Pac & Pal

Pac & Pal

Pac & Pal is an arcade game released by Namco exclusively in Japan on July 30, 1983. It runs on the Namco Super Pac-Man hardware and the object of the game is for Pac-Man to eat all the items before he gets caught by the ghosts. Most of the items are fruits from the original Pac-Man game, with a few new additions. Their value varies, starting with the cherries at 50 points to the keys at 700 to 5000 points. The items had to be unlocked first by turning over cards scattered around the maze (instead of eating keys like in Super Pac-Man). Today, there are only a few cabinets left and it's probably one of the rarest Pac-Man titles to be found in playable format outside of Japan.