Hipster Whale does allow players to outright buy infinite credits - essentially buying the game - to play without worrying about the free-to-play aspect, but even without that purchase every player will value their playtime without diving into their wallets every few minutes. You can purchase a single continue for any run in the title and Hipster Whale is hoping this makes gamers value their best runs more. Hall points to Spelunky as another influence on Pac-Man 256.

We wanted to have it feel different as well. 'We had a few people ask us if we'd like to collaborate on projects, but a Namco-branded Pac-Man was a pretty easy 'Yes' for us. 'I think enjoyed what we did with Crossy Road,' Hipster Whale co-founder Matt Hall told Polygon.

Played from the isometric perspective, the question is how long can you avoid the glitches? There's also a host of new power-ups (Freeze, Laser, and Bomb) to help you in your quest, alongside new ghosts to hold you back. Pac-Man has to avoid ghosts, eat dots, and stay far way from a wave of garbled characters that threatens to swallow him up. Pac-Man 256 is an endless runner based on that glitch. The entire right side of the game screen turned into a mess of characters and colors, making the level unplayable. That means the highest value it could count to was 255, so upon reaching 256, things got screwy. The old glitch was due to the fact that the game was stored as an 8-bit integer. Hipster Whale's new title is Pac-Man 256, an officially-licensed Pac-Man game based entirely on the series' map 256 glitch.

Now the studio is back with another look into gaming's past. Hipster Whale created Crossy Road, a mobile Frogger homage that became one of the most popular titles on the App Store and Google Play in 2014. You've probably never heard of the name Hipster Whale, but you may be familiar with the developer's work. Some content, such as this article, has been migrated to VG247 for posterity after USgamer's closure - but it has not been edited or further vetted by the VG247 team. This article first appeared on USgamer, a partner publication of VG247.

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