A historical tribute to various games of the 80s and 90s; installed as an Easter Egg on the Tari Labs website (https://tari.com/pacman)
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License Version 3 as published by the Free Software Foundation.
You can play the game on all canvas-enabled browsers. Touch controls are enabled for mobile browsers. The game is resolution-independent and smoothly scales to fit the size of any screen. Performance may increase by shrinking the window or zooming in with your browser.
- swipe: steer pacman on mobile browsers
- arrows: steer pacman
- end: pause the game
- escape: open in-game menu
Thanks to Shaun Williams for the wonderful implementation.
Thanks to Jamey Pittman for compiling The Pac-Man Dossier from his own research and those of other reverse-engineers, notably 'Dav' and 'JamieVegas' from this Atari Age forum thread. Further thanks to Jamey Pittman for replying to my arcade implementation-specific questions with some very elaborate details to meet the accuracy requirements of this project.
Thanks to Bart Grantham for sharing his expert knowledge on Ms. Pac-Man's internals, providing me with an annotated disassembly and notes on how fruit paths work in meticulous detail.