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LGR - PC-Man - PC Booter Game Review

LGR - PC-Man - PC Booter Game Review

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Rating: 4.0; Vote: 1
One of the oldest PC games I own, and one of the first proper Pac-Man games for IBM PCs and compatibles from 1982! BdR76: 0: 45 I found it amazing that Greg Kuperberg programmed these pc games at only 15 years old. I mailed him asking about this and he actually replied. He said he had some experience with BASIC and Pascal, but could only use assembler language for these games, because compilers for IBM pc weren't available yet. That is hardcore, this guy was a true boy genius. Both his parents were math professors and they were very encouraging, so that kind of explains it I guess.
Date: 2022-04-14

Comments and reviews: 9


I'm pretty sure I posted a comment on this video a while ago, but anyway.
PC-Man, alongside Alley Cat, were the very first games I've ever played, long before I got a GameBoy Color, long before I played games at friends' houses. You should make a review of Alley Cat anytime soon, Clint. I still have memories of entering in panic the moment a bulldog enters the screen and tears the cat apart. Oh, the nostalgia.

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a version of this was actually used in a DOS virus called espacio
it masquerades as a normal version of pac-man, except every time you close it, it opens itself again some time later
the intervals between the game reopening itself also get shorter and shorter every time you play, eventually reducing you to spamming ctrl+alt+delete until you get a stack overflow

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This review is awesome. I had never seen this before. There was no way my parents were going to buy me a PC in 1982 or pay $87 adjusted for inflation dollars for a video game. But man I would have loved it. I used to fantasize about having a decent Pac-Man game to play at home. I spent and wasted hours playing the Atari 2600 version.
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YEEES, I finally found it. This was the version that I played with my friends when I was in primary school, many years ago. Thanks LGR.
There was a trick in the first level to catch 1600 points (eat the 4 enemies at once) because the enemies had a pattern. I think the highest level that I got was the candle one. Such great memories.

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never played this one: P and retro games are making a come back
in this day and age if i am going to watch pc games this is the place
to be: )
Any chance of a time shock pinball dos game yeah i know i keep
asking with the pc i have now i dos box comes in handy yet it
will play time shock
keep up the good work LG

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Thumbs up all the way if for no more than your description of PC-MAN being -A cheese pizza with a slice missing that roams around dark corridors, ingesting copious amounts of medication while outmaneuvering four spectral souls of the dead. - Wonderfully done, sir. Hats off to your alliteration skills!
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Holy shit that game is expensive. That's like pre-ordering the Sims 4 Digital Deluxe from Origin, then deciding you need to buy you some Unreal '04 from Steam. and spending the rest on some gum to chew while you flak Avarice.
So basically, 86 dollars for Pac-Man in a plastic sleeve.

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I wonder if there will be a game review on horrorgaming that will be awesome i like horror games that much i have resident evil collection, sims collection, wrestlemania collection, call of duty collection thats bout it. :D and a bunch of other stuff to many to mention.
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This was probably also reverse engineered and packaged as virus in 93; Virus. DOS. espacio - the sounds are same, and play field is also flipped in exact way. Only difference is the title screen saying -PAC MAN- and something in foreign language.
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