Is there a console version that is arcade perfect? If not which one is the closest. Thank you in advance.

Look for the Namco Museum series.

How about Ms. Pacman Maze Madness for the Dreamcast and I think other systems. You can play the arcade version however I do not know if it is perfect or not.

You can either go the Namco Museum option or the JAKKS Pacific plug-and-play controller.

You'd also get Galaga and Pole Position {with analog control[!]}, as well as Mappy and Xevious, with the latter choice.

I read a review of the Jakks one that said it's not arcade perfect. (I think the review was from www.retroblast.com) They said it was still good, but not an emulator. I'm not sure whether Namco Museum is an emulator or not. Reading some reviews it sounds like not.

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I still have this for my atari 7800, and also picked up Namco museum recently. I am confused about what exactly isn't arcade perfect about the different versions?

May I recommend Namco Museum Volume 3 for the PSX? To my knowledge, it is the only arcade "perfect" version out there with full TATE mode(tilting your TV to get optimum resolution).

The differences would be pretty minor and most people probably wouldn't be able to tell unless they used to play the arcade machine all the time and memorized patterns.

An emulator actually runs the code copied off the arcade board, so you know it's arcade perfect as long as it looks and sounds right. Anything that isn't running the original code would be virtually imposible to make exactly the same down to the ghost movement, etc.

I always figured they couldn't do a true emulation on Pac-Man games because the arcade screen was vertically oriented, whereas a television set/monitor is horizontally oriented (unless you set it on its side). Hence the score/credits info on the side of the screen.

The graphics can be made to fit the screen without affecting the gameplay. Pacman works perfectly in plenty of emulators, but for something like Namco Museum they may choose to do a port so they can put the score on the side or make "enhancements"

Pickup the GameBoy Advance Pac Man Collection.

Ms. Pac-Man is special. She's fun, she's cute...she swallows.