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Arcade Archives: Pac & Pal

2022 · PlayStation 4 · Nintendo Switch · Arcade

About this game

"Pac & Pal" is an action game released in 1983. Turn over cards and eat fruit and special targets to earn score points. Eat special targets to temporarily freeze enemies, and attack them. The new character MIL will pick up fruit and cards, so touch her to get them back.

Pac & Pal is an arcade game that was released by Namco on July 30, 1983 exclusively in Japan. It runs on Namco Super Pac-Man hardware, and the object of the game is for Pac-Man to eat all the items before he is caught by the ghosts. Most of the items are fruits from the original Pac-Man game, with a few new additions. Their value varies, starting with cherries at 50 points, and ending with keys from 700 to 5000 points. The items had to first be unlocked by turning over cards distributed around the maze (instead of eating keys like in Super Pac-Man). Very few cabinets still exist today, and this is possibly one of the rarest Pac-Man titles to find in playable format outside Japan.