RememberPac-Man VS.? It was thatwacky, ingenious, 4-player GameCube versionofPac-Man, in which four people equipped with their own Gameboy Advances, would e-LARP the cat-and-mouse orgy of death that isPac-Man. The title was completely overlooked by the average gamer, as it was only released as a “pac”-in (damn I’m clever!) withPac-Man World 2,I-NinjaandR: Racing Evolution; games that were largely relegated to fluffing copies ofLuigi’s Mansiondue to their unappealing main characters and theirexcellenceat masturbating faux-Italian plumbers.
Thankfully, Namco hasdecided to re-releasethe title in the upcomingNamco Museumfor the Nintendo DS. Thanks to the portability and game-sharing abilities of the DS (not to mention its ubiquity), people actually have a chance of getting a multiplayer game set up this time!
Of course, the rest of the titles on theNamco Museumanthology are the same rehashes you’ve been playing since before your girlfriend was born (Dig Dug II,Xevious,Galaga… etc.), but sincePac-Man VS.is the video game equivalent of group sex, most people won’t even notice that the other titles are on the cart.
(Editor’s Note: I’m totally not taking credit for that picture above, but since I can’t move, I’m rather proud to be able to admit that that graphic is the pinnacle of Pac-related humor and I simply could not top it. You have to know when to fold ’em … — Nex)
