Pac-Man Collection

Pac-Man Collection (パックマンコレクション) is a compilation of four Pac-Man games, released in 2001 and 2002 for the Game Boy Advance: Pac-Man, Pac-Mania and Pac-Man Arrangement, all ports of arcade games which follow the essence of classic Pac-Man gameplay; and Pac-Attack, a falling-block puzzle game akin to Tetris originally released on the Sega Genesis and Super NES.

Gameplay
Due to the restrictive screen resolution of the Game Boy Advance, the player is given the choice of two methods for viewing the playfield in Pac-Man: scroll mode, where the playfield automatically scrolls to follow Pac-Man, or full-screen, where the entire playfield is displayed in miniature form. This feature was also used with Ms. Pac-Man in Namco Museum released earlier the same year.

With the exception of Pac-Attack, the player can alter various settings such as lives, difficulty and bonus life counters, similar to the DIP switch-enabled settings in the original arcade versions. Hints are available for each game.

This release is notable for the inclusion of Pac-Man Arrangement, a remixed, full-color update of Pac-Man with new power-ups and gameplay features. The game was released in arcades by Namco in 1996 as part of Namco Classic Collection Vol. 2, but had never been ported to a console or handheld prior to this release.

The versions of all of the games on Pac-Man Collection remove all multiplayer features from the original games and the version of Pac-Attack featured in this game omits the versus mode.

Reception
Pac-Man Collection received generally positive reviews but was criticized for cutting out pieces of the music and sound effects, for inconsistent problems with both screen options for Pac-Man, and for lacking a save facility, so players' high scores cannot be stored in the games. The game sold 2,940,000 copies, making it the 9th best-selling Game Boy Advance game of all time.

In the United States alone, Pac-Man Collection's Game Boy Advance version sold 1.6 million copies and earned $25 million by August 2006. During the period between January 2000 and August 2006, it was the 6th highest-selling game launched for the Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS or PlayStation Portable in that country.

Wii U Virtual Console release
It was released on the Wii U Virtual Console on June 11, 2014 along with the Famicom version of Pac-Land in North America and Japan (and one day later in Europe and Australia) to celebrate Pac-Man's addition into Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U. This release of Pac-Man Collection has gained the ability to save high scores with the Wii U Virtual Console's "Restore Point" feature.