Jr. Pac-Man/Versions
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[edit] Atari 2600
Developed by GCC in 1984, but not by Atari released until 1987. When the Tramiels took over Atari, they stopped several home console projects to concentrate on the home computer market. When the NES revived the home console market in the U.S., Atari rededicated themselves to the Atari 2600 market and published this version of the game. Although the maze scrolls vertically instead of horizontally (presumably due to the fact that vertical scrolling was easier to accomplish on the hardware), this version is celebrated as the best official Pac-Man port to the Atari 2600 by many players.
[edit] Atari 5200 & 400/800/XL/XE
Like Super Pac-Man, developed by Atari in 1984 but never released. A pirated prototype of the ROM has been around almost since the games cancellation. The leaked ROM was intended for the Atari 5200, but was hacked in order to make it playable on the Atari series of home computers as well.
[edit] Commodore 64
Developed by Beam Software and released by Thunder Mountain in 1988. Interestingly, this version of Jr. Pac-Man does no scroll, a surprising fact given how capable the C64 is of scrolling. Then again, considering the graphics of the C64, if scrolling was implemented, it might have been used considerably less than in the arcade (due to the wider screen resolution) so the decision to remove the scrolling may have been deliberate, as opposed to a limitation.
[edit] IBM PC MS-DOS
Developed by Beam Software and released by Thunder Mountain in 1989. There is a separate CGA and EGA version (CGA version shown here). Aside from the colors, it is essentially identical to the Commodore 64 version.
