Pac-Man (NES)

Pac-Man
Developer: Namco Publishers: Namco (JP/1993 AU/1993 US), Tengen (1988 US), HES (1990 AU), Nintendo (EU) Platforms: NES, Unlicensed NES, Famicom Disk System Released in JP: November 2, 1984 (Famicom), May 18, 1990 (FDS) Released in US: October 11, 1988 (Tengen, Licensed), 1989 (Tengen, Unlicensed), November 19, 1993 (Namco) Released in EU: December 23, 1993 (Namco) Released in AU: May 22, 1990 (HES), June 19, 1993 (Namco) This game has hidden developer credits. This game has revisional differences.

The NES Pac-Man is a port of the revolutionary arcade game about eating.

Developer Credits

Namco games often contain some generic copyright and/or credits text at the very beginning of their ROMs. This one contains the following text:

Versions	Text
Japan / Tengen Versions	COPY RIGHT 1984 1980 NAMCO LTD. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
US / European Versions	COPY RIGHT 1984 1993 NAMCO LTD. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

Additionally, the name "HIROKI AOYAGI" is loaded into RAM at address $52, in order to distinguish between soft and hard resets (the high score is retained after a soft reset).

Revisional Differences

The Japanese release has two revisions.

Rev0	Rev1

The "CHRACTER" spelling was fixed.

The only other change in the ROM is one byte to move a block of data from RAM $0625 to $0620 for some reason. Not certain what it actually does, but it seems to be sound-related.