Pakdream 1

Pakdream

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

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Not to be mistaken for A-J Games's Pac or Erwin Bergervoet's PC-Man.

Apparently this is the sequel to Zapak, and the precursor to Pakmon.

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Zapak series

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

Changing hues in Pakdream

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

Acord Games

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.

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

• archive.org entry
• demu.org entry

Misc. Links

• Play Pakdream online

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)