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It has since appeared on several other platforms, including the PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, and iOS.

It is an HD reimagining of the original Pac-Man arcade game; players navigate Pac-Man through an enclosed maze, eating pellets and avoiding four ghosts that pursue him.

Clearing an entire side of the maze of dots will cause a fruit item to appear, and eating it will cause a new maze to appear on the opposite side.

Unhappy with earlier attempts to remake Pac-Man for removing many of the common elements present in the original, the development team focused on taking the original concept and expanding on two core features: the game speed and new mazes, which they felt would be the best way to modernize it.

Iguchi was not much of a Pac-Man fan, spending much of his time thinking about how hardcore Pac-Man fans would react to the games new features and ideas.

It was chosen to make the game feel like an arcade game, due to it being released for the Xbox Live Arcade service.

Publications commended the game for successfully translating the classic Pac-Man gameplay into a modern format, with its gameplay, soundtrack and online features also being praised.

One critic labeled it as the true sequel to Pac-Man since Ms.

It was followed by two sequels; Pac-Man Championship Edition DX, and Pac-Man Championship Edition 2.

Championship Edition, however, also brings many game play differences.

Eating a power pellet causes the ghosts to turn blue, allowing Pac-Man to eat them and send them back to their home, where they re-emerge in their original form.

Eating all the dots on one half causes a bonus item to appear on the other side, and eating the item causes a new maze to appear on the other half.

Players can also collect additional power pellets to increase their powered up time and continue earning maximum points for eating ghosts.

The longer the player stays alive, the faster the game gets and the more points can be earned.

As opposed to levels, the game is played within a certain time limit, with players attempting to get the highest score possible.

Thanks to his background in designing arcade games during his time at Namco, specifically Pac-Man Arrangement for Namco Classic Collection Vol.

Microsoft had additional input on the project, requesting that the game have an arcade-like feel to it due to them wanting to release the game onto the Xbox Live Arcade service.

The development team also wanted Championship Edition to be appealing towards more modern players, those who had never played Pac-Man during its heyday.

Ideas such as the game increasing in speed as it progressed were added to draw in newer players.

Iguchi was not much of a Pac-Man fan, and had to look at the game from the perspective of a hardcore fan of the franchise while working on it.

Ports for iOS, J2ME, Android and PSP minis were released on December 10, 2009, middle of 2009, late 2010 and December 1, 2010 respectively.

The follow-up Pac-Man Championship Edition DX was released on Xbox Live Arcade on November 17, 2010 and PlayStation Network on November 23, 2010.

The original Pac-Man Championship Edition was ported to Nintendo 3DS as part of a retail game titled Pac-Man Galaga Dimensions in 2011 and is included in the downloadable game titled Pac-Man Museum in 2014.

The top two scorers, Robert Glashuettner of Austria and Carlos Daniel Borrego Romero of Mexico, competed for the championship in a single five-minute round.

Borrego was named Pac-Man World Champion and won an Xbox 360 console, specially decorated with Pac-Man artwork and signed by Tru Iwatani.

A demastered version of Pac-Man Championship Edition that runs on Nintendo Entertainment System hardware is included in the game compilation Namco Museum Archives Vol.

Critics felt that Namco Bandai successful brought the core idea of the original into the modern era of video games.

Joystiq called it The first true sequel to Pac-Man since Ms.

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The games Metacritic aggregator score is 83.

The iOS port was criticised for its microtransaction strategy 25 while the Android port was criticised for poor controls.

IGN criticised the PSPminis version due to the absence of online leaderboards and its inferiority to its sequel.

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