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Pac-Man has gotten quite a bit of love over the years, actually. Pac-Man was never going to be an all-encompassing media franchise the way Mario is. The original game endures because of its simple concept and instantly recognizable characters. Even non-gamers generally know what Pac-Man is.

Nevertheless, the Pac-Man franchise did spawn a lot of games in the arcades and on home consoles. Examples include Pac-Land (a side-scrolling platformer from 1984), Pac-Mania (an isometric-pseudo-3D Pac-Man from 1987), Pac-Man 2 on the SNES, and the Pac-Man World games from the 5th and 6th-gen consoles, and more recently, the Pac-Man Championship Edition games available on downloadable services.

I have Pac-Man DX II on PS3, and it is quite good.

Jr. Pac-Man wasn't a bad game, although I still think Ms. Pac-Man is a much better game, and it's kind of a pity that Namco didn't include it on the compilations, whatever their feelings about Midway's independent Pac-Man projects.

I haven't, although I wouldn't mind seeing it at least once. The Pac-family was largely a construct of the Midway years and Hanna-Barbera, and that may have been one of the things Namco wanted no part of. I did like the Pac-Man cameos in Wreck-It Ralph.

No. Most achievements/trophies are incredibly dull and require spamming the more boring parts of a game ad nauseam.

I never played Tower of Doom. A bar on the University of Oklahoma campus, however, had a Shadows Over Mystara machine, and I plugged quite a few quarters into it. I was kind of bummed that it never got a home release in the US on the PlayStation. I was thinking of buying the Saturn D&D Collection. However, although I am a game collector, the only games I will spend three figures on are RPGs, and even those have to be pretty top-end for me to blow that much cash.

Problem solved, thanks to Capcom. I haven't picked it up yet, but I think I will download the PSN version of it.

This all the way. My favorite games this generation, with few exceptions have come from neither the bloated excesses of EA, Activision, or Ubisoft, nor from low-budget indies, but from the middle class of games that seems to be narrowing as the industry polarizes towards the two extremes.

I'm definitely getting both Xillias. I've already gotten the three Op Rainfall Wii RPGs and Project X Zone. As long as we get great RPGs from Japan, I'll yssupport them. This has been the best time for Japanese RPGs since the PS1 days IMO.

The characters in Project X Zone are from Valkyria Chronicles 3, which sadly has never been released in the US. Makes me wish Sega had released it here. :(

My GOTY so far is Ni no Kuni, and I doubt that's going to change before the end of the year, unless Tales of Xillia or something else turns out to be absolutely amazing. I love Ni no Kuni. Other than Valkyria Chronicles, it's my favorite game of the entire generation. Screw the handful of haters. :)

Other than that, my favorite games so far have been Bioshock Infinite and Project X Zone. Sadly, I've never really liked Animal Crossing all that much, but I'm glad you're enjoying it.