Home Ports
Because of the somewhat limited popularity of the game, initially the only released port was for the Atari 2600 console; this version features different mazes that scroll vertically rather than horizontally, but is otherwise a faithful adaptation. Ports for the Atari 5200 and the Atari 8-bit computers were finished in 1984, but were scrapped along with Super Pac-Man when the home computing and game console divisions of Atari, Inc. were sold to Jack Tramiel. The game was later ported to some home computers such as the Commodore 64 and the PC.
The discovery of an unreleased prototype for the Atari 7800 was the subject of an April Fools' Day joke on the AtariAge forums in 2009. The joke was revealed as cover for a homebrew version of the game, which was released in ROM cartridge format.
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