Championship
Who would have thought that Pacman could be relevant once again. The game that introduced me to computers and videogames more than 20 years ago is back, with an update from it’s original designer, in the XBox Live Arcade game Pacman Championship Edition. It’s as simple as ever, and the upgrades take nothing away from the original concept; eat the dots, avoid the ghosts. But now, rather than the whole maze being covered, only one half is covered at a time, which once you’ve eaten a certain amount of it, a piece of fruit appears. Eat the fruit, and the other half of the maze gets covered in dots. You then repeat this, hoping to gain as many points as possible before the 5 or 10 minute countdown at the top of the screen reaches zero.
It’s good old-fashioned fun, and easy to enjoy for somebody like me who still has trouble with all the games nowadays that require every button on the controller to play. All the fancy graphics in the world can take nothing away from something as classically enjoyable as this.
