Breaking Backlog: Game Boy Advance
Oct 11, 2026 · 38 min · 9 segments
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Pac-Man Collection, featuring Pac-Man, Pac-Mania, Pac-Attack, and Pac-Man Arrangement, released July 12th, 2001 in North America exclusively for the Game Boy Advanced, published by Namco and developed by our trusty friends Mass Media, who, as you'll remember, are responsible for Namco Museum.
This was actually the next game they published after Namco Museum, StarCraft 64, a bunch of developer work now that they are owned by 2K, working on new Tales from the Borderlands and Mafia 3.
This is slightly more subtle being just Pac-Man, but this is a celebration of Namco's Pac-Man franchise.
This is not a terrible one, and it's nice that they've been updated, uh, but you are able to play these in a variety of different locations.
Uh, Pac-Man, Pac-Mania, Pac-Attack, and Pac-Man Arrangement are all available elsewhere.
Being a child in the early 2000s and having no other way to play all of these wonderful Pac-Man games, you now have the option.
Pac-Mania, which is just 3D Pac-Man with some different maps, which has always been fun.
But you do have to deal with ghosts and trying to make them be eaten by the Pac-Man blocks, which is pretty fun.
And again, with the Mass Media collections, it's totally stripped of multiplayer.
This is a purely single-player experience, and you're not able to play against your friends at all, even with a link cable.
If you are a Pac freak and really care about the Pac-Man scores and battling against your friends, this is not a good way to play Pac-Man for you.
We'll keep this one very short and sweet as there isn't much to say about Pac-Man, especially in this format, and we'll move on to our next game.
Pac-Man Collection, featuring Pac-Man, Pac-Mania, Pac-Attack, and Pac-Man Arrangement, released July 12th, 2001 in North America exclusively for the Game Boy Advanced, published by Namco and developed by our trusty friends Mass Media, who, as you'll remember, are responsible for Namco Museum.
This was actually the next game they published after Namco Museum, StarCraft 64, a bunch of developer work now that they are owned by 2K, working on new Tales from the Borderlands and Mafia 3.
This is slightly more subtle being just Pac-Man, but this is a celebration of Namco's Pac-Man franchise.
This is not a terrible one, and it's nice that they've been updated, uh, but you are able to play these in a variety of different locations.
Uh, Pac-Man, Pac-Mania, Pac-Attack, and Pac-Man Arrangement are all available elsewhere.
Being a child in the early 2000s and having no other way to play all of these wonderful Pac-Man games, you now have the option.
Pac-Mania, which is just 3D Pac-Man with some different maps, which has always been fun.
But you do have to deal with ghosts and trying to make them be eaten by the Pac-Man blocks, which is pretty fun.
And again, with the Mass Media collections, it's totally stripped of multiplayer.
This is a purely single-player experience, and you're not able to play against your friends at all, even with a link cable.
If you are a Pac freak and really care about the Pac-Man scores and battling against your friends, this is not a good way to play Pac-Man for you.
We'll keep this one very short and sweet as there isn't much to say about Pac-Man, especially in this format, and we'll move on to our next game.
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