Pac-Man The Board Game From Buffalo Games - A Nice Gift Idea
Pac-Man has already made an appearance on Twelve Days of Christmas Playlist. Why is Pac-Man appearing again? Well, the Arcade1Up Pac-Man HDMI Game Console was an affordable alternative to a much more expensive arcade machine. With such savings, $15.18 for a Pac-Man Board Game was a fun splurge.
While I vaguely remember the marble based game from the 1980s, the more recent version from Buffalo Games is an excellent modernization of the classic board game. It's also really cute. Pac-Man is the centerpiece of this board game and Buffalo Games did a nice job with it. The little yellow figurine makes that classic munching sound. Adorable!
There are some minor issues, which is covered in the review. But overall, this is a fun board game.
CHAPTERS
00:00 The Box!
00:13 Inside The Box!
00:34 Setting Up The Game
01:00 Cleaning The Board
01:14 Stickers
01:31 Pellets
02:02 Get Ready!
02:21 Pac-Man Figurine
02:34 Starting The Game
03:03 The Ghosts
03:36 Energizer
04:11 Ghost Eyes
04:42 Inky Attacks
04:52 Conclusion
CREDITS
Buffalo Games - @buffalogamesinc
Amazon Listing - www.amazon.com/Buffalo-Games-...
TAGS
#boardgames #pacman #giftideas #games #fun #boardgame #photics
I thought of a 5-player variant of this game. One player is Pac-Man, while the rest are ghosts. The turn order is Pac-Man, Blinky, Pinky, Inky, Clyde. (They are red, pink, blue, and orange respectively for you people who don't know which name goes to which color.) Pac-man rolls 3 dice, while the ghosts roll one die. As a ghost, you are unable to turn around 180 degrees at any time unless Pac-man has grabbed a power pellet on his last turn. You can pass other ghosts' spaces, but you cannot land on the same space as another ghost. Determine your path ahead of time to avoid this! When you catch Pac-man, he loses one of his 3 lives and you are the MVP of the round. If Pac-man eats all the dots on the board, he wins. If Pac-man runs out of lives before all the dots are eaten, the ghosts win.
Interesting! 🤔
I’m just trying my luck with this and it doesn’t look too great for the job so far And the way the new ones come up I just need the 😊
Used to play a pac man board game at my grandma's house. Wish i had another for my current house.
That's what's nice about board games. They're usually not too expensive. Although, I got this one when it was on sale. It was around 20% off… a little over $15. I checked Amazon, and the game is not on sale right now. However, Tetris was discounted, and that board game video should be on Photics.TV soon. 🙂
Reminds me of the monopoly arcade pacman board, comes with a little arcade cabinet where when you pass go you play pacman for a few seconds and use the points to purchase levels, you also have coins to insert into it to keep track of players
That's an interesting version of Monopoly. The little arcade looks cute. 😄
I think it would make a nice display.
It does look like a good decoration. I could see Pac-Man being placed on an office desk… people randomly pressing it to play the pellet eating sound effect. 😄
His little bewewewew sound effect was so cute!
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My family played it and said it was boring
I can see that as a possibility. 😄 …but I thought it was fun. When giving a board game as a gift, it depends on the recipient. I like this game because I like Pac-Man. I think the design of the game is great. The figurines are cute and I like the little cutouts. So adorable! Thinking of other board games, I prefer Risk rather than Monopoly, because I think Monopoly is not as fun as the strategy of Risk. And currently, Connect 4 is the #1 board game on Amazon. Connect 4 is a nice game. But right now, I like Pac-Man more. (Although, wow, Connect 4 is an even cheaper gift. Currently at $7.49.) Candy Land was ranked high, but I think The Game of Life is more fun. That one wasn't even in the top 50. It was ranked #72.
I could see that too if you play on a computer or arcade. The gameplay is slower. Still, Pacman is loved, so I suppose people will enjoy it for the novelty.
womp womp
Ain’t my problem
@@PhoticsTV it feels like they used the same game plans as the old board game of the 80s (with the ugly Pac-scooper and Marbles), but changed it to be clean-up friendly. Imagine if the Donkey Kong board game is given the same treatment, but the character art is based on the 1994 Game Boy game.
Man this game looks so cool, I think I remember that I have it
This does seem like a game I'll put in storage, but then maybe play it again later. Except, there's a battery in Pac-Man. I haven't removed it yet, but I've been thinking about doing that. Buffalo Games did a nice job with Pac-Man. I don't want to accidentally break it.
Looks really cool
I think it looks a lot better than the one from the 1980s, but the yellow pegs are a little tedious. I think while marbles are more fun. 😄
I remember having the old one with the yellow balls, took ages to set up lol
I thought they were white marbles, but I wasn't sure. So I looked online. The pictures showed yellow dots on the board, but the marbles were white. That's the one from 1980s though. That's also the one with a creepy looking Pac-Man, with teeth. 😄
It's charming. I'd give it a try or two
It's a cute game! It's a little loud, so maybe it's better suited for outside in the backyard, on a nice Spring day… not too sunny, not too windy. 😄
❤❤❤❤ Wow! While watching this video, I was playing the pac man theme music when the game starts!
That's a way to improve the board game. I've only heard the Pac-Man figurine makes one sound effect… _“waka waka”_ …the munching a dot sound. It should make the game start melody and the sound when Pac-Man gets caught. When making the video for Tetris… kzhead.info/sun/nbt-g5atqoekpKs/bejne.html …I wanted to include background music, but I couldn't find the game. I thought I had Tetris for the original GameBoy.
Ghost house is called regeneration chamber from Pac-Man ghostly adventures
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I vaguely remember seeing this game in the stores years ago, but I've never had a chance to play it.
I wasn't expecting this video to be so popular, especially considering that the game isn't new. But, it's a cute game. 😃
I had a PacMan game as a kid but the dots were marbles.
I think I remember the marbles and playing the original Pac-Man board game, but I'm not sure if I'm confusing it with Hungry Hungry Hippos. 😄
I have this game and I think it’s really fun
Nice! 🙂
the ghost house is actually called the "regeneration chamber" also i dont think pacman or the ghosts can go through walls
At the end of the video I was just smushing the yellow dots. The game was not in play at that point. 😄
@@PhoticsTVThe clicks of pushing the dots down feels satisfying.
Waka waka waka
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This looks very fun :)
Based on what I've seen in the comments here, and in the reviews on Amazon, people either think it's fun or it's boring. 😄 I think it's a cute game. Just yesterday, I was walking down the board game aisle and I was looking for something as fun (or even more fun) than this board game. Nothing looked that good… except that Connect 4 is a pretty cheap game.
mat said that the pellets are the ghosts eggs
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I wish i wanna buy that
I think it's a good game. I just checked Amazon and it was still available. So, your goal is still possible. 😄 That's a different situation than the Arcade 1Up Pac-Man HDMI Collection… kzhead.info/sun/mMVxeZh9hn6hl4k/bejne.html …shortly after that game system was reviewed, it wasn't so easy to get anymore. I think it's discontinued. 🙁
I got that on my 10th birthday!
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"Energizer" ummmmmm that's actually called a power pellet🤓🤓🤓🤓
The instructions say… _“When PAC-MAN eats a Power Pellet, he becomes energized”_ energizer is what we called it back in the 1980s. It seems interchangeable, but the board game instructions does call them Power Pellets.
I got this
Do you like Pac-Man The Board Game? 🤔
I need 3
I looked at the Amazon website and the Pac-Man board game was in stock. There was a quantity dropdown, and the number three was selectable.
We tried to play but it was a bit hard to play because of time to try to learn
There is a bit of setup and learning to this game. I think that's part of the experience though. It was fun setting this game up. 😄
It doesn’t seem fair they the ghosts can just get Parkman out right after the energizer is eaten, Parkman doesn’t even get until his next turn
I'm not 100% sure I understood the rules, but I think the main problem was that Pac-Man just got two bad rolls. Although, that could also be part of the strategy of the game. In the arcade, I usually wait for the ghosts to get closer to the energizer. I didn't do that in the board game.
This game look fun i remember going to the store and i saw this game on sale i was thinking of buying it but than i saw uno and got it because uno is the best game
UNO is currently #10 in “Dedicated Deck Card Games”. The top three in that category involve tacos and/or burritos. 😄
Say, what are the rules for the fruit pieces and the blue ghost pieces?
The instructions say, _“When a ghost is eaten, the PAC-MAN player collects a Blue Ghost Token and places it in his score pile. Each Blue Ghost Token is worth 200 points!”_ …so it looks like those little disks are a way of keeping score. Ghosts are only 200 points each. Apparently, it's not 200, 400, 800, 1600, like in the arcade. And for fruit, it says, _“If a Fruit Card is drawn, then place a fruit token on PAC-MAN's start space.”_ Apparently, it increases in value during Pac-Man's turn. It goes like this… 🍒- 100 Points 🍓- 200 Points 🍊- 500 Points That's similar to the arcade, but strawberries are worth 300 in the arcade. The big points are from completing all the dots in one of the four sections, which is 800 points each. Although it says an alternate scoring is to count each dot as 40 points… for more arcade like experience. It also mentions rules for "Arcade Mode", where Pac-Man has three lives, rather than just one in the standard rules.
@@PhoticsTV huh, I see! Thanks for clarifying!
Can u try the Sonic the hedgehog board game?
Do you mean Sonic The Hedgehog Crash Course? That game looks cute! I'm still testing out if Board Games are going to be a regular thing on the channel. The next one is a more portable version of Connect 4.
日本未発売なのが残念 輸入だと今だいぶ経費かかるから諦めるしかない
Wow! That's disappointing to see, especially since Pac-Man was originally created in Japan. And even though Buffalo Games is in the United States, it looks like this board game was made in China. I'm surprised that this game isn't easier to get over there. Although, the Japan version of the Amazon website doesn't work for you? 🤔
bruh they're power pellots
They've been called energizers too.
I have one😮
Cool! 😎
Sells in peru ?
I'm not from Peru, so I don't know. I went to the Amazon website, loaded up the Pac-Man The Board Game page, and changed the destination to Peru. It said… _“No Import Charges & $24.37 Shipping to Peru ”_ Again, I'm not the expert on such matters, but that shipping cost is more expensive than the game. 😄 Although, I saw another page that said… _“Free International Shipping to Peru - Orders with at least $49 USD of eligible items and shipping to a Peru address qualify for Free International Shipping. To learn more about eligibility requirements please visit the, How to get FREE Shipping to Peru page.”_ So, maybe Amazon could work… although reaching the free shipping requirement seems to be a challenge. This is something to check with Amazon though.
Ya, Id rather just have a tiny pacman machine for $20
The Arcade1Up Pac-Man HDMI Collection was reviewed here… kzhead.info/sun/mMVxeZh9hn6hl4k/bejne.html
🎉😂😂😂😂 me 👍 😌
I think that means you liked the video. 😄
This wasn't even the first Pac-Man board game.
It's not the one from the 1980s, and I did like the marbles, but I think the newer one is better. The pieces are cuter! 🥰
It has a very nice quality, but it's super boring, I have it.
I think it depends on the players. It's basically Pac-Man in slow motion. So, I can see how that might not be appealing. Yet, with a group of players that are silly, strategical, and friendly, that could be entertaining.
And pacman is dead bee booedbdoop
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