Pakdream 1
Release type: Shareware
Release date: 1993 (original release)
Levels: 13
Author: Gary Acord
Website: Acord Games
Registration bonus: Pakdream 2 and Pakdream 3, hint sheet, secret bonus game, copies of all shareware games, membership in the Zapper Game Club
Registration price: $20
Related games: Zapak, Pakmon, Anyworld, Pac, PC-Man's World, Techno Pac-Man
Apparently this is the sequel to Zapak, and the precursor to Pakmon.
Contents
Story
Due to the popularity of our Pakgame Zapak, we were compelled to release another game in that style!
Zapak's friend Pak is comical & spectacular in this thrilling arcade PC game, and runs, jumps and shoots his way to a startling, cataclysmic climax!
Instructions
- ARROW KEYS - move around.
- SPACE BAR - shoot
- Z - jump left.
- X - jump right.
- F1 - in-game information
- F2 - inventory & status
- F3 - music on or off
- F5 - save game
- F6 - load game
- F1O - about Acord Games
Credits
Resources
Sprites
- Nearly every level has a different character sprite. Most are edits of the same one or two original sprites.
Maps
- The game is based roughly on Nebula. There's an easy mode and a hard mode; each mode has a space level that leads to a red and a green planet, and then the sun.
- The intro level seems mostly original.
- One of the space levels has been redecorated with graphics from Doom.
- Several levels also appear to be retrospectively borrowed from Pakmon.
Availability
Distributed through contemporary bulletin boards, through the author's Website, and through several third-party mirror archives.
Links
Interviews / Articles
- Inside the Mind of Gary Acord (Gamasutra)
Listings
Misc. Links
Downloads
- Pakdream (835 kB)
- Difficulty select map (? kB)
- Easy maze 1 map (? kB)
- Easy maze 2 map (? kB)
- Easy star map (? kB)
- Easy blue map (? kB)
- Easy green map (? kB)
- Easy red map (? kB)
- Final map (? kB)
- Hard maze map (? kB)
- Hard star map (? kB)
- Hard green map (? kB)
- Hard red map (? kB)
