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Miss playing Super Mario 35? There's a new quirky "battle royale" in town, following in the footsteps of Tetris 99. Available solely to Nintendo Switch players that have Nintendo Switch Online memberships, Pac-Man 99 is a new take on a classic. You'll be playing Pac-Man, but with power-ups, and versus 98 other players, attempting to be the last Pac-Man standing, as you eat ghosts and send them to other players' games. In addition to the main game, there will also be DLC packs, which offer skins that make the game look like other arcade classics, or one that adds single-player offline content. Pac-Man 99 launches later tonight, on the Nintendo Switch eShop.

 

[Nerdtendo]

I still play tetris 99. I'm not as good at pac man but it looks fun

 

[MajinCubyan]

And I'm over here waiting for Legend of Zelda 35.

Since I have a Nintendo Online sub and it, in all honesty, looks pretty fun and chaotic, I'm in.

 

[xdarkx]

fair enough, although I still feel that Nintendo isn't doing a good job nowadays, releasing suspitious updates, releasing the same genre of games and taking down fan projects... not cool...

Aside from releasing the same genre of games, I agree with your other points.

 

[slaphappygamer]

I’m so happy to have Pac-Man finally free! I’m going to renew my required paid online subscription so I can play this great, original, free game.

 

[WaffleRaccoon]

PacMan will be executed on March 31st 2022

 

[p1ngpong]

Pac man will go nicely with all the 30 year old NES roms that Nintendo pitifully gives its subscribers for "free"!

cry

 

[lilalex]

it looks like CHAOS
this is too much for me

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PacMan will be executed on March 31st 2022

yep thats nintendo

 

[lokomelo]

I focus on themes but they could easily release other quality of life improvements like folders or a browser... but I do agree that it's better than nothing.

It never was a metter of chose one over another, but I still prefer new games over OS improvements. Video Game consoles were made to play video games after all.

 

[BitMasterPlus]

Looks ok I guess? Although it seems like these types of games tend to be removed from the store after a couple of months.

 

[James_]

I'm probably gonna play this a lot and then probably drop off it after 2 weeks like I did with Mario 35

Still though, Pac-Man battle royale is a brilliant idea and I dunno why they didn't do this sooner

the logo reeks of g r a p h i k d e s i g n though ngl

fair enough, although I still feel that Nintendo isn't doing a good job nowadays, releasing suspitious updates, releasing the same genre of games and taking down fan projects... not cool...

Although I agree with the fan games part I'm not sure about the 'suspitious updates'. Either I missed a lot, or you're calling stability updates suspicious

 

[Xzi]

People love to joke about it, but TBH Tetris 99 and Mario 35 were better than all the other battle royale games, save maybe Apex Legends. Pac-Man 99 looks pretty fun too, though what I really want is Galaga 99.

 

[newo]

Well now I know we are living in the future.

 

[banjo2]

Still though, Pac-Man battle royale is a brilliant idea and I dunno why they didn't do this sooner

I mean, they kinda did

 

[Newersmbwquestion]

looks neat, but I suck at pacman so I doubt l would play this

 

[Deleted User]

I was too young for the original Pac-Man launch, so it never had the allure Golden Axe, Shinobi, Ninja Spirit, Ghost N' Goblins, Kiki Kaikai, Wonder Boy, Cabal and TMNT - all games that I played at the local shops and supermarkets, have for my rose-tinted glasses.

That said, from the NAMCO lineup, Galaga is a title that was on the way out in Sydney, only found at the Airport in my day, but I had a large Game & Watch-esque arcade cabinet clone which I played to death; my enjoyment of the Bullet Hell Genre can be attributed to that toy and this IP.

So while I'm not too interested in a Pac-Man Battle Royale, a Galaga 100 does sound appealing.

 

[PatrickD85]

Well nice plot twist but Super Mario 35 was something else...

 

[FanNintendo]

Look interesting Pac-Man 99 just another Challenge game like Pac-Man Champion Edition Plus

 

[smallissue]

I'd rather have the themes thank you.

 

[DarkCoffe64]

What happens if a player gets a kill screen!? XD

Nintendo bans you for "tampering with the console/game" or something

 

[NinStar]

To be honest, Mega Tunnel Battle still seems to be way better than this 99 game (although it is still a stadia exclusive)