September 10th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in New Releases | 1 Comment »
Namco has released a new mobile game that is branded with all-time video game hero Pac-Man. This time the raging pie chart can be found on the golf court.
“By combining some of Namco’s most popular arcade classics with a fun mini-golf game, PAC-MAN Arcade Golf provides a mobile game everyone will enjoy,” said Scott Rubin, senior vice president of sales and marketing, Namco Networks. “At Namco Networks, we’re focused on creating fun casual games that appeal to mass-market consumers. We are continually committed to developing quality games that are easy to learn, fun to play and provide players with ongoing challenges.”
Playing as one of four unique golfers, each with their own strengths and weaknesses, players putt their way around the world on international mini-golf courses. In traditional mini-golf style, each increasingly challenging course contains bumpers, walls and warp holes. New twists to the mini-golf concept include bonus fruit from PAC-MAN, and coins that can be collected and then used to activate arcade machines found on the course.
Sinking the ball into an arcade machine allows players to access one of more than 100 retro mini-games based on best-selling arcade games including PAC-MAN, Dig Dug, Galaxian and a claw machine. Once players master the mini-games, PAC-MAN will become available as an additional golfer the player can choose.
PAC-MAN Arcade Golf includes Quick Play, Tournament, Challenges, and Mini-Game mode. Within Tournament mode, players players travel through Europe, the US and Japan and play three 9-hole courses in tournaments against computer-controled players. Quick Play mode allows players to choose one of the three courses and challenge up to three other friends to one, three or nine holes (single and multiplayer options are available, allowing up to four players to compete concurrently on the same handset). Challenges mode features eight holes, each with certain criteria for the player to meet in order to advance. In Mini-Games mode, players can skip right ahead to the arcade mini-games.
These games are classic! Who doesn’t like Pac-Man right? I’m glad that they’re available for cell phones. I mean, just look at the Motorokr, has awesome graphics, a full HTML browser, Java capabilities, and a whole lot of other stuff. I just think that would be cool.