Namco's new wave of arcade games, Pacman CEDX being the first.

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wow those ghosts have the most uninteresting AI ever conceived

i mean the original pac-man had fucking books written about the AI and these just follow you around?

sorry to go off-topic for a bit, but that reminds me of sonic!!

Sonic 1 had really amazing programming and graphics and etc for the time being. I saw on an interview that even the rotating maze was like WOW HOLY SHIT for the time being, few people thought that the smooth, precise rotation like that this could be done using Genesis' hardware, imagine how hard should be to program all the physics based on momentum then. Imagine how hard should be to get the pseudo-3D special stages on Sonic CD, Sonic 2 and Sonic 3. On Genesis hardware.

Then Sonic 4, almost 20 years later, comes up with technically worse and simpler physics.

But I guess on Pac-Man's case, it's probably just how it works on a couple of modes, where you have to "line up" the ghosts to eat them, thing that would be very hard to do if they split up to try to corner you like they did on the original game. I don't think that they would come up with worse AI than the original, but I think they might not improve them either.