Lost In Translation/Pac & Pal

Pac & Pal
Manufacturer	Namco
Released	1983
Control; Method	4-way Joystick; 1 Button(s)
Main CPU	(3x) M6809 (@ 1.536 MHz); M6809 (@ 1.536 MHz)
Sound CPU	Mono; Namco 15XX (@ 24.000 kHz)
Video; Details	Raster (Vertical); 288 x 224 pixels; 60.61 Hz; 512 Palette colours
Screens	1
ROM Info	10 ROMs; 41,760 bytes (40.78 KiB)
MAME ID	pacnpal · pacnchmp · pacnpal2

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For an example of preferred content and layout please refer to Out Run or The Ninja Warriors.

About The Game

Pac & Pal is an arcade video game.

Pac-Man has a new friend named Miru, but she tries to steal stuff for her own use. Pac-Man now not only has to collect the stuff lying around the board, but he also must watch Miru to make sure she doesn't take the stuff for her own use.

Trivia

Released in July 1983.

The 'Pal' in the game's title is named Miru.

An alternate version of this game features Chomp Chomp, Pac-Man's dog from the animated cartoon series, in place of Miru, and the game's name is changed accordingly : "Pac-Man & Chomp-Chomp".

First "Pac-Man" game to have music during gameplay.

Scoring

Cards : 10-100 points, dying resets cards to ten points.
Regular Items: 50-500 points.
Power Items : 1000 points.
Stunning Ghosts : 200, 400, 800, 1600 points.
Key : 700 - 5000 points.
End of round bonus : 100 X items eaten.
Bonus Rounds :
- Cards : 100-1000 points.
- Uncovering Miru : doubles points of cards uncovered afterwards.
- Uncovering Blinky : ends round.

Tips and tricks

Easter Egg

Enter service mode and enter the following sequence : Left, Right(x9), Down(x5), Up(x6). '(c) (p) 1982 NAMCO LTD.' will be added at the bottom of the screen.

Eat Selfishly!

Don't let Miru eat the fruit. Bonus points are awarded 'perfect boards' when Pac-Man eats all fruit himself, and the bonus increases with each 'perfect board'.

Series

Puckman (1980)
Ms. Pac-Man (1981)
Super Pac-Man (1982)
Pac-Man Plus (1982)
Jr. Pac-Man (1983)
Pac & Pal (1983)
Pac-Land (1984)
Pac-Mania (1987)
Pac-In-Time (1994, Nintendo Super Famicom)
Pac-Man 2 - The New Adventures (1994, Nintendo Super Famicom and Sega Mega Drive)
Pac-Man VR (1996)
Pac-Man World (1999, Sony PlayStation)
Pac-Man - Adventures in Time (2000, PC CD-ROM)
Ms. Pac-Man Maze Madness (2000, Sony PlayStation)
Ms. Pac-Man - Quest for the Golden Maze (2001, PC CD-ROM)
Pac-Man All-Stars (2002, PC CD-ROM)
Pac-Man Fever (2002, Sony PlayStation 2)
Pac-Man World 2 (2002, Sony PlayStation 2, Nintendo GameCube, and Microsoft XBOX; 2004, PC CD-ROM)
Pac-Man vs. (2003, Nintendo GameCube)
Ms. Pac-Man - Maze Madness (2004, Nintendo GameBoy Advance)
Pac-Man World 3 (2005, Sony PSP, Sony PlayStation 2, Nintendo GameCube, Microsoft XBOX, PC CD-ROM, and Nintendo DS)
Pac'n Roll (2005, Nintendo DS)
Pac-Pix (2005, Nintendo DS)

Cabinet and Artwork

Pac & Pal flyer.
Back of the Pac & Pal flyer.

Ports

Others: Super Pac-Man TV game (2006 - Jakks Pacific)

Soundtrack Releases

Album Name	Catalogue No.	Released	Publisher	Comments
Namco Arcade 80's	SCDC-00272^[1]	2003-05-21	Scitron Discs	CD version.

References

↑ Namco Arcade 80's (CD) at the VGMdb

The contents of this page are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
The sources used include MAME (version 0.113u2) and history.dat (revision 1.28 - 2008-10-18).
Please see http://www.arcade-history.com for credits.

[1] Namco Arcade 80's (CD) at the VGMdb

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