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.
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!
I have no interest in old tech or games really - or not so much that I'd actually search it up online - but I enjoy these videos very much for some weird reason. They make me feel extremely calm and I've been pretty stressed for a long time now. Not saying you're singlehandedly made me feel better, as I've subscribed to many other youtube channels that bring entertainment in my life, but thought I'd let you know that I appreciate every single upload from you LGR.
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.
It's funny when you think how many Pac-Man clones there are in the world. The game itself created a simple formula for budding programmers to emulate and copy on to get their feet on the ground in game design. In respects, Pac-Man not only changed the gaming market, but he also inspired many game designers to get into the market and helped make it the flourished media it is today. I think out of respect of that, I'm going to main Pac-Man in Smash Bros. for the 3DS and Wii U.
"You play a cheese pizza with a slice missing that wanders around dark corridors while ingesting copious amounts of medication, while outmaneuvering four spectral souls of the dead" the best description of pac man i've ever heard
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
Well, that's not the whole truth. The blame was simply the extraordinary short timeframes Atari gave programmers to shell out games. Programmer Tod Frye was given just six months to singlehandedly reverse engineer a mega-popular arcade game on the 2600, a system that was only intended to have three moving sprites and almost no system RAM to speak of. To make matters even more demanding, Atari corporate management demanded Frye use only a 4K ROM, despite his repeated requests the game use 8K which was already available at the time. Atari cheaped out both in terms of development costs (the quicker a game is made, the less you have to pay a programmer) and also their selfish limiting the game to 4K to reduce costs even further. And remember, the developer's toolkit for making 2600 games is incredibly primitive to what homebrew producers of 2600 games today have. Given the severe limitations Frye had to contend with (time, ROM space and primitive development tools) it's pretty amazing the 2600 Pac-Man turned as good as it did. Sure it isn't nearly as good as the arcade, but it's playable, recognizable, and for better or worse, is one of the most iconic 2600 games there is.
That actually is true. This is one of the two games that well, kinda killed Atari's reputation. The other one being 1982's ET (which the carts were found in the Desert for real)
Awesome channel! As a PC gamer myself since '89 or so when I had my first PC (8MHz 8086 without HD at first), LGR videos really bring back the memories from the "good old times". To me, the golden age of PC lasted from there to about 1998-99 when 3D acceleration came out of its infancy to its puberty (and I was well over 20 years old at the same time, which probably plays a role in my timeline). Especially early 90's were great times for the games, as well as for demo scene and MOD music. You should definitely take a look at some of the best demos from the MS-DOS era on your channel also! Check out Future Crew stuff for example, just beautiful! They should be quite easily available and I've managed to run them on DOSBox just fine.
One day, many years after watching this video, I browsed the faculty list of our department at UCD, and then I saw Greg Kuperberg's name. He's still doing math and computer science interdisciplinary work! Such a role model for me to follow.
For anyone interested in the outro music - the link in the description apparently is no more. You can find the album and track here: n00bstar.bandcamp.com/album/big-whoop
Yeah, I'd need copious amounts of medication myself if I were being pursued by the armies of the undead. Way to clarify the plot line here, oh the humanity :)
At least two versions of this game exist. The second version included a high score table, but the Esc key was disabled, so you had to Ctrl+Alt+Del just to get out of the program. I can see why the distributors were divided over which version was better.
I would love for you to do a tour of all your stuff. Your games, computers, etc. Where you put all your stuff, how its all setup and what do you use/play the most. DO IT! =)
I've been mulling over that idea for a while now, and certainly want to do so sometime. It's just a huge undertaking, since my collection is so large and spread out, and I don't want to just skim over things.
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.
$87!? Are you kidding me? Talk about expensive game. A game, that is a clone of an more popular game. Sweet. I think this isn't really possible these d... oh I forgot EA's sport games.
You have to remember that the people who would've bought this in 1983 were business workers looking for some in-office leisure; compared to the cost of Lotus 1-2-3, this was cheap.
Virus.DOS.Espacio Interesting virus based on this particular game. Not sure if the same code but very likely the case. The game board is as far as I can tell shaped exactly the same.
I still don't understand though . They got away with this game selling for $35 and not being sued . Yet games on such things has the consoles were being pulled off the shelves .
As far as I know, you can't be sued for selling an overpriced game (And in this case, given that it's a good game, maybe it wasn't overpriced at the time). Only if they can prove you lied or falsely advertised to the customer, as with Aliens: Colonial Marines.
fountainhead You can be sued for copyright infringement, and this game would undoubtedly be shut down by Namco for just that if it was being released in 2014.
fountainhead I believe the price was mentioned as Namco would have been really pissed about someone getting a lot of money off of something based upon their property.
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.
When I was a kid, we had a 1st person pacman clone, and I've been looking everywhere for it. When I say 1st person, it was a tile movement kind of 1st person with simple line graphics, kind of like the dungeons in Ultima 1, and when the ghosts killed you, you saw their mouths close over your screen
Ever heard of Chipmunk Software? That was my dad and his brother. They did exactly this in the 80's. They would recreate popular arcade games on IBM PC from scratch. They created a version of Q-Bert called Q-Bee among others :)
Omigosh! I just noticed at the 1:32 mark that Orion Software, the company that made this Pac-Man clone, was based in Auburn, Alabama! I'm from Gadsden and Pell City, Alabama! Roll Tide Roll, and in the case of Orion Software, War Eagle!
vwestlife Plus I may be mistaken, but I THINK he did a video where he makes quick mention of a bunch of Pac Man clones. I seem to recall a quick screen shot of this game in that video of this game. Then again, it COULD have been another ytuber, or...even an elaborate dream sequence in my own head (lol :) ) but no, I'm fairly certain he talked about it...vaguely.
this video is like a time machine transporting me back to the early 80's..thx its amazing games could be written for a base machine with 64K ram and a less than hi-fi speaker ..lol one early favorite also was the Star trek, a public domain game written in Basic initially developed for an HP mini-computer. Text character game..you moved the Enterprise ( an "E" on the screen) around different sectors and had to eliminate the dreaded klingon ships. If you ever encounter a book Basic Computer Games - Microcomputer edition, grab it ! Written by David H Ahl , an employee of Digital Equipment Corp ( a now defunct mini-computer corp) first published around 1972, it includes Basic code listings for 100 games including Star trek.
Holy crap I had this for my dad's Sanyo 8086! Monochrome, 1 floppy drive, that's it. The intro music was so damn loud I had to cover the pc speaker so my parents didn't know I was slacking off.
1:37 I actually have a copy that is boxed (as well as Pits & Stones). It's a clear plastic clamshell type case. The Orion Software logo at the bottom of the front cover (between the "micro-monsters") is different as well.
There is an obscure PC emulator called PCE that emulates, a fully compatible PC clone with an 80186 (that's right) processor and includes the bios files you need already configured. The problem is getting games into it. It comes with a HD image with dos and a diskette images which can be mounted in dosbox and copied onto the floppy file which can then be copied onto the hard disk of the emulator. It's very good for early games and I think it supports VGA.
"A cheese pizza with a slice missing wandering around dark corridors and ingesting copious amounts of medication while outmanoeuvring four spectral souls of the dead."...Kick....start.....now....
Ive known this game for all my life ofc like everybody else but only recently came to my attention that the ghosts in the original arcade game of Pac-Man had very different set of "chase rules" to each other. fascinating, isn't it?
There's actually a DOS virus called Espacio, and the pay-load actually forces the user to play a game of PC-Man. It's the exact same thing as this, except with the copyright text changed. Also, I'm a bit confused, as the version of PC-Man I have actually runs under DOS.
Lazy Game Reviews thepirategamerboy12 You're both all right. The Espacio Virus actually displays the full word "PAC" instead of "PC" at the title screen, and also made other changes to the proverbial "READY!" that would flash on screen before the action. I have 2 DOS versions of this game, very minute differences between them. One is about 2 kilobytes larger than the other. The only differences I can find are one does NOT display "Today's High Score", nor does it save the high scores to disk. It also has a different sound effect when you get a bonus item (candy cane, watermelon, etc), makes a "beep-beep-beep-beep-beep", instead of a "chirrup" sound. Also the first one I can exit by pressing ESC, second one I can't; only way out is a three-finger-salute (or throw the big red switch). Looking inside the files with an ASCII test viewer, there's no difference in the text between the 2 versions, except for the missing stuff in the first. Copyright date and everything else is the same. If I had to guess, the first one was "hacked" to allow exiting back to DOS by using the ESC key, and for sake of simplicity the high score saving routine was removed, to prevent the game from complaining. Second version that has all that stuff also includes text such as "Your PC-MAN disk is not in the drive". Oddly enough, it does allow saving of high scores, and doesn't care it's on a hard drive.
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
Heh. When I was 14 I played pc-games like maniac. Didn't matter much what game it was with only a few exceptions. Pac-man style games were one of those. Incredibly frustrating. But thanks for a nice review anyway:)
*or oder monitor* (can be seen at 1:35 ). Was that a typo in the ad or is there an odor monitor? I go way back, but at the time this was out, I was still using Commodore, and didn't go PC until 93, though I have lots of experience with 5150s and XTs
This port is great. Looks the part but for understandable reasons it doesnt have the "real" sounds. But its way better than the Atari 2600 version. Great vid
I played another PacMan clone back in the day on an Amstrad PC compatible. And I would say it was better than this and that Atari official release. Were there tons of these clones then? I'll fish it out if you're interested.
This is just a random question, but I have an extra Packard Bell 406 CD with digital control monitor set I was looking to get rid of. Would you like to buy it from me?
... Wait, is the version freely available a DOS port? Since you talk about needing DOSbox and at the beginning you mentioned that game boots the PC and as such requires no OS.
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.
fascinating things these pc booter games! could you imagine something like this in a modern context ? haha you insert this memory stick on your pc before booting it up and when you turn on the power, voilà! you are already at the main menu of the game! maybe with small indie games it might be possible... who knows...
LMAO... Oh man... Queen of Hearts looks almost identical to an ASCII clone of Pac-Man I wrote in Qbasic back when I was like 12. In fact, for a split-second, I almost thought that WAS the Pac-Man game I had written, and I didn't know whether to be proud that it was briefly shown on LGR or whether I should simply focus my mind on trying to spontaneously combust because of how crappy that game I wrote was. I still kinda want to spontaneously combust simply knowing that Pac-Man game I wrote is still out there on the web somewhere.
They move in different patterns too, with the red ghost in particular making a beeline for you at the start. I didn't find it much harder than the original though, once you get used to the new patterns.
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.
He is a genius, still. Now a professor of physics at UCSD and playing pacman with subatomic particles, no doubt.
The fact he had to write these in ASM is a blessing for an enthusiast like myself.
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!
Alliteration: *the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.*
Linguistic skills then.
I have no interest in old tech or games really - or not so much that I'd actually search it up online - but I enjoy these videos very much for some weird reason. They make me feel extremely calm and I've been pretty stressed for a long time now. Not saying you're singlehandedly made me feel better, as I've subscribed to many other youtube channels that bring entertainment in my life, but thought I'd let you know that I appreciate every single upload from you LGR.
That's awesome, I'm glad to hear it. Thanks a bunch for the feedback and I hope you continue to enjoy!
Lgr, Have you ever considered a review of the old pc game The Bard's Tale or it's remake of the same name?
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.
It's funny when you think how many Pac-Man clones there are in the world. The game itself created a simple formula for budding programmers to emulate and copy on to get their feet on the ground in game design. In respects, Pac-Man not only changed the gaming market, but he also inspired many game designers to get into the market and helped make it the flourished media it is today.
I think out of respect of that, I'm going to main Pac-Man in Smash Bros. for the 3DS and Wii U.
This is Joey, Paul, Willie and Frankie.
"You play a cheese pizza with a slice missing that wanders around dark corridors while ingesting copious amounts of medication, while outmaneuvering four spectral souls of the dead" the best description of pac man i've ever heard
I love your old PC Game Reviews! You totally taught me everything I know about old software/computers!
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
Aha! The refrence of PC Man being a pizza is a referring to his orgins of how he was created! Is this intentional?
Very!
Is it Red Baron pizza?
Well, at least it's better than the 2600 version of Pac-Man.
Light years better! Amen.
Everything is better than Atari 2600 version of Pac-man
Everything is better than the 2600 in general. Or at least the early 80s era of the 2600.
Well, that's not the whole truth. The blame was simply the extraordinary short timeframes Atari gave programmers to shell out games.
Programmer Tod Frye was given just six months to singlehandedly reverse engineer a mega-popular arcade game on the 2600, a system that was only intended to have three moving sprites and almost no system RAM to speak of.
To make matters even more demanding, Atari corporate management demanded Frye use only a 4K ROM, despite his repeated requests the game use 8K which was already available at the time. Atari cheaped out both in terms of development costs (the quicker a game is made, the less you have to pay a programmer) and also their selfish limiting the game to 4K to reduce costs even further. And remember, the developer's toolkit for making 2600 games is incredibly primitive to what homebrew producers of 2600 games today have.
Given the severe limitations Frye had to contend with (time, ROM space and primitive development tools) it's pretty amazing the 2600 Pac-Man turned as good as it did.
Sure it isn't nearly as good as the arcade, but it's playable, recognizable, and for better or worse, is one of the most iconic 2600 games there is.
That actually is true. This is one of the two games that well, kinda killed Atari's reputation. The other one being 1982's ET (which the carts were found in the Desert for real)
Awesome channel! As a PC gamer myself since '89 or so when I had my first PC (8MHz 8086 without HD at first), LGR videos really bring back the memories from the "good old times". To me, the golden age of PC lasted from there to about 1998-99 when 3D acceleration came out of its infancy to its puberty (and I was well over 20 years old at the same time, which probably plays a role in my timeline). Especially early 90's were great times for the games, as well as for demo scene and MOD music. You should definitely take a look at some of the best demos from the MS-DOS era on your channel also! Check out Future Crew stuff for example, just beautiful! They should be quite easily available and I've managed to run them on DOSBox just fine.
One day, many years after watching this video, I browsed the faculty list of our department at UCD, and then I saw Greg Kuperberg's name. He's still doing math and computer science interdisciplinary work! Such a role model for me to follow.
For anyone interested in the outro music - the link in the description apparently is no more.
You can find the album and track here: n00bstar.bandcamp.com/album/big-whoop
Great job!! I love your reviews of old PC games. I'm old enough to remember some of these.
Best description of the story and motives of the character i have ever heard!
Yeah, I'd need copious amounts of medication myself if I were being pursued by the armies of the undead. Way to clarify the plot line here, oh the humanity :)
At least two versions of this game exist. The second version included a high score table, but the Esc key was disabled, so you had to Ctrl+Alt+Del just to get out of the program. I can see why the distributors were divided over which version was better.
Oh hi, Espacio DOS virus! :D
so PC-MAN was the game that lated was converted into the Espacio DOS virus. amazing to find the original game here!
I would love for you to do a tour of all your stuff. Your games, computers, etc. Where you put all your stuff, how its all setup and what do you use/play the most. DO IT! =)
I've been mulling over that idea for a while now, and certainly want to do so sometime. It's just a huge undertaking, since my collection is so large and spread out, and I don't want to just skim over things.
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.
We got a much cheaper version for DOS in '93.
The intro music reminds me of a DOS virus that, funnily enough, forced you to play Pac-Man. Huh.
You must be talking about Espacio, which overwrote your filles with this and would sometimes change the beginning text to "FUCK!" for a brief moment.
Ian Oliver danooct1 reviewed the espacio dos virus. Aaand you beat me to the punch.
Ian Oliver The espacio virus uses this exact program in its payload
DrChillbrain Sort of...
Ian Oliver Espacio much?
$87!?
Are you kidding me?
Talk about expensive game.
A game, that is a clone of an more popular game.
Sweet.
I think this isn't really possible these d... oh I forgot EA's sport games.
You have to remember that the people who would've bought this in 1983 were business workers looking for some in-office leisure; compared to the cost of Lotus 1-2-3, this was cheap.
I remember getting a copy of this game in the late 1980s and playing it on the PC clones at college.
Awesome vid Clint!
Aw man, this game and Hard Hat Mack were the first games I ever played. I have never felt such deep nostalgia.
Clint, you are a poet and your job is awesome.
The sleeves in the bags remind me of the Apple II games from that era.
Virus.DOS.Espacio
Interesting virus based on this particular game. Not sure if the same code but very likely the case. The game board is as far as I can tell shaped exactly the same.
Goodness sake! I thought I was the only one that remembered The Queen of Hearts Maze Game. I mean, I'm aware that's not how it works, but still...
I still don't understand though . They got away with this game selling for $35 and not being sued . Yet games on such things has the consoles were being pulled off the shelves .
As far as I know, you can't be sued for selling an overpriced game (And in this case, given that it's a good game, maybe it wasn't overpriced at the time). Only if they can prove you lied or falsely advertised to the customer, as with Aliens: Colonial Marines.
fountainhead
You can be sued for copyright infringement, and this game would undoubtedly be shut down by Namco for just that if it was being released in 2014.
Probably more concerned with bootlegs of the arcade version, which were all over the place, than this thing that nobody had heard of
Brandon (Dragon's Egg) True, but it sounded like the OP was complaining about the price of the game. Maybe I misinterpreted.
fountainhead I believe the price was mentioned as Namco would have been really pissed about someone getting a lot of money off of something based upon their property.
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.
When I was a kid, we had a 1st person pacman clone, and I've been looking everywhere for it. When I say 1st person, it was a tile movement kind of 1st person with simple line graphics, kind of like the dungeons in Ultima 1, and when the ghosts killed you, you saw their mouths close over your screen
Loving the nostalgia! LGR, I think it's about time for you to do a review for "Scorched Earth" PC,and Amiga "Scorched Tanks." :)
Ever heard of Chipmunk Software? That was my dad and his brother. They did exactly this in the 80's. They would recreate popular arcade games on IBM PC from scratch. They created a version of Q-Bert called Q-Bee among others :)
entertaining (and awesome) as always
PC-Man was really enjoyable. Some games looked really good on CGA.
Omigosh! I just noticed at the 1:32 mark that Orion Software, the company that made this Pac-Man clone, was based in Auburn, Alabama! I'm from Gadsden and Pell City, Alabama! Roll Tide Roll, and in the case of Orion Software, War Eagle!
Hm. I could of sworn LGR covered PC Man in the past.
Was that a different Pac Man clone?
Might be thinking of CD-Man! LGR - CD-Man - DOS PC Game Review
Lazy Game Reviews Or a _really_ bad clone called "MunchMan": LGR - Keypunch Games on an IBM 5150 Part 2 - Gambler, Arcade II
vwestlife
Plus I may be mistaken, but I THINK he did a video where he makes quick mention of a bunch of Pac Man clones. I seem to recall a quick screen shot of this game in that video of this game. Then again, it COULD have been another ytuber, or...even an elaborate dream sequence in my own head (lol :) ) but no, I'm fairly certain he talked about it...vaguely.
this video is like a time machine transporting me back to the early 80's..thx
its amazing games could be written for a base machine with 64K ram and a less than hi-fi speaker ..lol
one early favorite also was the Star trek, a public domain game written in Basic initially developed for an HP mini-computer. Text character game..you moved the Enterprise ( an "E" on the screen) around different sectors and had to eliminate the dreaded klingon ships.
If you ever encounter a book Basic Computer Games - Microcomputer edition, grab it !
Written by David H Ahl , an employee of Digital Equipment Corp ( a now defunct mini-computer corp) first published around 1972, it includes Basic code listings for 100 games including Star trek.
Holy crap I had this for my dad's Sanyo 8086! Monochrome, 1 floppy drive, that's it. The intro music was so damn loud I had to cover the pc speaker so my parents didn't know I was slacking off.
Nice review Clint 👍👍👍 Kim
1:37 I actually have a copy that is boxed (as well as Pits & Stones). It's a clear plastic clamshell type case. The Orion Software logo at the bottom of the front cover (between the "micro-monsters") is different as well.
Here's another Pacman clone I found years ago: Gobman, for the MS-DOS.
I had several boot loader games at the time, like Wizardry. Something the younger generation never had to deal with.
As far as I know there was a virus called "Espacio" or something like that that made you play PC-Man when being activated.
There is an obscure PC emulator called PCE that emulates, a fully compatible PC clone with an 80186 (that's right) processor and includes the bios files you need already configured. The problem is getting games into it. It comes with a HD image with dos and a diskette images which can be mounted in dosbox and copied onto the floppy file which can then be copied onto the hard disk of the emulator. It's very good for early games and I think it supports VGA.
"A cheese pizza with a slice missing wandering around dark corridors and ingesting copious amounts of medication while outmanoeuvring four spectral souls of the dead."...Kick....start.....now....
This game running on my XT back in the day made it clear to me that PCs could be a valid gaming platform. This and IDs Commander Keen series.
Ive known this game for all my life ofc like everybody else but only recently came to my attention that the ghosts in the original arcade game of Pac-Man had very different set of "chase rules" to each other. fascinating, isn't it?
Is it me or are the enemies very fast in this game?
Nice review, LGR.
PacPc2 is the best version of Pacman for DOS
And some people say modern games are expensive :) Great review like always, never played this clone before.
love this channel
There's actually a DOS virus called Espacio, and the pay-load actually forces the user to play a game of PC-Man. It's the exact same thing as this, except with the copyright text changed. Also, I'm a bit confused, as the version of PC-Man I have actually runs under DOS.
It was converted from a PC Booter game to DOS-compatible later on, and from what I gather it was just by fans or companies like Keypunch.
Lazy Game Reviews thepirategamerboy12 You're both all right. The Espacio Virus actually displays the full word "PAC" instead of "PC" at the title screen, and also made other changes to the proverbial "READY!" that would flash on screen before the action.
I have 2 DOS versions of this game, very minute differences between them. One is about 2 kilobytes larger than the other. The only differences I can find are one does NOT display "Today's High Score", nor does it save the high scores to disk. It also has a different sound effect when you get a bonus item (candy cane, watermelon, etc), makes a "beep-beep-beep-beep-beep", instead of a "chirrup" sound. Also the first one I can exit by pressing ESC, second one I can't; only way out is a three-finger-salute (or throw the big red switch).
Looking inside the files with an ASCII test viewer, there's no difference in the text between the 2 versions, except for the missing stuff in the first. Copyright date and everything else is the same. If I had to guess, the first one was "hacked" to allow exiting back to DOS by using the ESC key, and for sake of simplicity the high score saving routine was removed, to prevent the game from complaining. Second version that has all that stuff also includes text such as "Your PC-MAN disk is not in the drive". Oddly enough, it does allow saving of high scores, and doesn't care it's on a hard drive.
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That Orion Software logo reminds me of the old Origin Systems a bit.
I like the antec casing though that he found on few weeks review it's definitely a good case i saw the reviews except theres a black one.
cover the eye of the beholder series! or anything dungeons and dragons from the 80s!
1981: most PC games are text based.
2019: BRING IN THE RTX 4K textures
wow, a full booteable game... so it came with everything, no APIs or anything like that used, ALL from scratch... I'm amazed
I once played a primitive DOS version of Pacman but I don't remember anything about it anymore.
Since RUclips sucks and got rid of end title cards, what is that first-person dungeon crawler on the right at the end? Looks interesting.
It's _Elder Scrolls: Daggerfall_
The LGR review video is here: ruclips.net/video/LyXpbK5aPEo/видео.html
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
Your voice is just so easy to listen to.
Can you do a review of Heavy Metal Fakk2? I've seen it on your shelf in a few videos. Cheers from another Clint.
Heh. When I was 14 I played pc-games like maniac. Didn't matter much what game it was with only a few exceptions. Pac-man style games were one of those. Incredibly frustrating. But thanks for a nice review anyway:)
*or oder monitor* (can be seen at 1:35 ). Was that a typo in the ad or is there an odor monitor? I go way back, but at the time this was out, I was still using Commodore, and didn't go PC until 93, though I have lots of experience with 5150s and XTs
I enjoyed this video! Earned a subbed!
This looks like it has a nice little charm to it. :)
It say pc man? I actually thought it said PAC man...
Every time a company or character shares it's name with me, I look up like "you rang?"
This port is great. Looks the part but for understandable reasons it doesnt have the "real" sounds. But its way better than the Atari 2600 version. Great vid
Restricted? My Dad has Windows 8 but still uses Lotus 1-2-3. No matter how hard I try to make him use a program made after mouse scrolling.
Have you ever just on a whim sent off for a old game or registration index card's from your vintage game collection.
This game is the the espacio dos virus, with a modified title screen
Fun fact: Greg Kuperberg was a polish born mathmetician, who's still alive to this day!
Funnily enough - Espacio DOS virus includes this game inside.
Great work 🙂
Are you going to do a sims 4 video and your thoughts about what they left out and play the demo?
I played another PacMan clone back in the day on an Amstrad PC compatible. And I would say it was better than this and that Atari official release. Were there tons of these clones then? I'll fish it out if you're interested.
This is just a random question, but I have an extra Packard Bell 406 CD with digital control monitor set I was looking to get rid of. Would you like to buy it from me?
What is the name of the dungeon crawler game displayed during the outro? RUclips will not let me click on the video.
Nice episode.
... Wait, is the version freely available a DOS port? Since you talk about needing DOSbox and at the beginning you mentioned that game boots the PC and as such requires no OS.
DOSBox supports PC Booter games just fine, actually. But yes, there are also DOS ports of the game as well.
PacMan Fever!! I love it!
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.
the song playing in the background is from forza motorsport 3
i unsubscribed.... So i could subscribe again!"
fascinating things these pc booter games!
could you imagine something like this in a modern context ? haha
you insert this memory stick on your pc before booting it up and when you turn on the power, voilà!
you are already at the main menu of the game!
maybe with small indie games it might be possible... who knows...
Espacio is it's evil twin
Bro! There's still a computer land where I live!
Hey, is there any chance you could do a video on PC booter software? Like, how it works, why it was used, and why it stopped being used?
J-Bird for $36.95?! That's insane
Murphy's Laws for $20!
LMAO... Oh man... Queen of Hearts looks almost identical to an ASCII clone of Pac-Man I wrote in Qbasic back when I was like 12. In fact, for a split-second, I almost thought that WAS the Pac-Man game I had written, and I didn't know whether to be proud that it was briefly shown on LGR or whether I should simply focus my mind on trying to spontaneously combust because of how crappy that game I wrote was. I still kinda want to spontaneously combust simply knowing that Pac-Man game I wrote is still out there on the web somewhere.
The Red Ghost is too fast, the game looks harder than the original because of that.
Yeah, I was expecting him to mention that.
They move in different patterns too, with the red ghost in particular making a beeline for you at the start. I didn't find it much harder than the original though, once you get used to the new patterns.
Yeah, I get that. It's just in the original, you knew you could outrun the red ghost as long as you didn't make any false moves.
there is a dos trojan which forces you to play a Spanish bootleg of this game called espacio
Back in the day when PCs WERE weaker than consoles but had great games none the less :D
I enjoy this game.
How far have you seen ? i seeing to the star and managed to get to the candle
Any chance of reviews of the Kings quests or Hugo series?