Not to be confused with a similarly titled but whole different game that appeared in Namco Museum Battle Collection

Namco Museum Battle Collection

Namco Museum Battle Collection is a collection of Namco arcade games such as Dig Dug, Pac-Man and Galaga. It was released for the PlayStation Portable in Japan on February 25, 2005 and contained eleven classic games from Namco's game history. The game was developed by Namco Tales Studio Ltd...

 for the PlayStation Portable

PlayStation Portable

The is a handheld game console manufactured and marketed by Sony Corporation Development of the console was announced during E3 2003, and it was unveiled on , 2004, at a Sony press conference before E3 2004...

 and Namco Museum Virtual Arcade for the Xbox 360

Xbox 360

The Xbox 360 is the second video game console produced by Microsoft and the successor to the Xbox. The Xbox 360 competes with Sony's PlayStation 3 and Nintendo's Wii as part of the seventh generation of video game consoles...

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Pac-Man Arrangement is a remake of the game Pac-Man

Pac-Man

is an arcade game developed by Namco and licensed for distribution in the United States by Midway, first released in Japan on May 22, 1980. Immensely popular from its original release to the present day, Pac-Man is considered one of the classics of the medium, virtually synonymous with video games,...

. It was released in 1996 by Namco

Namco

is a Japanese corporation best known as a former video game developer and publisher. Following a merger with Bandai in September 2005, the two companies' game production assets were spun off into Namco Bandai Games on March 31, 2006. Namco Ltd. was re-established to continue domestic operation of...

 as part of Namco Classic Collection Vol. 2.

Gameplay

Like the original Pac-Man

Pac-Man

is an arcade game developed by Namco and licensed for distribution in the United States by Midway, first released in Japan on May 22, 1980. Immensely popular from its original release to the present day, Pac-Man is considered one of the classics of the medium, virtually synonymous with video games,...

, Pac-Man Arrangement is a maze

Maze

A maze is a tour puzzle in the form of a complex branching passage through which the solver must find a route. In everyday speech, both maze and labyrinth denote a complex and confusing series of pathways, but technically the maze is distinguished from the labyrinth, as the labyrinth has a single...

 game in which the objective is to clear all Pac-Dots on the board by eating them and avoiding hazardous contact with the ghosts that also inhabit the maze. The Clyde/Blinky error is featured too.

There are 6 worlds numbering 0-5 and 23 rounds total. After completing Round 4 in World 5, Clyde, Pinky, Inky and Blinky will get in a machine and start the boss battle. In this round, you must avoid the ghosts' machine and Kinkys they send out. Each set of Kinkys are colored differently to represent the ghosts' colors: red, pink, cyan, orange. One set of Kinkys will go after Pac-Man. When all green Pac-Dots are eaten, an S Bomb will appear. The S Bombs are color coded, just like the Kinkys and one of the ghosts. Eating it will destroy the respective Kinkys and turn the respective ghost blue. When all of the ghosts are blue, a Pac-Man Bomb will appear. When eaten, the ghosts' machine is destroyed, 100,000 points are awarded, and the game ends.

In (at least) the arcade version, if one player is playing, and another player inserts a coin (unless free play is selected in the games options) and presses the 2P Start button. Player 2 will spawn a green Pac-Man that will play alongside Player 1. At the end of each level, scores for each player are counted up. The player with the most points wins over the other player.

Ghosts

Each ghost has characteristics similar to those displayed by their counterparts in the original arcade game. There is also a new yellow ghost with glasses named Kinky. While the four main ghosts are only edible for a brief period after Pac-Man eats an energizer, Kinky is always vulnerable to attack and is always blue except for when Pac-Man loses a life. If he is eaten by Pac-Man, he acts as an energizer, making the other ghosts vulnerable to attack as well for a brief time. In some levels, there are dash arrows on the floor that allow Pac-Man to rapidly zip from one end of the board to the other end. When on a dash panel, passing ghosts will make them dizzy and temporarily motionless. There are also additional power-up items that appear occasionally. However, when Kinky touches a ghost, they transform into their power form which are harder to avoid. Kinky will choose a certain ghost to go towards each time he comes in. Clyde (then Urchin) dashes when Pac-Man is in his line of sight, Pinky (now Romp) jumps anywhere in the maze mostly near Pac-Man, Inky (then Stylist) creates a reflection of himself that can harm Pac-Man, and Blinky (becoming Crybaby) adds 20-point Pac-Dots to the maze. As levels progress, Kinky appears more often, causing more than one ghost to be transformed unless he is eaten. In World 0, if you eat Kinky the first time he comes out, he will reappear and try a second time. The number of times Kinky appears (as well as after Pac-Man eats him) increases with each world passed. In some levels, Kinky will not get Clyde - Clyde just gets angry.

Items

Items occasionally spawn at Pac-Man's regular spawning spot. These include wands, fruits and other objects.

The red wand makes Pac-Man go faster. The pink wand sends ghosts into a pot like the pot item itself. The cyan wand makes Pac-Man have his own reflection. The orange wand makes Pac-Man gobble Pac-Dots faster. The yellow wand adds 100 points. The stick transforms the ghosts into presents. When eaten, the ghosts remain where they are until the effect wears off or Pac-Man eats them all. Fruits, objects and 1-ups are special items.

Ports

This game is packaged along with Pac-Man, Ms. Pac-Man

Ms. Pac-Man

Ms. Pac-Man is an arcade video game produced by Midway as an unauthorized sequel to Pac-Man. It was released in North America in 1981 and became one of the most popular video games of all time, leading to its adoption by Pac-Man licensor Namco as an official title...

, and nine other games in Namco Museum

Namco Museum

Namco Museum refers to the series of video game compilations released by Namco for various 32-bit and above consoles, containing releases of their games from the 1980s and early 1990s...

for PlayStation 2

PlayStation 2

The PlayStation 2 is a sixth-generation video game console manufactured by Sony as part of the PlayStation series. Its development was announced in March 1999 and it was first released on March 4, 2000, in Japan...

, Xbox

Xbox

The Xbox is a sixth-generation video game console manufactured by Microsoft. It was released on November 15, 2001 in North America, February 22, 2002 in Japan, and March 14, 2002 in Australia and Europe and is the predecessor to the Xbox 360. It was Microsoft's first foray into the gaming console...

, and Nintendo GameCube

Nintendo GameCube

The , officially abbreviated to NGC in Japan and GCN in other regions, is a sixth generation video game console released by Nintendo on September 15, 2001 in Japan, November 18, 2001 in North America, May 3, 2002 in Europe, and May 17, 2002 in Australia...

, which was only released in North America. It was also released with three other games in Pac-Man Collection

Pac-Man Collection

is a compilation of four Pac-Man games, released in 2001 and 2002 for the Game Boy Advance: Pac-Man, Pac-Mania and Pac-Man Arrangement, all ports of arcade games which follow the essence of classic Pac-Man gameplay; and Pac-Attack, a falling-block puzzle game originally released on the Sega Mega...

which got a worldwide release.