Pac-Man

Pac-Man is a maze action video game for arcades. Players control Pac-Man, who must eat all the dots inside an enclosed maze while avoiding four colored ghosts. Eating large flashing dots called Power Pellets causes the ghosts to temporarily turn blue, allowing Pac-Man to eat them for bonus points. The four ghosts are Blinky, Pinky, Inky and Clyde, and each one chases Pac-Man in its own pattern. The player moves with a four-way joystick and has no attack button. Touching a ghost that is not blue costs one life. Eating a dot slows Pac-Man for a moment, and the tunnel on each side of the maze lets him cross to the other edge, where the ghosts move more slowly. When the player clears every dot, the next round starts with faster ghosts and shorter periods in which they stay blue. Fruit appears below the ghost house for extra points and shows the level reached. Between some rounds, short animated scenes called intermissions are shown. The game is a score chase with no ending, and the goal is a higher score.