Jingling Jiazu Genie 2000

Arcade Video game published 25 years ago:

Jingling Jiazu Genie 2000 (c) 2000 IBS Company, Limited.

A "Pac-man" style game with Pac-Man and Pocket Monster (Pok'n) characters. Player 1 controls Puckman and Player 2 controls Pikachu's head. Trying to catch you are the Ghost Monsters from the Pac-man games along with some Pocket Monsters. Get the 'power fruit' and you can eat them instead. When you complete a level, you are shown a digitized photograph of an Asian woman for some reason.

- TECHNICAL -

Sega System C2 hardware

Main CPU : Motorola 68000 (@ 7.670442 Mhz)
Sound Chips : YM3438 (@ 7.670442 Mhz), SN76496 (@ 3.57954 Mhz), OKI6295 (@ 8 Khz)

Screen orientation : Horizontal
Video resolution : 320 x 224 pixels
Screen refresh : 60.00 Hz
Palette Colors : 64

Players : 2
Control : 8-way joystick
Buttons : 1

- TRIVIA -

The game's creators probably did not get permission from Namco or Nintendo to use the characters, since there are no copyright notices indicating otherwise. While 'Pockimon' is a misspelling of 'Pokemon', "Puckman" is "Pac-Man"'s original name in Japan.

Most of the sound effects and music were taken from "Ms. Pac-Man".

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