Baby Pac-Man (1982)

Bally Midway, Dave Nutting Associates

Arcade

3.13 from 8 ratings

19 members have it in their collection · 5 backlogged · 5 wish listed

Baby Pac-Man is a hybrid arcade/pinball game released by Bally Midway on October 11, 1982. The cabinet consists of a 13-inch video screen seated above an elevated horizontal pinball game, and the combination fits into roughly the same size space as an upright arcade machine. The development of Baby Pac-Man was not authorized by Namco. It was designed and released … Read more
Baby Pac-Man is a hybrid arcade/pinball game released by Bally Midway on October 11, 1982. The cabinet consists of a 13-inch video screen seated above an elevated horizontal pinball game, and the combination fits into roughly the same size space as an upright arcade machine. The development of Baby Pac-Man was not authorized by Namco. It was designed and released entirely by Bally-Midway (as were Pac-Man Plus, Jr. Pac-Man, and Professor Pac-Man), which eventually led to Namco canceling its relationship with Bally-Midway. 7,000 units were produced. Read less
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Details

Developers
Bally Midway, Dave Nutting Associates
Publishers
Bally Manufacturing
Genres
Pinball
Themes
Action
Franchises
Pac-Man
Series
Pac-Man

Release dates

  • Dec 1982 (Full Release) (North_America) Arcade
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Rating distribution

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Reset_Tears

Status Reset_Tears Jul 7, 2022

It's half pinball, it's half arcade game. It's Baby Pac-Man! And neither the pinball nor the arcade parts are that great to be honest, but the sheer novelty of this makes it very cool to play. The idea is you play a game of Pac-Man (not as good as the original one, looks vaguely Atari-ish), but there are no power …

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It's half pinball, it's half arcade game. It's Baby Pac-Man! And neither the pinball nor the arcade parts are that great to be honest, but the sheer novelty of this makes it very cool to play. The idea is you play a game of Pac-Man (not as good as the original one, looks vaguely Atari-ish), but there are no power pellets. You have to go down a tube, which will send (baby) Pac-Man down to the tiny pinball machine. There aren't many targets or chutes, but if you hit the right things you will add power pellets to the maze on the arcade screen. Cool concept that I really wish was expanded upon further for other classic arcade games! Even just more takes on Pac-Man with this would've been great. My hope is that one day some kind of release for this will be created in one of the many pinball video game collections out there... Probably not likely any time soon, with all the weird licensing that has long plagued the Pac-Man franchise. (And since it's not like a ton of people are clamoring for it...)

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