Professor Pac-Man is an arcade game produced by Bally Midway in 1983. Designed to capitalize on the perceived quiz game niche, the game presents simple visual puzzles and requires the player to solve each within a short time limit. Despite the game's use of the popular Pac-Man character though, Professor Pac-Man flopped due to a slow pace and an abandonment of the famous maze game.
The game is for one player or two (taking turns) and consists of ...
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Professor Pac-Man is an arcade game produced by Bally Midway in 1983. Designed to capitalize on the perceived quiz game niche, the game presents simple visual puzzles and requires the player to solve each within a short time limit. Despite the game's use of the popular Pac-Man character though, Professor Pac-Man flopped due to a slow pace and an abandonment of the famous maze game.
The game is for one player or two (taking turns) and consists of answering multiple-choice questions before time runs out. The timer is a Pac-Man eating a row of dots; The more dots left when a correct answer is given, the higher the score awarded. As the levels progress, the dots disappear more quickly. Bonus questions are given after several correct answers. The game ends when a certain number of questions are answered wrong, or when time runs out.
Midway originally had plans for three different versions of this game:
There were to be new question upgrades every four months to keep people from memorizing...
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