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Pac-Man 256 Coming To PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC With Multiplayer (venturebeat.com)

Posted by msmash on from the nostalgia dept.

Pac-Man is coming to gaming consoles. Publisher Bandai Namco announced on Monday that Pac-Mac 256 will be launching on Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PC on June 21. The VentureBeat reports: The console version of Pac-Man 256 will include a four-player local co-op game where you and your friends will have to collaborate to eat as many pellets as possible while collectively avoiding ghosts. This means that you can have up to four people sitting together on a couch and playing the game simultaneously. Each person controls a Pac-Man, and you will work together to avoid the ghosts. Because it is "local" co-op, this isn't an online mode, and you should instead think of it as something to do at a party... if you're cool like me and play video games at parties.

54 comments

  1. Waiting for -512 myself by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Never jump on old shit.

  2. You're MINE now Pinky!!!! by NotDrWho · · Score: 1

    Payback is a BITCH!

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  3. This isn't even an article by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Pushing advertisements as faux articles is the new thing huh?

    1. Re:This isn't even an article by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      >Pushing advertisements as faux articles is the new thing huh?

      How is that supposed to be new? That's the standard.

    2. Re:This isn't even an article by MobileTatsu-NJG · · Score: 1

      Most of the articles on this site are about things we can go buy. Not sure what you're bitching about.

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    3. Re: This isn't even an article by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      > Most of the articles on this site are about things we can go buy.

      I mean, true, but I don't think you or I could afford a whole Hillary Clinton. You gotta be liek, a sheik or something

    4. Re: This isn't even an article by AK+Marc · · Score: 1

      So you are saying that most of the articles are about Hillary?

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    5. Re:This isn't even an article by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I'm complaining that this so called "article" is nothing but plugging some shitty game that two shits of the world could care about. "NEW GAME COMING TO XYZ CONSOLE ON XYZ DATE HURRAY" Yeah ummm hurray for whom? And it's so selective that it feels like Namco paid slashdot to do this.

      Selling out like this is what makes me only visit the site once a week.

    6. Re:This isn't even an article by MobileTatsu-NJG · · Score: 2

      Virtually any article about a piece of tech could be described that way. If it really truly bothers you (which I doubt, sorry.) then I suggest you don't comment in that particular thread because a high comment count will encourage them to keep posting these stories.

      In other words, your whining is working against you.

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    7. Re: This isn't even an article by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      No. Whoosh

  4. Who cares? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

    How does this affect me? How does this affect anyone else in any meaningful way? This is a complete waste of time and money. Can anyone tell me how this matters and isn't utterly useless? I think not. I know I'll get censored to -1 but it's true. You guys just don't want to answer the tough questions, so it's easier to pretend they don't exist. But can anyone give me a good reason why anyone should care about this? I highly doubt it.

    1. Re:Who cares? by GLMDesigns · · Score: 0

      If you weren't an AC I would have modded you up.

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    2. Re:Who cares? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      stale troll is stale

    3. Re:Who cares? by AK+Marc · · Score: 1

      Games are of interest. It's no more or less "important" then an article about Occulus. What "tough questions" need to be answered, and can you link to the submissions you've made about those topics?

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    4. Re:Who cares? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Pac-Man and nerds who grew up with video games.

      You figure it out.

  5. While local is becoming the unicorn of multiplayer by blueshift_1 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    In a world of online only multiplayer - it's nice to a good local multiplayer come out.

  6. Slow News Day huh? by Nyder · · Score: 0

    I guess it's a slow Monday for good news stories. Because in all my years of being on slashdot, no one has ever gave a fuck about seeing stories about games that are being released for the consoles & PC. This shit isn't new, or even news.

    Get this shit the fuck off my lawn!

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    1. Re:Slow News Day huh? by NotDrWho · · Score: 1

      no one has ever gave a fuck about seeing stories about games that are being released for the consoles & PC

      Agreed. It if ain't available on Amiga, then I don't give a FUCK!

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    2. Re:Slow News Day huh? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You must be new here: https://games.slashdot.org/story/00/06/07/1659226/diablo-2-goes-gold

  7. Why are they releasing this on LUDDITE PC and PS4? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

    App-Man 256 is an appy APP app, not a LUDDITE game, so it should be limited to App Phones and Xbox One, which runs Appdows 10! Releasing it on LUDDITE PC and PS4 means LUDDITES are going to ruin it!

    Apps!

  8. God damn by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    This is the worst fucking console generation since the invention of home gaming. It's all either HD-remasters of everything everyone bought last generation or stupid arcadey bullshit you could run on an RPi. My condolences to anyone who doesn't have a decent PC, those poor folks are screwed.

    1. Re:God damn by U2xhc2hkb3QgU3Vja3M · · Score: 1

      No Man's Sky seems interesting, both as a game and as a how it works.

    2. Re:God damn by xxxJonBoyxxx · · Score: 1

      >> worst fucking console generation since the invention of home gaming

      I own a Wii U. I feel the same way. Even this game isn't coming to the Wii U. Even retread titles like Zelda aren't coming to the Wii U. Like you said, it's a good thing I still have a decent PC. My kids are likely to skip consoles altogether, having played old school games on emulators and now just attached to their individual phones and tablets. But there's still the "party" aspect of all playing on the same screen that's fading fast, and Nintendo (and others) should know better.

    3. Re:God damn by CronoCloud · · Score: 1

      This is the worst fucking console generation since the invention of home gaming. It's all either HD-remasters of everything everyone bought last generation or stupid arcadey bullshit you could run on an RPi.

      Ha, ha, but no. The FIRST generation was the worst:

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

      All we had was Pong variations.

      I have a PS4, it isn't "all" HD remasters and indie arcade bullshit that one could run on a RPi.

      Among the games I have on it, Diablo 3, TESO, Fallout 4, Disney infinity, Rebel Galaxy (well worth playing) The first lego Marvel game, Wasteland, Divine Divinity, War Thunder (with full HOTAS support by the way), Onigiri, Rocket League, Trans-Galactic Tournament (better than Invokers tournament...but I haven't tried Smite yet), the ful PS4 Minecraft (not the cut-down Pi version).

      Plus a few HD remasters like Akiba's Trip (also on my Vita) (FFX/X-2 (Also on the Vita), Day of the Tentacle (also on the Vita), Grim Fandango (also on the Vita)

      And a bunch of indies like Dragon Fin Soup, Axiom Verge, La Mulan, etc etc. (some of which I also have on the Vita)

    4. Re:God damn by UnknownSoldier · · Score: 1

      No, not really.

      The problem is that multiplayer is completely screwed -- you spawn at some random location in the universe. Want to meet up with your buddy? Yeah, good luck with that.

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    5. Re:God damn by AK+Marc · · Score: 1

      The previous and the current are the same generation. More like a dot rev. Wii U is Wii (plus a little). PS4 is PS3 with better graphics and worse media management. XBoxOne is a 360 running Win10. The "features" between them aren't greatly changed. Not like Xbox and Xbox 360, or Gamecube and Wii.

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    6. Re:God damn by U2xhc2hkb3QgU3Vja3M · · Score: 1

      And even though the authors keep saying that it's not made to be a multiplayer game, people keep bitching about it.

  9. Shouldn't that be... by Dan+East · · Score: 1

    Shouldn't that be Pacman 0? Or are they using something larger than a byte?

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    1. Re:Shouldn't that be... by damnbunni · · Score: 1

      The gag is that you have to keep continuously moving upwards because a line of corruption that looks like the Pac-Man 256 level glitch keeps slowly moving up the screen.

  10. Shouldn't they change the name... by The+Grim+Reefer · · Score: 5, Funny

    Each person controls a Pac-Man

    Shouldn't the name be changed to "Pac-Men"? Or is Ms. Pac-Man an option? So they should go with Pac-People.

    Actually, shouldn't Pac-Man be banned? It's racist or color-phobic or something. Only the yellow things are represented as "good". And ghosts are all "bad". Plus it promotes an unrealistic body type and lifestyle. Pac-Man just eats and eats and never gains any weight. On top of that, all he eats are pills. So it promotes drug use. Are those pills certified organic or vegan? It doesn't say so, so they must not be. And we all know that anyone who eats meat is contributing more to global warming. So Pac-Man is a denier too. Anyone who isn't vegan also must be cruel to animals. I'm going to have to notify PETA as well.

    1. Re:Shouldn't they change the name... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Man, I wanted to make the Pac-People claim and stuff about your patriarchal ideals and such, but you just took it so much further than I could have. Bravo sir.

    2. Re:Shouldn't they change the name... by U2xhc2hkb3QgU3Vja3M · · Score: 1

      You win post of the day! Congratulations!

    3. Re:Shouldn't they change the name... by SpankiMonki · · Score: 2

      Actually, shouldn't Pac-Man be banned?

      No, but we may need to pass a law mandating the bathrooms that Inky, Blinky, Pinky and Clyde are supposed to use.

    4. Re:Shouldn't they change the name... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      While Pac-man was running around darkened club rooms eating pills, only goodness knows what the ghosts were doing in the club toilet.
      Snorting something, or perhaps engaging in lewd behaviour?

    5. Re:Shouldn't they change the name... by umafuckit · · Score: 1

      Pac-Man just eats and eats and never gains any weight. On top of that, all he eats are pills. So it promotes drug use. Are those pills certified organic or vegan? It doesn't say so, so they must not be. And we all know that anyone who eats meat is contributing more to global warming. So Pac-Man is a denier too. Anyone who isn't vegan also must be cruel to animals. I'm going to have to notify PETA as well.

      I wouldn't bother, I'm sure all this has already occurred to them.

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    6. Re:Shouldn't they change the name... by ausekilis · · Score: 1

      I'm a little more concerned that it was 4 of them, in a confined space, with all of them moving over and around one another.

      I don't know what ghost "leavings" smell like, but I bet it's a new level of wrong. No wonder Pacman runs away from them.

    7. Re:Shouldn't they change the name... by CauseBy · · Score: 1

      It might be racist but it's not whitewashed. I assume Pac-Man is Asian based on his skin color, plus he eats a lot of fish right?

    8. Re:Shouldn't they change the name... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      And we all know that anyone who eats meat is contributing more to global warming.

      That's a misconception. Cows produce a lot of methane, a greenhouse gas. Eating steak, hamburgers, and other bovine products, reduces the global population of cows, resulting in less greenhouse gas emissions, resulting in less global warming. So in fact anyone who does NOT eat meat is contributing more to global warming by not assisting with the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.

  11. Woo / Yay by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Mobile game gets console port. In unrelated news slashdot mod checks e-mail to see if they received a paypal payment from bandai namco

  12. Similarity with Clinton's campaign by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Running like the ghosts, trying to avoid prison.

  13. Re:While local is becoming the unicorn of multipla by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    In a world of online only multiplayer - it's nice to a good local multiplayer come out.

    grumble grumble, halo 5, grumble grumble titanfall...

  14. Re:While local is becoming the unicorn of multipla by dryeo · · Score: 1

    For a local game it sure wanted a lot of permissions on my Android tablet. Didn't mind the contacts as I have none, but why the hell it needs access to my camera amongst other things I don't know. Anyways I refused the permissions.

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  15. Hooray for multiplayer! by jdavidb · · Score: 1

    We tried Pac-Man 256 awhile ago and really liked it. I have 8 children and most of them are old enough for video games. They are going to love a multiplayer mode!

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    1. Re: Hooray for multiplayer! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Have you heard of condoms?

  16. For us older folks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEGSFk-vCqU

    Enjoy. :)

  17. The gaming industry is cutting edge! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    It's so good to see the gaming industry take such bold actions as continuously recycling old IP year after year, decade after decade, century after century... I look forward to the day my grandchildren's grandchildren will play Call of Black Ops 49: Hyper Infinity and Pac-Man: Hypercube in the HoloMatrix 5D.

  18. How about player controlled ghosts? by antdude · · Score: 2

    Player controlled ghosts chase after the one player controlled Pac-Man?

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    1. Re:How about player controlled ghosts? by The-Ixian · · Score: 1

      Thinking outside the box is not tolerated.

      You will buy this game on nostalgia alone. You will play it once and convince yourself that you are having fun. During this time, someone will come into the room and you will be embarrassed that you are playing pac-man and you turn it off in favor of one of your 10 1st person shooter games.

      The Pac-man game will then move its way to the end of your home row, unplayed, until one night while drunk and hanging with a few equally drunk friends, you bust it out and have a blast playing pac-man with each other.

      That moment will be nearly forgotten by the next day and, despite trying to recapture that experience a few more times, you will never succeed.

      Ultimately, you will delete the game from your console altogether.

      By that time a remake of Asteroids will come out and the cycle will begin anew.

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    2. Re:How about player controlled ghosts? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      It's been done and I had a blast playing it weekly with friends back in the day.
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pac-Man_Vs.
      Sadly it's a bit obsure as it was a bonus disc and you had to have a gamecube and three GBAs.

    3. Re:How about player controlled ghosts? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      That would be Pac Man Vs if you're interested. It's actually pretty fun if you want to invest in lots of Nintendo hardware to play it.

  19. If you're cool... ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

    "if you're cool like me and play video games at parties."

    If you play video games at parties you're definitely NOT cool. You're weird, you're a nerd, nobody wants to be with you and we'll beat you up and shove you heads down into an unflushed toilet.

    1. Re:If you're cool... ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      nobody wants to be with you and we'll beat you up and shove you heads down into an unflushed toilet.

      "Dude"(Nerd) you are trolling a nerd website.

    2. Re:If you're cool... ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      So what? I once brown-swirlied the whole computer club. A nerd website only requires more unflushed toilets.

  20. PC-Man. SJWs strike again. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    So now we have a "healthy at any size" quadruple amputee main character, of indeterminate gender (I suspect trans man) that has eaten themselves spherical and just keeps eating.
    My god their poor liver is struggling so hard with the obesity, that the character has turned yellow, and they still insist they are healthy at any size and can keep eating.

    On the other side are male "Ghosts" a racist term for whites, who have been spitefully colored in rainbow colors to offend their conservative ways.