Compatible emulators

Synopsis

Snapper has quite a complicated history. He started out as a faithful Pac-Man clone, and was even called "Pacman" until its release, when the name was changed to Snapper to avoid infringing on Namco's copyright. Nonetheless, this simple name change was not enough, and later versions saw the sprites change from the well-known, ghost-hunting yellow circle to a yellow ball with legs and a hat, hunted by humanoids.
One gameplay change from the original Pac-Man is the behavior of ghosts (or humanoids). Where they all have distinct movement patterns in the original, here they behave similarly, each patrolling a corner of the maze, but are released from their pen into the center of the screen at different times, with the red one being let out first. As in the original, bonus fruits appear in each level, the last being - fittingly - an acorn.

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