When you think of Pac-Man, you think of a yellow circle that goes around a maze eating dots and avoiding ghosts. This is NOT the case with "Professor Pac-Man". In fact, it has nothing to do with Pac-Man at all. This game is a quiz game. That's it. Oh yeah, and the slapped the name "Pac-Man" all over it. That means it HAS to be good, right?

The game is a quiz game, where you must answer multiple choice questions as quickly as you can within a certain time limit. There range from memory questions, to mirror images, and visual puzzles. The sooner you answer the question correctly, the more points you get. Simple. And boring. Ugh.

Graphics: 3
Nothing to scream about here. The graphics aren't terrible, but they aren't great, either. This game came out in 1983, and compared to other games that were out at the time (Tron, Dig Dug, Donkey Kong), they look a little too pixelated. It seems like the designers tried to make this game as quickly as possible without adding detail to make everyone look nicer. Honestly, Bally, you can certainly do better than THIS.

Sound: 4
Most game's sound effects sound a lot like those of "Super Pac-Man", while the rest seem very generic. If it was surrounded by other popular titles from the time it came out, and I tried to listen to see if I could hear the game over the others, nothing about this game would make it stand out from the rest in terms of its audio. 

Addictiveness: 1
This game is not fun or addicting to me. There are plenty of other quiz games out there that ARE somewhat fun (Jeopardy!, Trivial Pursuit), but this game isn't. I see no point in even playing this game.

Depth: 6
For as lame as this game is, it certainly has a wide variety of questions and puzzles to answer. You'll always be treated with a different question every time, or a variation of an earlier question.

Difficulty: 7
Of course, being an arcade game, it's pretty hard. You have to think fast and use that noggin if you want to beat the clock. If you're not good at critical thinking or thinking fast under pressure, this game isn't for you.

Overall Rating: 2
This game is not worthy of an arcade status. This is more like those educational NES titles that no one ever bought because video games aren't really meant to be educational. The reason people play video games is to escape their own reality and enter a virtual world where you can do the impossible and have fun doing it. And this is the reason "Professor Pac-Man" flopped. In short, it's just a boring, boring game.

I agree with you , this game is horrible

Well That's life

pollyisagoodbird : I think the game is crap too.

Yeah, this game does suck. I can't believe they made a boring quiz game and put Pac-Man in it. There are educational games with Mario in them, too.

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