Crossy Road Developer Releases Pac-Man 256

“We were super excited the day Daisuke and the team at BANDAI NAMCO invited us to work on PAC-MAN”. If you like Crossy Road, you’ll love this because it’s from the same creators who were tapped by Bandai Namco. It caused glitches in graphics and gameplay that, in essence, made that level and the game unbeatable. Playing can also unlock special abilities, like a laser that toasts ghosts or the ability to freeze them. Because it’s unlike any Pac-Man game you’ve ever played. Now those glitches have become a single entity and Pac-Man must run for dear life. Or that eating pac-dots uninterrupted makes you go faster, incentivizing (or, you could argue, luring) you to take more hazardous routes. With Pac-Man 256, Hipster Whale has basically taken that retro-futura shtick and glossed it onto Toru Iwatani’s 1980 arcade masterpiece. Occasionally they’ll appear in a line or emerge from a glitch cloud. Spunky, one of the newcomers, hovers in place, snoozing until you’re forced to get close. These bonus powers can be invaluable when the game gets really tough, so use them wisely.

Pac-Man automatically moves through an endless maze in Pac-Man 256. Eventually you’ll be tearing around the map while dodging hordes of ghosts, and if you can eat 256 pellets in a row without stopping, you’ll trigger an explosion that destroys nearby ghosts.

Fans interested in a new “Pac-Man” mobile game or an alternative to “Crossy Road” can pick up “Pac-Man 256” right now for free. You get play credits every 10 minutes, but even if you run out, you can still play, just without using power-ups.

Alternatively you can pay 79p for 12 credits or £5.99 to remove the need for credits altogether.

Mobile gamers also have the option to buy this game outright, removing all Free To Play elements.

Pac-Man 256 is an easy one to recommend, whether you’re looking for a short-term time-waster for your commute or a new leaderboard-chase over which to obsess.