Pac-Tac by Computerware

[zephyr]

This is a copy of Pac-Tac by Computerware.

Pac-Tac is an excellent Pac Man clone with 9 colour graphics, full sound effects, and a more complicated maze (with more power pills) than the original arcade version.

[snarkhunter]

... Thank you!

And just in case you should ever feel like comparing, you'll even find a "Pac-Tac 2" game on my "ARCAD05A.vdk" file. Based on the title screen and publisher, it looks like a later version of the same game.

[zephyr]

The two games seem to be exactly the same, right down to gameplay and sound. The only difference is the familiar green screen graphics of "Pac-Tac 2" vs the 9 colour graphics of the original Pac-Tac game.

Regards,
Steve

[sixxie]

The Microdeal import was "Ghost Attack", and there are various versions listed on L. Curtis Boyle's coco games list.

[zephyr]

Yes, this game made money for several publishers over the years, but the author was never credited.

[sixxie]

Which is odd, given what an awful Pac-Man clone it is! Though in the interest of fairness, it's probably pretty decent for a 16K game.

I always quite liked Racer Ball (which I've found with a similar variety of graphical hacks on various CoCo disks).

[zephyr]

There's a quick review of Pac-Tac on YouTube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4pT5KUqIqU