This game is impressive. It's always been one of my favorites on the Atari 2600. The different music played at the beginning of each stage is a nice treat.
The Jr. Pac-Man cartridge included the so-called SARA chip that added an additional 128 bytes of RAM (doubling the memory to 256 bytes 😆) and 16K of ROM code via bank switching. An impressive expansion for a console designed to play Pong, Breakout and Combat. 🙂
I spent many a quarter on the arcade version in a lil private owned pizza place when I was around 6-8 years old. That place had the best buffalo wings. Pub's Pizza. I miss it..
DogSi Notpalc Nah, no prob. I'm not a modern gamer, lol. I'm a bit weary about putting in a comment about the 80s arcades though. Like when cabinates had ash trays on them and you could rally up a crowd if you wear good enough.
When I was 4 to 6 years old. My older brothers had an atari 2600. Every night me and my brothers would try to beat each others score. This game was a blast when I was growing up
Jr was an amazing technical achievement on the 2600, but I liked Ms. Pac-Man better. Jr. Pac-Man was, for the time, very true to the arcade game, but sadly that also included the arcade game's brutal difficulty. Ms. Pac-Man ramped up more slowly.
What's with the bad aspect ratio, wrong sound effects on the moving prize items, and weird graphical glitch of Jr. leaving the maze halfway when he runs up and down a leftmost path?
A lot had improved after the ill-fated Pac-Man and the better Ms. Pac-Man, Jr. Pac-Man was the better game of the three despite the limitations of the 2600.
@@ClassicTVMan1981X Jr Pacman was the pack-in game for my "The Fun is Back!" $50 2600 jr. which is weirdly fitting. It looks like 1983 - 1984 is when 2600 games were maturing but at the same time there's the crash. 1986 looks like a "Ok we need to pick up the pieces of what's left" - similar story with the 7800 - manufactured in 1984 and sitting in warehouses until 1986
Looks 100x better than regular Pacman 2600. Dumb that Atari made regular Pacman lame as hell, even the sound effects, and Ms & Jr are much better, something that could be played more than a couple minutes.
If you beat the green level it plays an ending song which is 3X longer than the other jingles. Then it goes to a very hard gold level. I only know because each time you hit the game select switch 4 times it skips to the next level. That way I can start on green.
Este es un juegazo, y una digna continuación de una franquicia legendaria como es Pac-Man! Ya que, aparte de tener grandes y variados laberintos, estos se desplazan en vertical, haciendo más compleja la jugabilidad. Es extraordinario como pudieron hacerlo en la consola Atari 2600... Saludos cordiales!
@jon hartman Yes, the version they released did look like it was done in a hurry lol. However, I bought a second hand Atari some years ago, and had some fun playing Pacman nevertheless :-)
There was no excuse for the shoddy Pac-man game on 2600. Well except for the corporate greed the nearly killed the industry in 1983 and still inspires utter sh*te games to this day.
It's like every system had at least one version of Pac-Man. Check out the Amiga, LOADS of Pac-Man clones (upped 5 to my channel recently). Maybe 30+ exist, and most of them are crap.
stufaman Drip? Doesn't seem to be a Pac-Man clone at all www.lemonamiga.com/?game_id=2283 I've recorded 6 so far of the ones I think is pretty decent (except the first one where he picks up ACID pills, just did it for a goof). I've looked thought most Pac-Man clones on the Amiga. Do you have any recommendations for a longplay?
***** I always saw Drip as a sort of Pac Man hybrid. Instead of emptying a maze, you're filling it in. You still have to traverse the whole level. There's all sorts of enemies and hazards. Have you tried the game? You'll see what I mean. You know, I can't remember that many Pac-Man style titles from back then. I remember playing them, just not the names. It was the late 80s, early 90s. It was in the frame of mind of finding the new, revolutionary type game. Nostalgia was young then, lol. What was that horrible one that turned up on every combo disk? Bounder or something. He bounced around a brick style maze and painfully split in two when he died. It was cheap, but it had an appeal.
I can barely get pass the 1st maze without dying at least once, same goes to the arcade version. while i don't think this game is bad, i do think it's a little too difficult for it's own good.
@@AandNvg I'm sorry but that's just something i don't like doing. i always like to challenge myself, otherwise, i might get bored fairly quickly but that's just me.
I remember when we used to play this one on our Atari, we always played it with one 👻 because we figured we didn't dare try to play it with many more than that if we wanted to win.
I had no idea they had jr pac on the 2600! I was so disappointed in the pacman rendition from the arcade version I was begging to get the nes from my parents 😂
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This game is impressive. It's always been one of my favorites on the Atari 2600. The different music played at the beginning of each stage is a nice treat.
The Jr. Pac-Man cartridge included the so-called SARA chip that added an additional 128 bytes of RAM (doubling the memory to 256 bytes 😆) and 16K of ROM code via bank switching. An impressive expansion for a console designed to play Pong, Breakout and Combat. 🙂
Cool. Thanks for that info. Jr Pac-Man was a few steps above the typical 2600 game and I guess that's why.
I remember playing this for hours on end when I was 8 in my living room. I always wanted to see the other colors of the other maps.
that's all there was to look forward too on this brutal version 😅
I spent many a quarter on the arcade version in a lil private owned pizza place when I was around 6-8 years old. That place had the best buffalo wings. Pub's Pizza. I miss it..
Oh come on, it's just nostalgia. It just reminds us of the old days.
DogSi Notpalc Nah, no prob. I'm not a modern gamer, lol.
I'm a bit weary about putting in a comment about the 80s arcades though.
Like when cabinates had ash trays on them and you could rally up a crowd if you wear good enough.
Best Pac-Man game on the VCS!
"It's just like Pacman, only this time actually finished! Hooray!"
When I was 4 to 6 years old. My older brothers had an atari 2600. Every night me and my brothers would try to beat each others score. This game was a blast when I was growing up
Original aspect ratio should be mandatory for this channel.
Fun fact: the different music that plays in every stage is the Cutscene music found in the Arcade original
0:56 the bicycle is farting as it moves lol
Jr was an amazing technical achievement on the 2600, but I liked Ms. Pac-Man better. Jr. Pac-Man was, for the time, very true to the arcade game, but sadly that also included the arcade game's brutal difficulty. Ms. Pac-Man ramped up more slowly.
What's with the bad aspect ratio, wrong sound effects on the moving prize items, and weird graphical glitch of Jr. leaving the maze halfway when he runs up and down a leftmost path?
This is a gamer who has spent ALOT of time on this game! Bravo! I can’t get through maze 1
A lot had improved after the ill-fated Pac-Man and the better Ms. Pac-Man, Jr. Pac-Man was the better game of the three despite the limitations of the 2600.
Robert Lopresti this is a LATE generation 2600 game from 1988 with expanded rom size. Advanced quite a bit beyond the 1982 game
@@johnsimon8457 o I didn't know there is different version of it .I think I have a lateish 80s version .
@@simonp7095 There is only 1 version of Jr Pac-Man for the 2600. This isn't an "expanded" version of Todd Frye's Pac-Man.
@@johnsimon8457 Released in October 1986, but was initially slated to be out in 1984 before Jack Tramiel's takeover of Atari.
@@ClassicTVMan1981X Jr Pacman was the pack-in game for my "The Fun is Back!" $50 2600 jr. which is weirdly fitting.
It looks like 1983 - 1984 is when 2600 games were maturing but at the same time there's the crash.
1986 looks like a "Ok we need to pick up the pieces of what's left" - similar story with the 7800 - manufactured in 1984 and sitting in warehouses until 1986
Looks 100x better than regular Pacman 2600. Dumb that Atari made regular Pacman lame as hell, even the sound effects, and Ms & Jr are much better, something that could be played more than a couple minutes.
If you beat the green level it plays an ending song which is 3X longer than the other jingles. Then it goes to a very hard gold level.
I only know because each time you hit the game select switch 4 times it skips to the next level. That way I can start on green.
The moment when Ms and Jr have better Atari ports than Pac-Man himself
There's a homebrew Pac-Man which is rather good.
0:08 that sounds surprisingly well for the 2600
I know this wasn’t a Namco game but this will always be my favourite
Released for the reintroduction of the 2600 in 1986/87.
Correct, but it was programmed in 1984 and thus was supposed to have been released that year, before Jack Tramiel did you know what...
I love this game. For anyone who thinks Atari games are easy than good luck getting to level 2 or 3 without using the easy settings with less ghosts.
Este es un juegazo, y una digna continuación de una franquicia legendaria como es Pac-Man! Ya que, aparte de tener grandes y variados laberintos, estos se desplazan en vertical, haciendo más compleja la jugabilidad. Es extraordinario como pudieron hacerlo en la consola Atari 2600... Saludos cordiales!
Bikes aren't edible.
to hell they are! i ate mine easily!
This is pretty good. Why didn't they make the original 2600 Pacman like this?
@jon hartman Yes, the version they released did look like it was done in a hurry lol. However, I bought a second hand Atari some years ago, and had some fun playing Pacman nevertheless :-)
I kind of want to get out my atari 2600 and have a game now .
I didn't even know this was a thing.
Which version is harder? Arcade or Atari VCS?
No. I really didn't think that there was the Atari 2600's version of Pac-Man Jr.
the whole family of Pacman lol...
There was no excuse for the shoddy Pac-man game on 2600. Well except for the corporate greed the nearly killed the industry in 1983 and still inspires utter sh*te games to this day.
It's like every system had at least one version of Pac-Man. Check out the Amiga, LOADS of Pac-Man clones (upped 5 to my channel recently). Maybe 30+ exist, and most of them are crap.
***** I had an Amiga and I remember all the clones. Remember those PD games?
Although I do remember 'Drip' being a good one.
stufaman Drip? Doesn't seem to be a Pac-Man clone at all www.lemonamiga.com/?game_id=2283
I've recorded 6 so far of the ones I think is pretty decent (except the first one where he picks up ACID pills, just did it for a goof).
I've looked thought most Pac-Man clones on the Amiga. Do you have any recommendations for a longplay?
***** I always saw Drip as a sort of Pac Man hybrid. Instead of emptying a maze, you're filling it in. You still have to traverse the whole level. There's all sorts of enemies and hazards.
Have you tried the game?
You'll see what I mean.
You know, I can't remember that many Pac-Man style titles from back then. I remember playing them, just not the names.
It was the late 80s, early 90s. It was in the frame of mind of finding the new, revolutionary type game. Nostalgia was young then, lol.
What was that horrible one that turned up on every combo disk?
Bounder or something. He bounced around a brick style maze and painfully split in two when he died. It was cheap, but it had an appeal.
Why isnt there another krash? I mean lootboxes and unfinished AAA games are here
I can barely get pass the 1st maze without dying at least once, same goes to the arcade version. while i don't think this game is bad, i do think it's a little too difficult for it's own good.
Play the game on another game variation then. There is an easy variation.
@@AandNvg I'm sorry but that's just something i don't like doing. i always like to challenge myself, otherwise, i might get bored fairly quickly but that's just me.
They even got the tune right.
I notice it scrolls smoother than the 5200.
5200 port is a homebrew and unreleased.
@@SpeedLimitTheGeococcyx 5200 wasn't a homebrew, just unreleased.
Yep yep yep yep yep yep yep yep yep yep yep
still eating blocks instead of dots, but it is better than the first one.
I never played that one.
It's too fast for me :)
I remember when we used to play this one on our Atari, we always played it with one 👻 because we figured we didn't dare try to play it with many more than that if we wanted to win.
Compared to the arcade, this game blows
My score today is 40,200
This isnt bad
Play 'joust'
I'm playing that!
this game is better than pacman
One of the best Atari 2600 games.
*Eww-eww-eww-ew-ew!
I had no idea they had jr pac on the 2600! I was so disappointed in the pacman rendition from the arcade version I was begging to get the nes from my parents 😂
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