Zapak 1: The Zap-Pack!
Release type: Shareware
Release date: 1993 (original release)
Levels: 19
Author: Gary Acord
Website: Acord Games
Registration bonus: Zapak 2 and Zapak 3, hint sheet, secret bonus game, copies of all shareware games, membership in the Zapper Game Club
Registration price: $20
Related games: Pakdream, Pakmon, Anyworld, Pac, PC-Man's World, Techno Pac-Man, The Fantastic Zapman
FULL ENTRY COMING SOON!
Not to be mistaken for A-J Games's Pac or Erwin Bergervoet's PC-Man.
Zapak demonstrates plentiful and confusing digitized graphics.
Apparently the sequel to this is Pakdream, and the sequel to that is Pakmon.
Fairly straightforward structure, by Gary Acord standards.
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Contents
Story
ZAPAK 1 THE ZAP-PACK!
This Pacman-like game takes the journey one step beyond -- to the next frontier, to the outer limits of human imagination, and it will arry your gameplaying skills to their stongest-ever, fullest intensity!
Instructions
- ARROW KEYS - move around.
- SPACE BAR - shoot
- Z - jump left.
- X - jump right.
- F1 - ingame information
- F2 - inventory & status
- F3 - music on or off
- F5 - save game
- F6 - load game
- F1O - about Acord Games
Credits
Gary Acord, Acord Games
Resources
A variation of level 8 is used as the first level in The Fantastic Zapman.
Availability
Distributed through contemporary bulletin boards, through the author's Website, and through several third-party mirror archives.
Archive History
On November 7, 2010, Demu.org maintainer Swizzle pointed out the archive of Gary Acord material on the site -- which was swiftly added to the Game-Maker Archive.
Links
Interviews / Articles
- Inside the Mind of Gary Acord (Gamasutra)
Listings
Misc. Links
Downloads
- Zapak (959 kB)
- Level 1 map (? kB) Level 2 map (? kB) Level 3 map (? kB)
- Level 4 map (? kB) Level 5 map (? kB) Level 6 map (? kB)
- Level 7 map (? kB) Level 8 map (? kB) Level 9 map (? kB)
- Level 10 map (? kB) Level 11 map (? kB) Level 12 map (? kB)
- Level 13 map (? kB) Level 14 map (? kB) Level 15 map (? kB)
- Level 16 map (? kB) Level 17 map (? kB) Level 18 map (? kB)
- Level 19 map (? kB)
