After a week of margin since the withdrawal of Super Mario Bros. 35, Nintendo announces the new battle royale which adds to the incentives of Switch’s online service: PAC-MAN 99, a remake of the classic Namco Pac-Man for 99 players.
Following in the wake of Tetris 99
The rules? Essentially, 99 games of Pac-Man take place at once, but there will only be one winner. What’s more, we can make lots of inactive ghosts on screen follow in the wake of Blinky, Pinky, Inky y Clyde -our trusted enemies- and, when the time comes, distribute lots of enemies among the rest of the players by activating the Power Pellets
Various changes and adjustments to the experience of Pac-Man original that you can see in motion in its first trailer.
Like Tetris 99 and Super Mario Bros. 35, the new PAC-MAN 99 integrates at no additional cost to the Nintendo Switch Online offer, so that all active subscribers can download and play it for free Pac-Royale from April 8 in Europe, and on April 7 at 6:00 p.m. Pacific time in the United States.
However, there are several additional modes and even the possibility of adding customizable aspects of payment. Inspired by other Namco hits, like Xevious, GALAGA O Dig Dug, the extra contents of PAC-MAN 99 They serve to turn our kite and the decoration of the entire labyrinth into various classics from the arcade era.
Pac-Man It will turn 41 this summer, but the celebration of its four decades is not over yet. Yes, the last Battle Royale retro style in joining the online proposal of Switch is a detail for those passionate about the cult classics of arcades, the glory days of Atari and those nostalgic for 8-bits.