Pac & Pal

Pac & Pal is an arcade maze game where you navigate Pac-Man through single-screen levels, collecting items while avoiding ghosts. The twist: instead of eating dots, you flip cards scattered across the maze to reveal collectibles—fruits worth 50 to 5,000 points depending on type. Keys score highest. Ghosts chase you as usual, and power pellets let you turn the tables temporarily. The card-flipping mechanic changes how you plan routes compared to standard Pac-Man, since you can't see what's valuable until you reveal it. Released only in Japan in 1983, it ran on modified Super Pac-Man hardware. If you want a Pac-Man variant that tweaks the formula without reinventing it, this delivers straightforward arcade action with one clever hook.