Namco's Arcade Games Look So Much Better in Japan!
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- Опубликовано: 22 апр 2022
- In this video, Lane goes over some upright arcade cabinets of Namco's games. Comparing the more iconic US releases to their Japanese counterparts.
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What I don’t like about the American Pac-Man art is that it essentially spawned this negative stigma over Pac-Man having limbs, when he’s had them since the beginning.
I 100% agree with you.
Me too!
@@KingLaneCreationsI’m genuinely proud of you for not playing the Atari 2600 version of the game, besides the artwork that Midway created, the Atari version of the game looks even worse.
Actually, I have played the Atari 2600 version of Pac-Man. As a Pac-Man port, it's not that great in the slightest. Guess you're not proud of me anymore now knowing the truth, but that's okay.
Like bro pac man with out his arms and his look in the side art he looks like Q Bert with out his big mouth.
The Mappy U.S. cabinet is very unique, I like it!
I'm happy to finally learn who the illustrator of the Japanese Pac-Man cabinet art is! I really like that style growing up and took some inspiration from it for a comic book I'm making. I already have the first issue out for it on my website if you're curious about the project.
This is really my thought but I think the main reason Namco still uses the US artwork for Pac-Man merchandise is yes while it's still ugly and not close to the original Japanese artwork it's very rememberable to Americans and iconic to them as well since that's what they saw back in the 80s. Let's also not forget that Pac-Man's success really came from US arcade sales since that's where it really exploded success. So really the main reason they keep it is for nostalgia's sake among those who remember it the most.
I love how they didn’t bother trying to make a new bezel for Super Pac-Man, they just recycled puck-man’s bezel and call it a day lol.
A local pizzeria used to have an original U.S. Pac Man cabinet. I remember staring at the artwork, specifically what was supposed to be Pac Man and just trying to wrap my brain around how it resembled the character in any way.
Pac-Man Museum+ took a damn good step in the right direction with recreations of the bezels on the American cabinets (namely for Pac-Man, Super Pac-Man, Pac-Land and Pac-Mania but also Namco Classic Collection Vol. 2 was nice), and that's a step towards them recreating the Japanese bezels sometime in the future as well, please GOD let that happen soon.
Thanks for showing me this.
Hey lane where did you get that japanese bosconian arcade cabinet artwork picture from cause i would like to have one.
I like the US design. It's more iconic IMO 🤷 The Japanese version has a cheap white with way too much going on. I prefer what US got, it's simple, iconic, and timeless just like the game itself!
I'd like to apologize in advance for having different opinions about the designs lol. While the Japan Pac-Man cabinet design looks great, I also really like the US design, it's just so weird looking it's got it's own charm to it I think. It kind of grew on me after playing Pac-Man on my ipod nano, and I have a US Pac-Man cabinet that I absolutely love as a grail for my collection. Though I do agree that the US character design doesn't lend itself to a lot of poses. Fun fact, I used to think this was the original Pac-Man as a kid lol. I totally get the love for the unified look of the Japan cabinets, but I also love the US cabinets. I guess I just like the variety of cabinet shapes and some of the more wacky designs like Mappy's. I'm actually wanting to make a cabaret based on the US design using my childhood Ms. Pac-Man plug n' play, don't hurt me lol. Actually, I'm also trying to make cabarets based on Rally X and Super Pac-Man, using the Pac-Man and Super Pac-Man plug-n-plays respectively. I think I'm going to stick with the US art for Super Pac I modified for a cabaret size, and I'd like to recreate the japanese bezel for Rally X if I can even find a good reference for it lmao.
What's the animation of Diglesss d. Douglas at 7:20 from?
This clip was from an episode of a short lived web series starring Mappy. It was created by ShiftyLook (a now-defunct subsidiary of Bandai Namco). I highly recommend you watch all 13 episodes of this Mappy show.
@@KingLaneCreations ok thanks for answering my question 🙂👍
Actually his real name is taizo Hori
7:20 Where is this clip from?
It still highly amuses me that in terms of the localization of Pac-Man in terms of the artwork that's on the sides of
The arcade machine
The fact that in Japan Pac-Man's design Closely resembles
Would we would eventually get in terms of some of the later games especially during the Pac-Man world era of the franchise the fact that the US cabinets design of the titular hero looks nothing like how he does in the game makes me wonder why they didn't just use a modified version of his Japanese design but make it more look like what he would eventually end up looking like in terms of his design in the later Games
Please make more namco content please🙏🙏🙏🙏
Thats a matter of opinion. I wouldnt want anything different in my experience at arcades in the late 70s and 80s.
I think the release date of this video's sequel is going to be March 25th
I'd guess the blue ghost is a frightened ghost
my favorite Japanese artwork is galaga and pac man and the U.S. is galaxian, tank battalion and mappy
OH MY GOSH YOU LOVE MY COMMET THANKS!!!!!!!!
14:11 why you call inky on blinky ?
Its probably because hes blue
I like the US version more
Wow!
Puck-Man, more like Fu- Nope!
We are not going to say that to Namco
There are fans of the Japanese cabinets, but the good smile toys sucks compared to looking at the numskull arcade toys which to me defeats the purpose of the whole thing. Don't own either because of low money, but besides the sometimes better art for pac-man jp compared to us, the toys are a different level.
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Thing Japan
Also you forgot to mention that when pac man came to the United States they changed his name from puck man to pac man because arcades where worried that immature teens might scratch out the P and make it an F
I'm pretty sure most people already knew about this fact.
0:38 and absolutely nothing has changed......
Sorry for my rude comment, don’t know what I was thinking.
The us namco arts are good but some parts or meh or kind of
But the one that makes me angry is the midway art i mean why they could just use the same art put yellow more pacman japanese art and call it pacman but making pacman as a Q*bert freak dosent have to be pacman the japanese art is better speaking of japanese art if ms pacman and jr pacman were Linceses in Japan
I bet they change the us art to the pacman japanese style of art well we kind of have a japanese art of ms pacman only in a namco musuem collection but we want a japanese art of these two games
To say all this they never use the word Puck-man because they will use the letter F yet I agree that the US design should be like the Japanese design but instead of Puck-man they should use Pac-Man and not have this hideous design that Pac-Man looks like a blob and they the ghost looks weird looking.
There are 1/12 size models of the original Japanese designs that you can buy, but with "Puck" changed to "Pac" of course.
Digless D Douglas Taizo Hori Dig Dug
6:38 i love pictures like that
I’m even an inflation artist, i find some of them (including that one of babs bunny) adorable
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I HATE playing galatians because it's so slow and you can only have 1 bullet on screen at a time
no offense but you have the wrong opinions
None taken
I would agree I like the us ones
"Wrong opinions" huh? While I agree that the US version is better, saying they have the "Wrong opinions" is ridiculous.
@@TwiMil2008 The wrong opinion thing is kinda a joke 😅 there are no wrong opinions but the japanese ones look bland imo
I think I prefer the us versions the white is ugly and cheap looking the Japanese versions have too much going on it’s ugly
I find that Japanese border distracting and annoying
USA’s Galaxian cab is FAR more impressive looking and artistic than the one from Japan. You got that one WAY wrong, my friend
Don’t even get me started on how blind you are when it comes to the PacMan cabs. USA all the way! A true artist sees that the Japan artwork is completely crammed and nowhere near as interesting as the USA PacMan
To me, the Galaxian marquee on the Japanese version gives me a sense of deep space with that darker shade of green on the title and the entirety of the marquee covered in a dark background. Playing the Namco Museum games on the PS1 gave me the appreciation and context for their charm.