Microsoft updates Pac-Man for Xbox 360
Seattle PI | at | by Mike
Microsoft usually tries to wow Xbox 360 video gamers with the latest, greatest thing. The company's newest weapon is 27 years old: Pac-Man.
Microsoft, trying to gobble up older gamers who grew up dodging Blinky, Pinky, Inky and Clyde to a "wakka wakka wakka" soundtrack, on Tuesday unveiled the first new Pac-Man mazes since 1981. The company will sell them as part of "Pac-Man Championship Edition" for the Xbox 360, Microsoft said in a statement.
Microsoft has trailed Nintendo Co.'s Wii console in U.S. sales for the past four months as Wii lures more of the younger and older gamers that elude Microsoft's Xbox 360. Many of the Xbox 360's current customers weren't born when helping Pac-Man snag Power Pellets and fruit at the local arcade was the rage.