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((short description|1983 video game))
((more citations needed|date=October 2014))
((Infobox video game
| title = Professor Pac-Man
| image = Prof pacman flyer.png
| image_size = 200px
| caption = 1983 arcade flyer
| programmer = Rick Frankel
| composer = Marc Canter
| developer = [[Midway Games|Bally Midway]]
| publisher = [[Midway Games|Bally Midway]]
| release = ((vgrelease|NA|August 12, 1983))
| genre = [[Quiz game|Quiz]]
| modes = 2 players can play simultaneously
| series  = ''[[List of Pac-Man video games|Pac-Man]]''
| arcade system = [[Midway Astrocade]]
| platforms = [[Arcade game|Arcade]]
))
'''''Professor Pac-Man''''' is a [[quiz]] [[arcade game]] that was produced by [[Midway Games|Bally Midway]] and is the seventh title in the ''[[Pac-Man]]'' series of games, which was released in August 1983. It is also the last of only seven games from Bally Midway Manufacturing to run on their [[Midway Astrocade hardware]]. Only 400 cabinets were made; approximately 300 of these were returned to the manufacturer and converted to ''[[Pac-Land]]'' cabinets the following year.((citation needed|date=July 2018))

==Description==
Designed to capitalize on the perceived [[quiz game]] niche, ''Professor Pac-Man'' presented simple visual [[puzzle]]s, and required the players (or "pupils", as they are called by the game) to solve each within a short time limit. Despite the game's usage of Namco's popular ''[[Pac-Man]]'' character, ''Professor Pac-Man'' did not fare very well in the arcades, due to its slow pace and its abandonment of the famous [[maze]]-based gameplay that made the previous titles so popular.<ref>((cite web|last=Buchanan|first=Levi|title=Off-Brand Pac-Man|url=http://retro.ign.com/articles/960/960583p1.html|work=IGN Retro|date=9 March 2009 |publisher=IGN|accessdate=2 July 2010|archive-date=27 May 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100527060412/http://retro.ign.com/articles/960/960583p1.html|url-status=live))</ref>

==Gameplay==
[[Image:Profpacman.png|thumb|left|200px|Screenshot]]
The game is for one player or two (in a two-player game, the player who is the first to answer a question correctly receives its points) and consists of answering [[multiple-choice question]]s before the time runs out. The timer is the original ''Pac-Man'', eating a row of pellets. The more pellets left when the players answer correctly, the higher the scores awarded. As the questions progress, Pac-Man eats the pellets more quickly. Bonus questions are awarded after a player answers between two and six questions correctly on his or her first try. The game ends when a player runs out of fruits (the game's equivalent of lives, which also serve as a difficulty indicator).  Fruits are lost for a wrong answer on a regular question (but not a bonus question), and fruits can also be earned for answering a bonus question correctly (but not lost if answered wrong).

Midway had also originally planned to release three different versions of this game: '''Family''' (appropriate for all ages, but geared towards younger players), '''Public''' (appropriate for general audiences, but geared towards arcades and bars), and '''Prizes''' (for casinos).

There were also to be new question upgrades every three months to keep people from memorizing the answers, but the game never caught on.((citation needed|date=July 2018))

Although most of the questions have nothing to do with ''Pac-Man'', certain questions (asking: "How many left/right turns to the fruit?") show the original ''Pac-Man'' maze (with a regular wall in the place of the ghost regenerator) and a line of pellets leading to a fruit in the center, and another question (which first requires the player to study a city scene) asks "Where would you go to play Prof Pac-Man?", while others require the player to fill in the blank lower-right square of a 16-square grid, with four different fruits (or Pac-Men facing different directions) in each row. On the questions which first require the player to study table settings ("Which was the correct sequence?" or "How many plates were (shape)?"), fruits would appear on the plates and Pac-Man would move from right to left as he ate them, if they were answered correctly, and for the questions which first require the player to study the light-up keys on giant telephones of various colors ("Which number was dialed?"), the receiver would come off the telephone and Pac-Man would appear to speak into it (again, if they were answered correctly).

==Development==
The original idea for ''Professor Pac-Man'' came from world champion [[foosball]] player Johnny Lott and Ed Adlum, the publisher of ''[[RePlay (magazine)|RePlay]]''. They approached Bally Midway, only to be told that the company had no interest. A few months later, Lott, working the National [[AMOA]] Trade Show in [[Chicago]], [[Illinois]], noticed ''Professor Pac-Man'' cabinets on display. He threatened legal action, and Bally Midway agreed to a [[Royalties|royalty]] contract. The gameplay is different than Lott-Adlum proposed design, which was much closer to a traditional videogame and featured questions being eaten by the ''Pac-Man'' character instead of pellets. It failed to create much interest in the marketplace.((citation needed|date=February 2013))

''Professor Pac-Man'' is based on a [[Zilog Z80]] microprocessor running at 1.79 [[Megahertz|MHz]] and uses two banks of 512k [[read-only memory|ROM]] (more than any other arcade game from the time).((Citation needed|date=July 2020)) The game was written in the [[Forth (programming language)|Forth]] programming language((citation needed|date=July 2018)) by Rick Frankel, with graphics by Mark Steven Pierce and Sue Forner, and sound and music by [[Marc Canter]].

==Legacy==
A Professor Pac-Man character appears in the ''[[Pac-Man World]]'' series. He looks similar to the character depicted in the ''Professor Pac-Man'' arcade game, except with the addition of a white mustache and a design closer to the official Pac-Man design. Despite Ms. Pac-Man and other characters being replaced in recent titles, Professor Pac-Man remains intact, implying he lacks any legal issues despite not being originally created by Namco.

==References==
((reflist))

==External links==
*((KLOV game|9135))
*[http://www.arcade-history.com/?page=detail&id=2052 ''Professor Pac-Man''] at the Arcade History database

((Pac-Man series))

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