Pac Xon

August 18, 2006 10:52 AM

FFF: Pac Xon is like Qix, only with graphics from Pac Man, and the red ghosts eat your territory, and the popsicles freeze the ghosts. So maybe it's not so much like Qix, but it's similarly addictive. [via]
posted by scottreynen (17 comments total)

That was fun! Maybe a little too easy, but fun.
posted by jonson at 10:58 AM on August 18, 2006

That is a good game - nice mashup, well executed, and fun.

The original publisher's site is here, for what it's worth. Minijuegos.com tends to steal Flash games. Some publishers don't mind, some do.
posted by ae4rv at 11:02 AM on August 18, 2006

Awesome. Clever idea.
posted by GuyZero at 11:04 AM on August 18, 2006

That was fun - I enjoye the original Qix game, and this is a nicely done mashup.
posted by EndsOfInvention at 11:08 AM on August 18, 2006

Doh. I didn't realize that wasn't the original publisher. Unfortunately I can't change the link now, but thanks for the note, ae4rv.
posted by scottreynen at 11:08 AM on August 18, 2006

Actually, the original publisher's site is not as responsive as the link you posted, and it has way more ads. I've been poking around, however, and they have some nice little games there - try this one.
posted by ae4rv at 11:11 AM on August 18, 2006

Watch out for Inky!
posted by peeedro at 11:45 AM on August 18, 2006

I don't like what happens when you split the ghosts. it should kill the one of them when the area fills up.
posted by empath at 11:47 AM on August 18, 2006

Brilliant, Qix is one of my favourite gameboy games ever.
posted by fire&wings at 11:54 AM on August 18, 2006

Nice...in some small way it reminded me of the ancient Japanese board game of Go.
posted by bokeh at 12:01 PM on August 18, 2006

and i have a podcast to put up too! so evil!
posted by parmanparman at 12:25 PM on August 18, 2006

empath: it does the same thing as qix!
posted by aubilenon at 12:40 PM on August 18, 2006

aubilenon, in Qix splitting the helixes would end the level immediately with a bonus. That's not what I'm seeing here. (But then again, I'm not getting any sound, so maybe yours is playing differently)
posted by bitmage at 12:53 PM on August 18, 2006

Sorry to play curmudgeon here, but I'm not too fond of this one:
1. The game kills you if you backtrack on a line. You can kill yourself in a split second this way. It should just disallow this move.
2. The Pac-Man theme just doesn't fit: none of the monsters actually chase the player, and the only things eaten are the infrequently-appearing powerups.
3. The instructions say 75% territory is required to pass a level, but the game actually demands 80%.
4. Splitting ghosts does nothing.
5. When the player dies, there is absolutely no grace period at the start of the next life, sometimes resulting in the lost of more than one life from a single mistake.
6. After red ghosts are introduced, all the levels are mixtures of previous enemies, and the game gets boring fast.
posted by JHarris at 2:32 PM on August 18, 2006

7. Somewhere around level 20, there's a few empty levels, which fill to 100% after any line is drawn, and then the game starts over with a score of "NaN."

Oh well.
posted by scottreynen at 4:25 PM on August 18, 2006

it's really hard to do this and play online poker at the same time.
posted by delmoi at 8:08 PM on August 18, 2006

2. The Pac-Man theme just doesn't fit: none of the monsters actually chase the player, and the only things eaten are the infrequently-appearing powerups.

Eh, I think it makes the game more fun. Like how nintendo comes up with all sorts of games based on their mario characters.
posted by delmoi at 8:10 PM on August 18, 2006