Pac the Man still packs lots of arcade action fun
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Jun 22, 2006 at 4:02am
When I was a young man a century or two ago, I loved playing Pac Man and Ms. Pac Man. They were my kind of games: fast and furious, not requiring hours of time (such as the strategy games my son Matt loves). Turns out they’re still my cup of tea.
Pac the Man from McSebi is a Mac OS X version/homage to the arcade classic. It offers all the fun of the original—and then some. In the game you can play as either Pac Man or Ms. Pac Man. As you might expect, whichever character you are, you “run” around a maze, eating pellets and fruit while avoiding ghosts who are chasing you. Eat a power-up pellet, and you can, for a brief time, eat the ghosts themselves. Chomp down on fruit and you can double your score.
Pac the Man X has 25 levels and a new difficulty level: Master. Available for single player only, Master level plunges the levels into total darkness. What’s more, it has a level editor, so you can create new levels as you wish. The game has one or two player modes; four difficulty levels, 15 stereo sound effects; five music themes; and a new OpenGL engine with updated graphics and animations. It looks, sounds and plays great. What’s more, Pac the Man X is a Universal Binary app, so runs natively on both PowerPC and Intel Macs. The capper: it’s free. What’s not to like?
System requirementes: Mac OS X 10.3.9 or higher; a PowerPC or Intel Mac running at 500MHz or faster (800MHz is recommended); and 128RM of free RAM.
Macsimum rating: 10 out of 10
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Dennis Sellers
Dennis has been a newspaper editor/reporter (seven years) and teacher (seven years). He has over 4,000 magazine, newspaper and online articles to his credit. He has also covered the Mac and tech industries for over a decade for such online publications as MacCentral, MacMinute and now MacsimumNews.
