Pac-Mania

Pac-Mania is a maze game viewed from an oblique perspective, with gameplay similar to the franchise's original installment. The player controls Pac-Man, who must eat all of the pellets in each stage while avoiding five colored ghosts: Blinky (red), Pinky (pink), Inky (cyan), Clyde (orange) and Sue (purple). Eating large Power Pellets will cause the ghosts to turn blue and flee, allowing Pac-Man to eat them for bonus points and send them to the house in the middle of the stage. Clearing the stage of dots and pellets will allow Pac-Man to move to the next.

Mazes scroll both horizontally and vertically, and the left and right edges of some layouts wrap around to each other. Touching a non-vulnerable ghost costs the player one life.

In Japan, Game Machine listed Pac-Mania as the fifth most successful table arcade unit of December 1987. In North America, Atari sold 1,412 arcade cabinets in 1987, earning about $2.82 million ($8 million adjusted for inflation) in cabinet sales.

Entertainment Weekly gave the Genesis version a B− in 1991.

The arcade version of Pac-Mania appeared in Namco Museum Volume 5, the 2001 Namco Museum release, Namco Museum: 50th Anniversary and Namco Museum Virtual Arcade. In 2001, it was one of the games included in Pac-Man Collection for the Game Boy Advance. Later in 2002, the arcade version was included as an unlockable bonus in Pac-Man World 2. In 2007, Pac-Mania was also released in Namco Museum Remix with Pac & Pal, Pac 'n Roll, Super Pac-Man and other non-Pac-Man games. It was re-released in 2010 as part of the follow-up compilation Namco Museum Megamix, along with 17 other Namco arcade games and six remix games, five of which appeared in Namco Museum Remix.

The game was released for the Wii's Virtual Console in 2009. In 2010, the design of Pac-Man and the ghosts from Pac-Mania appear in Pac-Man Championship Edition DX, and the game itself was released for iOS devices. Pac-Mania was also re-released as part of the Pac-Man's Arcade Party arcade machine in 2010 for Pac-Man's 30th anniversary. In February 2014, it was included in the Pac-Man Museum for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Windows.