Pac-Man Battle Royale...My Digital Crack

Anytime I get out to a Gameworks or a Dave & Busters, the first and usually last thing I seek out is Pac-Man Battle Royale. This is a fantastic game. Highly addictive and great for taking shit with your buddies you are playing against. Or strangers as I do sometimes....they get so salty...

Anywho, this beauty was released by Namco Bandai Games in 2011 and is kinda hard to come across. Outside the big box arcade type places...you really don’t see it at many places so if you do...consider yourself lucky and get ready to empty your wallet.

This game comes in 2 versions. The cocktail table complete with a cool lit up sign that hangs above the players and 4 drink holders so non graceful slobs such as myself Can’t spill my milkshake over the glorious screen. This is the one you’ll usually see if you see it at all. It is smaller and compact and just makes more sense in my opinion.

There is also the insanely huge version that has 4 separate podiums where each player stands and controls their Pac-Man. It all connects to a gigantic screen in front of all players. This only place I remember playing this version at was at the top of the Stratosphere in Vegas. Any other time I’ve played has been the cocktail table.

The point of the game is simple. Last Pac-Man standing. This game is best when there are 4 players. It’s starts off each of you in a corner. There is always one less power up available compared to Pac-Men. 4 players? 3 power ups. 3 players? 2 power ups and so on. They will reappear throughout the game as well. You can bounce into other Pacs and ricochet them into ghosts or other PACs that are powered up so they can be eaten. Yeah, get a power up??? Eat the other Players. Last one standing wins. Usually it’s a best of 3 rounds or even 5 rounds as I’ve seen before. All depends on what it’s set at. It’ll also give you props for Eating most players, most pellets, games won. Things like that but we usually play for glory so it’s ganes won.

This is not a game you go up to, play and lose, and then walk away. This is a game where pride and excitement comes into play. You WILL reach back into your wallet. You WILL pump more dollars into this machine. I’m not Jedi Mindtricking you. Mearly stating the reality of the situation. This is also a great shit talking gane as I mentioned earlier. I shit talk in this one constantly. Win or lose. Gotta get in their head!!! It’s just how I roll.

I’m currently saving my pennies so that I can buy one of the cocktail tables. They roughly fetch around 5-6k but I have a buddy of a buddy who works in that field and said he could get me a brand spankin new one with warranty delivered to my door for 4100 smackers. I’m doing it. When that happens expect a better article on this beauty.

In the meantime, go find one. Seriously I promise you will wonder why you didn’t seek it out earlier. Also don’t make the mistake I did and purchase it on the PlayStation as it sucks so bad. I could not believe they screwed up that port so badly....

Here is myself (bottom left) and some of my shitbag friends after hogging this machine for hours at a place called IPlay America in Freehold NJ. We had 0 shame is bogarting this all evening...

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