This game, Pac-Man, is good, but it just doesn't feel right when you buy your copy for $20. It deserves to be in some sort of collction, and not a stand alone, as it was as early as the arcade era, and shoouldn't cost more than 5 dollars at this day and age. The fact is, Pac-Man for the NES wasn't a classic game.

To play, you are a yellow ball, and you have to gobble up all the dots in the maze while avoiding the ghosts, who start out in the box (Ghost Home) in the middle of the maze. In 4 corners there are power pellets. Eat them to make the ghosts run away from you and turn blue. You can eat them to get some good points, and then the reamining eyes of the ghost(s) go back to the ghost shelter to be regenerated. Occasionally there will be some fruit under the ghost pen. You can munch them for some bonus points. As the levels go on, the fruit is worth more. Speaking of which, all the levels are the same. So as soon as you eat the last dots, the maze refills.

One thing that changed that I liked was that the lines are now solid light blue so you can see them easier. On this game you can only see a scrolling view, but that's fine,l because it shows a little more than 1/2 the maze at a time. The score board is now at the sides of the maze, also. Now one thing I don't like is that all the ghosts and Pac-man are much bigger than the actual maze lines of the game, making it look very sloppily done.

This game is just missing the feeling of quality and care. Clearly Nintendo took this game straight from the NES and portedit onto the GBA. Don't buy this game, and don't feed them they're easily earned money by supporting they're cruddy ports. Only get the good ones. So what's the final verdict? Get Pac-Man Collection, it's really cheap, includes this game + 3 others, and they're all in their original, arcade form.

DO NOT GET THIS GAME! It is majorly wasting some good money. Don't get me wrong. I like Pac Man a lot. Guess what? They are selling it for 20 dollars (15 now). Guess how much it should cost? 1 dollar. Pac Man is a very good game, but get it only if you are a die hard fan. There are no special features or anything. Just regular old Pac Man. Everyone knows how to play right? Good. But get Pac Man Collection, that is probably 10 dollars, and it has that game plus more. In all, a fun game, but at a nasty price. Never have I seen such a trick company. A whopping price for a repeptive game.