Pac-Match Party Preview

2010 marks the 30th birthday of Namco’s beloved mascot Pac-Man, but what’s a birthday without a party? Pac-Match Party is a new match-3 puzzle game that’s coming to the iPhone, and everyone’s invited!

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Pac-Man’s having a birthday party, and you’re invited!

2010 marks the 30th birthday of Namco’s beloved mascot Pac-Man, but what’s a birthday without a party? Pac-Match Party is a new match-3 puzzle game that’s coming to the iPhone, and everyone’s invited!

Traditional match-3 gameplay will make up the core of Pac-Match Party, with players matching like-colored ghosts and other items while trying to eliminate certain squares from the board. These squares will exist behind the matchable items, and will disappear once a match has been made over them. Players will need to remove all of the squares in a level before the timer runs out to advance to the next level.

The game will offer 30 stages in all, as well as a veritable cornucopia of Pac-nostalgia and charm. Little touches like the timer appearing not as numbers but as Pac-Man eating his way around the playing field, or fruits appearing in the matching playing field alongside the ghosts, should warm the hearts of any Pac-Man fan.

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The game will be launching shortly for the iPhone and iPod Touch for $1.99, with an iPad version to follow. Can’t wait to start Pac-Matching? Namco has launched a flash version of the game for free on their website. Want to know when Pac-Match Party is available on the iPhone? Be sure to set a Gamezebo game alert to be notified the moment it becomes available!

Jim Squires is the Editor-in-Chief of Gamezebo. Everything you see passes his eyes first, so we like to think of him as "the gatekeeper of cool stuff." He likes good games, great writing, and just can't say no to a hamburger. Also, he is not a bear.