Pac-Man Bounce Soft Launches in Canada and Australia

Pac-Man is a champion at eating. He’s also proficient in giving murderous chase when he’s scarfed down a power pellet. But a new puzzle adventure game from Bandai Namco reveals that gaming’s favorite yellow hockey puck has another talent: He can bounce.

Pac-Man Bounce takes place across a series of food-based levels, because Pac-Man must be fed. He must always be fed. Despite the game’s unique visuals, basic Pac-Man logic applies here: If Pacster touches a ghost, he dies.

Of course, Pac-Man can eat a power pellet and turn the tables for a few precious seconds, but in Pac-Man bounce, the route to these power-packed pieces is a little more indirect than usual. There are, for instance, tiles that force Pac-Man to go in one direction. Pac-Man will also bounce off any walls he hits, hence the “Bounce” in the game’s name.

If you want to see the game in action, YouTuber Lonnie offers up a pretty amusing playthrough of the first few levels in the video above. Pac-Man Bounce is coming to iOS and Android later this year. For now, it’s in soft launch in Canada and Australia.

Nadia Oxford

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In the early aughts, Nadia fell into writing with the grace of a brain-dead bison stumbling into a chasm. Over the years, she's written for Nerve, GamePro, 1UP.com, USGamer, Pocket Gamer, Just Labs Magazine, and many other sites and magazines of fine repute. She's currently About.com's Guide to the Nintendo 3DS at ds.about.com.