how many levels are there in pac man
256
title: Pac-Man text: awareness of any video game character among American consumers, recognized by 94 percent of them. "Pac-Man" is one of the longest-running video game franchises from the golden age of video arcade games. The Google Doodle version was estimated to have been played by over 1 billion people worldwide in 2010. "Pac-Man" is part of the collection of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. and New York's Museum of Modern Art. The player navigates Pac-Man through a maze containing dots, known as Pac-Dots, and four multi-colored ghosts: Blinky, Pinky, Inky and Clyde. The goal of the game is to accumulate points title: Pac-Man text: took the US National Video Game Team on a tour of the East Coast to visit video game players who said they could get through level 256. No video game player could demonstrate this ability. In 1999, Billy Mitchell offered $100,000 to anyone who could complete level 256 before January 1, 2000. The prize expired unclaimed. Up into the early 1970s, Namco primarily specialized in kiddie rides for Japanese department stores. Masaya Nakamura, the founder of Namco, started to direct the company toward arcade games, starting with electromechanical ones such as "F-1" (1976). He later hired a number of software title: Pac-In-Time text: original arcade game). By fighting through snowy mountains and forests, swimming through water and swinging through trees, collecting fireballs and bubbles and facing enemies such as bats and ghosts, he must find his way back to his present day. The player controls Pac-Man as he must find his way through five different worlds, each with 10 different levels. Each level contains about 30 different Pac-Pellets that must be found in order to complete it. The end of the level is marked with a door that is only opened once all of the required pellets have been collected. Along the way, title: Pac-Man Championship Edition text: eating ghosts. The longer the player stays alive, the faster the game gets and the more points can be earned. As opposed to levels, the game is played within a certain time limit, with players attempting to get the highest score possible. The game features six modes: Championship, which is the basic five-minute mode, two Challenge modes which affect the stage (such as increasing power pellet pickups or putting the maze in darkness) and three Extra modes featuring different mazes. The game also supports online leader boards. The game was originally released on the Xbox Live Arcade service on June title: Pac-Man World text: The only non-Pac-Man Namco character that made it into the story was Pooka (from Dig Dug), and holdovers from the original vision were Ms. Pac-Man and Professor Pac-Man. "Pac-Man World" is a platform game played in 3D graphics that plays heavily into the history of the character; every non-boss level features a maze that plays by the rules of Pac-Man (though the Pac-Symbol still shows, letting the player survive being touched by ghosts up to four times). Every level is littered with Pac-Dots, fruits and ghosts, much of the music is modified from early entries into the series (one of