followed by=[[Pac-Land]] (JP) | ||
|series=Pac-Man | |series=Pac-Man | ||
}} | }} | ||
{{marquee|Professor Pac-Man marquee.jpg}} | {{marquee|Professor Pac-Man marquee.jpg}} | ||
'''Professor Pac-Man''' is a [[quiz]] arcade game that was released by [[Bally Midway]] in [[1983]]; it was the last game to run on their "Astrocade" hardware, and like [[Ms. Pac-Man]], [[Pac-Man Plus]], [[Baby Pac-Man]] and [[Jr. Pac-Man]] before it, it was developed without any authorization from [[Namco]], the original creators of the [[:Category:Pac-Man|Pac-Man series]]. This installment did not fare very well in the arcades, mainly due to its slow pace and its abandonment of the famous maze-based gameplay that had made many of the previous titles in the series (both Japanese and American, with the exception of the aforementioned Baby Pac-Man, as it was a video-pinball hybrid) so popular - and it was written in the [[wp:Forth (programming language)|FORTH]] programming language. | '''Professor Pac-Man''' is a [[quiz]] arcade game that was released by [[Bally Midway]] in [[1983]]; it was the last game to run on their "Astrocade" hardware, and like [[Ms. Pac-Man]], [[Pac-Man Plus]], [[Baby Pac-Man]] and [[Jr. Pac-Man]] before it, it was developed without any authorization from [[Namco]], the original creators of the [[:Category:Pac-Man|Pac-Man series]]. This installment did not fare very well in the arcades, mainly due to its slow pace and its abandonment of the famous maze-based gameplay that had made many of the previous titles in the series (both Japanese and American, with the exception of the aforementioned Baby Pac-Man, as it was a video-pinball hybrid) so popular - and it was written in the [[wp:Forth (programming language)|FORTH]] programming language. | ||
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Bally Midway had originally planned to release three different versions of their quiz game: '''Family''' (for younger players), '''Public''' (for bars), and '''Prizes''' (for casinos); there were also to be software revisions at quarterly intervals in order to prevent people from memorizing the answers. Unfortunately for them, however, the game was almost an immediate flop, and most operators only had it hanging around for as long as it took to get it shipped back to the distributor - and only 400 cabinets (all of which were of the "Public" variety) were ever produced. Approximately 300 cabinets ended up getting shipped back to the manufacturer and converted to [[Pac-Land]] cabinets in [[1984]], which is why it was not uncommon to see a Pac-Land cabinet with Professor Pac-Man side art in the mid-1980s; it is thought that only a very small number of Professor Pac-Man cabinets still survive today presumably in the double digits. | Bally Midway had originally planned to release three different versions of their quiz game: '''Family''' (for younger players), '''Public''' (for bars), and '''Prizes''' (for casinos); there were also to be software revisions at quarterly intervals in order to prevent people from memorizing the answers. Unfortunately for them, however, the game was almost an immediate flop, and most operators only had it hanging around for as long as it took to get it shipped back to the distributor - and only 400 cabinets (all of which were of the "Public" variety) were ever produced. Approximately 300 cabinets ended up getting shipped back to the manufacturer and converted to [[Pac-Land]] cabinets in [[1984]], which is why it was not uncommon to see a Pac-Land cabinet with Professor Pac-Man side art in the mid-1980s; it is thought that only a very small number of Professor Pac-Man cabinets still survive today presumably in the double digits. | ||
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{{Pac-Man}} | {{Pac-Man}} | ||
[[Category:Midway Games]] | [[Category:Midway Games]] | ||
[[Category:Arcade]] | |||
[[Category:Quiz]] | [[Category:Quiz]] | ||
[[Category:Single player]] | [[Category:Single player]] | ||
[[Category:Multiplayer]] | [[Category:Multiplayer]] | ||
[[Category:MAME]] | [[Category:MAME]] | ||