Pac-Man 256

pac man 256 finally got it right. pac man 257 is going to be an instant classic imo

In Pac-Man 256 you find yourself in an infinite maze with the pressure of a glitch in the matrix that destroys everything,
it won't make much difference whether our yellow pill taker takes a red or a blue pill, as long as it's in the direction away from the glitch all is safe and sound.
It is also possible to play locally with a friend and see who can get the furthest.
You can check out Pac-Man 256 gameplay here:
The game also has good support for ultra-wide resolutions although I don't think it brings much of an advantage to the gameplay of this game,
you can see an example of gameplay at 3840*1080 resolution here:

Pac-Man 256? But what happened to Pac-Man 2 and Pac-Man 3 and Pac-Man 4 and Pac-Man 5 and Pac-Man 6 and Pac-Man 7 and Pac-Man 8 and Pac-Man 9 and Pac-Man 10 and Pac-Man 11 and Pac-Man 12 and Pac-Man 13 and Pac-Man 14 and Pac-Man 15 and Pac-Man 16 and Pac-Man 17 and Pac-Man 18 and Pac-Man 19 and Pac-Man 20 and Pac-Man 21 and Pac-Man 22 and Pac-Man 23 and Pac-Man 24 and Pac-Man 25 and Pac-Man 26 and Pac-Man 27 and Pac-Man 28 and Pac-Man 29 and Pac-Man 30 and Pac-Man 31 and Pac-Man 32 and Pac-Man 33 and Pac-Man 31 and Pac-Man 32 and Pac-Man 33 and Pac-Man 44 and Pac-Man 45 and Pac-Man 46 and Pac-Man 47 and Pac-Man 48 and Pac-Man 49 and Pac-Man 50 and Pac-Man 51 and Pac-Man 52 and Pac-Man 53 and Pac-Man 54 and Pac-Man 55 and Pac-Man 56 and Pac-Man 57 and Pac-Man 58 and Pac-Man 59 and Pac-Man 60 and Pac-Man 61 and Pac-Man 62 and Pac-Man 63 and Pac-Man 64 and Pac-Man 65 and Pac-Man 66 and Pac-Man 67 and Pac-Man 68 and Pac-Man 69 and Pac-Man 70 and Pac-Man 71 and Pac-Man 72 and Pac-Man 73 and Pac-Man 74 and Pac-Man 75 and Pac-Man 76 and Pac-Man 77 and Pac-Man 78 and Pac-Man 79 and Pac-Man 80 and Pac-Man 81 and Pac-Man 82 and Pac-Man 83 and Pac-Man 84 and Pac-Man 85 and Pac-Man 86 and Pac-Man 87 and Pac-Man 88 and Pac-Man 89 and Pac-Man 90 and Pac-Man 91 and Pac-Man 92 and Pac-Man 93 and Pac-Man 94 and Pac-Man 95 and Pac-Man 96 and Pac-Man 97 and Pac-Man 98 and Pac-Man 99 and Pac-Man 100 and Pac-Man 101 and Pac-Man 102 and Pac-Man 103 and Pac-Man 104 and Pac-Man 105 and Pac-Man 106 and Pac-Man 107 and Pac-Man 108 and Pac-Man 109 and Pac-Man 110 and Pac-Man 112 and Pac-Man 113 and Pac-Man 114 and Pac-Man 115 and Pac-Man 116 and Pac-Man 117 and Pac-Man 118 and Pac-Man 119 and Pac-Man 120 and Pac-Man 121 and Pac-Man 121 and Pac-Man 123 and Pac-Man 124 and Pac-Man 125 and Pac-Man 126 and Pac-Man 127 and Pac-Man 128 and Pac-Man 129 and Pac-Man 130 and Pac-Man 131 and Pac-Man 132 and Pac-Man 133 and Pac-Man 134 and Pac-Man 135 and Pac-Man 136 and Pac-Man 137 and Pac-Man 138 and Pac-Man 139 and Pac-Man 140 and Pac-Man 141 and Pac-Man 142 and Pac-Man 143 and Pac-Man 144 and Pac-Man 145 and Pac-Man 146 and Pac-Man 147 and Pac-Man 148 and Pac-Man 149 and Pac-Man 150 and Pac-Man 151 and Pac-Man 152 and Pac-Man 153 and Pac-Man 154 and Pac-Man 155 and Pac-Man 156 and Pac-Man 157 and Pac-Man 158 and Pac-Man 159 and Pac-Man 160 and Pac-Man 161 and Pac-Man 162 and Pac-Man 163 and Pac-Man 164 and Pac-Man 165 and Pac-Man 166 and Pac-Man 167 and Pac-Man 168 and Pac-Man 169 and Pac-Man 170 and Pac-Man 171 and Pac-Man 172 and Pac-Man 173 and Pac-Man 174 and Pac-Man 175 and Pac-Man 176 and Pac-Man 177 and Pac-Man 178 and Pac-Man 179 and Pac-Man 180 and Pac-Man 181 and Pac-Man 182 and Pac-Man 183 and Pac-Man 184 and Pac-Man 185 and Pac-Man 186 and Pac-Man 187 and Pac-Man 188 and Pac-Man 189 and Pac-Man 190 and Pac-Man 191 and Pac-Man 192 and Pac-Man 193 and Pac-Man 194 and Pac-Man 195 and Pac-Man 196 and Pac-Man 197 and Pac-Man 198 and Pac-Man 199 and Pac-Man 200 and Pac-Man 201 and Pac-Man 202 and Pac-Man 203 and Pac-Man 204 and Pac-Man 205 and Pac-Man 206 and Pac-Man 207 and Pac-Man 208 and Pac-Man 209 and Pac-Man 210 and Pac-Man 211 and Pac-Man 212 and Pac-Man 213 and Pac-Man 214 and Pac-Man 215 and Pac-Man 216 and Pac-Man 217 and Pac-Man 218 and Pac-Man 219 and Pac-Man 220 and Pac-Man 221 and Pac-Man 222 and Pac-Man 223 and Pac-Man 224 and Pac-Man 225 and Pac-Man 226 and Pac-Man 227 and Pac-Man 228 and Pac-Man 229 and Pac-Man 230 and Pac-Man 231 and Pac-Man 232 and Pac-Man 233 and Pac-Man 234 and Pac-Man 235 and Pac-Man 236 and Pac-Man 237 and Pac-Man 238 and Pac-Man 239 and Pac-Man 240 and Pac-Man 241 and Pac-Man 242 and Pac-Man 243 and Pac-Man 244 and Pac-Man 245 and Pac-Man 246 and Pac-Man 247 and Pac-Man 248 and Pac-Man 249 and Pac-Man 250 and Pac-Man 251 and Pac-Man 252 and Pac-Man 253 and Pac-Man 254 and Pac-Man 255?

If there's a video game basically everyone has heard of, that's probably Pac-Man. A very simple game released as an arcade back in 1980, where a little yellow fellow eats dots in a maze for seemingly no apparent reason, while carefully avoiding ghosts. PAC-MAN 256 is a resurrection of the classic game, taking over everything the original had, but also featuring some major differences, making the rather dated gameplay somewhat more interesting.
Here, compared to the original, there are several changes in the concept. The most important one is that there are no individual levels anymore, where eating all dots is the key to progress to the next one. Instead of levels, there's just one endless area here, where we are forced to move upwards before the void (or glitch - a reference to the original game) consumes us. To make our job harder, there are various types of ghosts around that will immediately kill us upon contact. Each different coloured ghost has different behaviour and movement pattern: for example the blue ones move around in pre-defined circles while the red one home in on us.
Other than evading these ghosts, we can also kill them, after collecting "power pellets" (large dots) and use various power-ups (such as tornadoes or stealth). We can equip 3 of these at a time and there are 21 of these alltogether, each with 8 different levels, slightly increasing their duration. Coins are required to unlock and purchase these upgrades. We can earn money through objectives (the amount is random), which the game constantly throws at us, but we can also pick up packs of coins (yellow token - 4 coints, orange token - 10 coins). The various collectable fruits have nothing to do with money, they only add multipliers to our received score.
The game can also be played co-operatively, naturally it's much more fun this way.
The graphics are functional, but that's OK, since the game doesn't require more really (+ it takes less than a 100 MB of disk space). As a matter of fact there are several themes/visual styles we can play the game with, which adds some variety, like the retro '80s or my favourite one where we play as a chicken avoiding cars :)
The sound effects repertoire consists of the usual "pew-pew" sounds, where I think they could have thrown in something extra.
Well, there's really not a lot more to say (/write about): it's a redesigned version of Pac-Man for PC with all the features this game ever required. I can understand however that fans of the original game won't like the infinite scrolling concept.
PROS
+ it's Pac-Man :)
+ plenty of power-ups
+ different themes
CONS
- the amount of received money is way too luck dependent
- fans of the original may not like the endless level setup
RATING
6.5/10

2 player pac-man saved my marriage

Simple classic arcade game, Very fun and highly addictive, Definitely recommend getting this, It's awesome

Not a review, just a recommendation.