Well if you look at the 2600 version Pacman's head didn't even turn when going up and down the mazes. He just remained neutral. The 5200 fixed everything that was wrong which gave the 5200 a much more arcade version experience. So yes, that makes it play better.
@@ahrichards5241 there is the joystick adapter for 5200 that allowed for a self centering stick. So thatd be better than the 5200 controller forsure. But u still need the standard 5200 controller to plug it in to..
+shannonm75 I still have my cartridge from June 1983. I bought it just a month after getting my 5200 for my 17th Birthday. I still play it to this day!!!
I had the Atari 400/800 version, which was essentially the same as this but didn't have the cutscenes. (It used the 2600-style controllers, though, which was very good for this game.)
I have found memories of this game as it was the first Pac-Man game I ever played. My upstairs neighbor had the Atari 5200 with Pac-Man, Space Invaders, and Missile Command. Many Friday nights were spent playing those games.
This was my childhood back in the day, along with the NES, Sega Genesis, Intellivision, SNES, etc.. But then my grandfather randomly decided to sell our Atari, Intellivision, and all of the games that went with it to his friend, Sam, even though we were STILL PLAYING IT! D:
You never had an Atari 5200, you just used this video as an opportunity to insult your grandfather who raised you when you mother wouldn't because she was on drugs
@@aarontillman3772 - show me some proof of a child playing Atari 5200 when they had an SNES. The 5200's controller contacts corroded and stopped working long before the SNES was released, but this person claims she was still playing it.
@@customsongmaker Hi. I did. Yeah, the 5200 barely worked because of the craptacular controller design and piss poor durability, but it worked. The 7800 we had worked better, but it was just a better design. So shove it with the shit take insults.
I remember getting my atari 5200 when it came out and I was a little kid. The thought of playing an arcade game in my room was mindblowing. Now my phone is more powerful lol
I remember only being able to play this system at a department store because the system was very expensive. The whole thing seemed like it would break easily.
Even though I have not played the Atari 5200 version of Pac-Man, it looks better and it looks like it would play better than the Atari 2600 version of Pac-Man in my opinion.
TheVideoGamer64 you’re half right. If you’ve read about the Atari 5200, you’ll have heard about the poorly constructed controller that made playing games almost impossible. You wouldn’t be able to do diddily squat at all. I guess it just proves “quantity over quality”.
+armydlguy The 2600 version was indeed huge. I remember lines of people waiting to purchase out the door of the record store at the mall. I think the 2600 version was almost universally rejected as "Pac-Man" and accepted more as "Pac-Man-like". My first play of the 2600 version was bitter-sweet: At last, a 2600 Pac-Man port! Then, there came the aching desire that it could be more like Pac-Man. Still played the crap out of it, though :D
Ahhh, I had this and my 5200 for my sixth birthday in 1983. Hated it because my older brother was able to cruise through all the way to the hardest levels - mans started from Cherry and got all the way up to a *third Key* before finally losing!! 😒😒😒 (He was also a beast at Super Breakout, I had to play and play and play more until I finally got better than him at it...which was for naught cuz he only played the straight up regular Breakout stages, I played the Double stages)
The Atari 5200 has sold 1,000,000 units worldwide x $440.00 = $440,000,000.00 or XAF 258,187,600,000.00 in Central African Republic!! My favorite Atari 5200 game is Super Mario Bros with 90,000 units sold worldwide x $25.49 = $2,294,100.00 or EEK 14.14 in Estonia!!
The 7800 had a (really accurate) version of Ms Pac-Man, but they never did a shovelware port of the 5200 version of the first one. Why not, I don't know.
It looks vastly better. Unfortunately the 5200 paddle is beyond pathetic so though awful to look at, the 2600 version at least works. That 5200 controller was such a piece of crap. Rubber buttons that often stick. What genius thought of this????
Joystick issues are overrated - though they were fragile. Back in the day we easily adjusted to them even though they were far from ideal. Good gamers always do. The first time I played pac man at my buddy’s house (I’d get my 5200 a month or so later), I was at a loss with the joystick but after a few minutes we realized that the way to go for pac man was to preset the direction just before the intersection and then you were fine. For defender, dig dug, centipede, joust, football and the other games I had, it really wasn’t a big problem. The 5200 was outselling the coleco vision by the time it was discontinued and the big crash happened.
My iPhone SE, (basically identical to the iPhone 5 in size) has a 64-bit processor in it as opposed to the iP5 32-bit one, so now I await a version of Pac-Man good enough for me to want to go to the App Store to download onto my iPhone SE. But before I do that, I wil be sending my new iPhone SE to iDope in Seattle (in Ballard and also in South Lake Union, just an 50-minute drive and ferry ride from me here in Port Townsend) to get that god-awful Space Gray rear housing replaced with a similar 5S/SE version of the rear housing of my old iPhone 5, basically a custom black/slate one. And then I'll be all set.
It wasn't unplayable at first. But terrible non-centering analog joysticks with a build quality only slightly better than a house of cards means they broke early and often. We had a 5200 when I was 4, and I remember my father trying to get new controllers because the one had already broken. There's a reason it was discontinued after only a couple of years and paltry sales. The successor 7800 was so much better in many ways: more powerful graphics processor, backwards compatibility, and joysticks that didn't break just by looking at them sideways. It's two major flaws were sound and game availability. They didn't include an upgraded sound chip for cost reasons. Instead they just used the 2600's combined graphics and sound chip, which was included for backward compatibility, as the default sound chip for 7800 games as well. Game makers had the option of including Atari's POKEY sound chip in the cart, but literally only two games ever did that because of cost. (And the POKEY was plenty powerful; it's the same chip used as the sound chip in the original Gauntlet arcade machine, so the 7800 could totally have sported voices). As for game support, that was part inability to get third-party support as everyone flocked to the NES, and part that Atari's first party games were dated by the time the system saw wide release in early 1986, as they were all already two years old. (The 7800 was supposed to come out in 1984, and may have seen some test market releases in southern California, but with the sale of the home consumer business that year, there was a dispute as to who owed the console designers their payment and it was delayed as they settled the matter.)
When pacman eats the ghost that is a terrible noise. 2600 8k looks better and even sounds better! To add further insult to injury notice in the first cut scene that pacman is distorted when he turns into super pacman?? I am comparing the new 8k version over the first pacman on 2600. It was terrible!!!!
this is so much better than the 2600 version
Sure it looks better but does it play better? Especially considering that you are controlling it with the 5200's non centering analogue stick.
Well if you look at the 2600 version Pacman's head didn't even turn when going up and down the mazes. He just remained neutral. The 5200 fixed everything that was wrong which gave the 5200 a much more arcade version experience. So yes, that makes it play better.
Sanic Youth It probably plays better on the Atari 8-bit computers, which use the same program
@@ahrichards5241 there is the joystick adapter for 5200 that allowed for a self centering stick. So thatd be better than the 5200 controller forsure. But u still need the standard 5200 controller to plug it in to..
All versions are equal. I have the atari 2600 version and Id say its good, like the 5200 version.
Got the 5200 system for Christmas in 1983.. My dad would stay up until 2 or 3am playing this with us until the joysticks tore up.. good memories..
Would your father get game overs and keep restarting for awhile? Or did he get really far in just one go?
@@crystalwater505 a little of both
I like this version better than 2600. I grew up on this.
+shannonm75 I still have my cartridge from June 1983. I bought it just a month after getting my 5200 for my 17th Birthday. I still play it to this day!!!
I had the Atari 400/800 version, which was essentially the same as this but didn't have the cutscenes. (It used the 2600-style controllers, though, which was very good for this game.)
The 5200 might have been a flop, but you can’t deny the fact that this version of PAC-MAN was MUCH better than the 2600 version!
Yeah but not better than Colecovision though
@@timecapsule9701 Alright, I'll give you that one.
I have found memories of this game as it was the first Pac-Man game I ever played. My upstairs neighbor had the Atari 5200 with Pac-Man, Space Invaders, and Missile Command. Many Friday nights were spent playing those games.
Wow this looks like something I'd actually want to play unlike that shameful 2600 version.
But it was funny when pacman lose on the 2600 version
This was my childhood back in the day, along with the NES, Sega Genesis, Intellivision, SNES, etc.. But then my grandfather randomly decided to sell our Atari, Intellivision, and all of the games that went with it to his friend, Sam, even though we were STILL PLAYING IT! D:
You never had an Atari 5200, you just used this video as an opportunity to insult your grandfather who raised you when you mother wouldn't because she was on drugs
customsongmaker I swear, people like you are annoying! You have no proof of those accusations.
@@aarontillman3772 - show me some proof of a child playing Atari 5200 when they had an SNES. The 5200's controller contacts corroded and stopped working long before the SNES was released, but this person claims she was still playing it.
@@customsongmaker Hi. I did. Yeah, the 5200 barely worked because of the craptacular controller design and piss poor durability, but it worked. The 7800 we had worked better, but it was just a better design. So shove it with the shit take insults.
I got to know why he did that
I remember getting my atari 5200 when it came out and I was a little kid.
The thought of playing an arcade game in my room was mindblowing.
Now my phone is more powerful lol
We had this game miss this version
I remember being so thrilled to play this after the 2600 version was so bad.
I remember only being able to play this system at a department store because the system was very expensive. The whole thing seemed like it would break easily.
All the kids used to come to my house to play this and other games. I have Pac-Man on a Nintendo dsi but you need the joy stick to play it well
Nice video, and great gameplay! Will be including a recommendation, and a link to your video on my channel's review video Wednesday.
Even though I have not played the Atari 5200 version of Pac-Man, it looks better and it looks like it would play better than the Atari 2600 version of Pac-Man in my opinion.
TheVideoGamer64 you’re half right. If you’ve read about the Atari 5200, you’ll have heard about the poorly constructed controller that made playing games almost impossible. You wouldn’t be able to do diddily squat at all. I guess it just proves “quantity over quality”.
@@clairefraser3960 True well if you have a third party controller for it , it might help. :)
Funny when pacman lose on the 2600
This is much better than the 2600 version, although the 2600 version release was a huge deal in 1982.
+armydlguy The 2600 version was indeed huge. I remember lines of people waiting to purchase out the door of the record store at the mall. I think the 2600 version was almost universally rejected as "Pac-Man" and accepted more as "Pac-Man-like". My first play of the 2600 version was bitter-sweet: At last, a 2600 Pac-Man port! Then, there came the aching desire that it could be more like Pac-Man. Still played the crap out of it, though :D
So...I guess Inky was on a sabbatical for this version? Is that his green cousin, Grimey?
Nice video! Liked, and subscribed.
Ahhh, I had this and my 5200 for my sixth birthday in 1983. Hated it because my older brother was able to cruise through all the way to the hardest levels - mans started from Cherry and got all the way up to a *third Key* before finally losing!! 😒😒😒 (He was also a beast at Super Breakout, I had to play and play and play more until I finally got better than him at it...which was for naught cuz he only played the straight up regular Breakout stages, I played the Double stages)
This version had better sound to it in my option i think this should have been more popular!
The Atari 5200 has sold 1,000,000 units worldwide x $440.00 = $440,000,000.00 or
XAF 258,187,600,000.00 in Central African Republic!! My favorite Atari 5200 game is Super Mario Bros with 90,000 units sold worldwide x $25.49 = $2,294,100.00 or EEK 14.14 in Estonia!!
I think you mean Mario Bros, not Super Mario Bros, which didn't even exist until after the abject market failure of the 5200 was already discontinued.
Loved my 5200 until I had problems with the joysticks and could never find replacements.
Being a kid, when all the rubber came off we learned how to play without it like it was always there
2600 Pac Man released 1981
This one is 1982
They worked hard on improvements
Ghost Monsters Can Run, But They Can't Hide From Pac-Man!
You played this with the default 5200 controller, didn't you?
i agree with shannonm75 except that i have not grew up on this
have it on xbox 1. hard AF without an arcade controller
Not bad for a 5200 game
They did make this for the atari 7800!!!
That was a Homebrew version. Either that, or you have it confused with Ms. Pac-Man.
The 7800 had a (really accurate) version of Ms Pac-Man, but they never did a shovelware port of the 5200 version of the first one. Why not, I don't know.
I use to play the shit outta this game
Old. WOW
This version isn't too fuckin' bad.
INKY'S GREEN?!
I think it's about color limitation
The Atari 8 bit version is exactly the same, but doesn't contain the intermissions. I wonder why.
Atari 8 bit and 5200 had different graphics through. :(
@@NyuniTheMotacilla Really? I'll have to check again. It looks about exactly the same from memory.
It looks vastly better. Unfortunately the 5200 paddle is beyond pathetic so though awful to look at, the 2600 version at least works.
That 5200 controller was such a piece of crap. Rubber buttons that often stick. What genius thought of this????
02:51 WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO PAC-MAN?!?!!?!!?!??😱😠😡😵😣😭🙎👹
maybe a glitch, calm down bruh
Kacperski Cubing d
Why the emojis?
2:50 :(
If it weren’t for those crappy joysticks I’m sure the 5200 would’ve made it far with games like this.
Joystick issues are overrated - though they were fragile. Back in the day we easily adjusted to them even though they were far from ideal. Good gamers always do. The first time I played pac man at my buddy’s house (I’d get my 5200 a month or so later), I was at a loss with the joystick but after a few minutes we realized that the way to go for pac man was to preset the direction just before the intersection and then you were fine. For defender, dig dug, centipede, joust, football and the other games I had, it really wasn’t a big problem. The 5200 was outselling the coleco vision by the time it was discontinued and the big crash happened.
they dont even eat the ghosts for points
He doesn't chase the ghosts, but he's gotta get the fuckin' cherry for 100 and the strawberry for 300. I get it.
Unfortunately for today's smartphones the 32 bit apocalypse happened! So you cannot play an emulation like this on your smartphone as of 2017! Sad!
Can't someone convert it for the new smartphones? We landed men on the fuckin' moon!
My iPhone SE, (basically identical to the iPhone 5 in size) has a 64-bit processor in it as opposed to the iP5 32-bit one, so now I await a version of Pac-Man good enough for me to want to go to the App Store to download onto my iPhone SE.
But before I do that, I wil be sending my new iPhone SE to iDope in Seattle (in Ballard and also in South Lake Union, just an 50-minute drive and ferry ride from me here in Port Townsend) to get that god-awful Space Gray rear housing replaced with a similar 5S/SE version of the rear housing of my old iPhone 5, basically a custom black/slate one. And then I'll be all set.
The blue ghost is green. This game is horrible.
It bothers me that inky is green why is he green
I never noticed that until now. I guess teal was not in the color palette.
How is someone able to play this on a console that's been considered unplayable.
supermariofan03 Have you ever played on one?
AVGN gave this console a bad reputation.
@@Theshark15z
ONLY AVGN.
It wasn't unplayable at first. But terrible non-centering analog joysticks with a build quality only slightly better than a house of cards means they broke early and often. We had a 5200 when I was 4, and I remember my father trying to get new controllers because the one had already broken. There's a reason it was discontinued after only a couple of years and paltry sales.
The successor 7800 was so much better in many ways: more powerful graphics processor, backwards compatibility, and joysticks that didn't break just by looking at them sideways. It's two major flaws were sound and game availability.
They didn't include an upgraded sound chip for cost reasons. Instead they just used the 2600's combined graphics and sound chip, which was included for backward compatibility, as the default sound chip for 7800 games as well. Game makers had the option of including Atari's POKEY sound chip in the cart, but literally only two games ever did that because of cost. (And the POKEY was plenty powerful; it's the same chip used as the sound chip in the original Gauntlet arcade machine, so the 7800 could totally have sported voices).
As for game support, that was part inability to get third-party support as everyone flocked to the NES, and part that Atari's first party games were dated by the time the system saw wide release in early 1986, as they were all already two years old. (The 7800 was supposed to come out in 1984, and may have seen some test market releases in southern California, but with the sale of the home consumer business that year, there was a dispute as to who owed the console designers their payment and it was delayed as they settled the matter.)
Because this console isn't unplayable
It’s better than the 7800
Yknow Pac - Man on the Atari 5200 version is much superior than the 2600 version........BUT I SAY BOTH OF THEM ARE AWSOME
2600 version was funny when pacman lose
When pacman eats the ghost that is a terrible noise. 2600 8k looks better and even sounds better! To add further insult to injury notice in the first cut scene that pacman is distorted when he turns into super pacman?? I am comparing the new 8k version over the first pacman on 2600. It was terrible!!!!
i actually like the sound when u chomp a monster in this game
al menos este es mejor que esa caca de atari 2600
It was funny when pacman lose on the 2600