As everyone knows, Pac-Man is one of the most famous arcade games for its time, and some people still play it for fun.  Why was it so great then, and why can it still be good now?  Let’s analyze this game.

          Design: Pac-man is split into multiple levels where you need to gobble up white dots to score, while avoiding the evil ghosts that try to kill you.  While you will mostly be killed before then, you can play for an infinite amount of time.  With the game being unusually addicting, you could stay playing for hours and still not beat it.  While this is true in theory, if you make it to the 256th level, the right side becomes scrambled, making it impossible to move on.  You need to eat all the dots to move on, and it’s pretty easy the first few levels, but it gets harder each time you move forward.  There’s not really much to the design, just a bunch of levels to go through and that’s about it.

          Gameplay: What really shines is the Gameplay.  After all, that’s what got Pac-Man famous.  In the 2-D world you roam in, you can move horizontally and vertically with the same going for the ghosts that chase after you.  While gobbling the dots, you’ll come across bigger dots that turn each ghost blue, allowing you to eat them and gain points.  Your goal is to get every dot to move on to the next level, and you have few lives to go on, making it frustrating at times.  The learning curve is almost non-existent, meaning it won’t take long to get the basics.  Overall, Pac-Man is an addicting game and can pass the time if you’re bored and looking for something to do.

          Presentation:  Pac-Man has been moved from console to console for generations and the graphics are decent for their times.  Sound isn’t Pac-Man’s strong point, though, as the music is, for the most part, used constantly and, therefore, it gets boring after a while.  Once again, though, it’s a game worth playing if you’re bored and want to pass the time.

          Overall: Pac-Man is one of the most famous video-game characters in existence and it’s pretty clear why.  Fun, simple, addicting, and suspense are the elements of this time-traveler that has made him a smashing success!

 

Score: 8.9

 

 

Hey students,

We need you as students to be leaving comments. Do not be embarrassed about telling us your problems because we will never know who you are. Here are some questions that you guys might have that you are too embarrassed to ask:

1)Having trouble with a teacher…

2)An incident happened with my friend, and I’m afraid to tell someone because they might yell at me…

3)I like this boy but…

4)I like this girl but…

5)My friends are talking about me and I don’t like it…

So as you can see these are the basic problems that students have. Please do not be shy to ask us any questions or just to leave any silly comments.

                                                             -The Answermasters

                                                                           

                                                        

                                                                                                    

The next town hall meeting is Wednesday, the 26th. Every 6th, 7th, and 8th grader should dress in dress code. The dress code is a white colar shirt. Then wear a nice navy blue or black pants, if the girls want to wear a skirt that is blue and black that is okay. Also, the boys and girl can wear a nice pair of shoes. And that is all you need to wear.

One peaceful day at the ballpark, the Luigi Knights are going up against the Bowers Bombs. Everybody was doing good. Super Penguins team was in the lead with the game. In the 9th inning, All of a sudden the field got sunken down to the sea. “Where are we?” said Luigi “I believe we’re in a dome?” said Super Penguin. The field stopped and the door opened. “Welcome, We sea creatures are glad to have you.” “We do many activities that are fun for everyone.” “We work, cook, read…..” said the Sea Creature. “Do you do any physical activities?” said Luigi “I was geting to it.” “First, we fight indruders who try to hurt us.” “We do many sports but the one we like the most is baseball.” “We have our own baseball teams but its been boring versing the same team.” “That’s why we brought you!” “We want to verse a team that’s different then us.” “So what do you say, will you verse us.” said the sea creature “We’ll have to discuss this with everyone” said Super Penguin “What are we doing?” “Are we going to play against them?” “Don’t we have Bowsers team?” said Super Penguin. “I guess their not playing cause the sea creature said so?” said Luigi “We’re going to play you!” said Super Penguin “Good, We’ll have the field ready for you.” said the sea creature. They went up the tube to the field. They looked around and their was so many sea creatures screaming for the other team. “This is going to be very hard to beat.” said Luigi. “Look on the bright side, If we win I’ll be on the news!” said Super Penguin. “Welcome!” “This will be the best match of the sea year!” “At bat Baby Luigi!” said the sea creature. Baby Luigi charged up and when the ball came to him hit the ball out in the homerun zone. Everyone was screaming when Baby Luigi hit the ball. Next was Luigi. He charged up and hit the ball in the homerun zone. All nine people hit homeruns. They got three outs cause of Baby Luigi, Baby DK, and Dixie Kong. When the sea creatures were at bat, Baby DK got a staight strike(3 strikes in a row 3 times.) The Sea creatures were surprised that they got out quickly. The game was going on. In the 9th inning, Super Penguins team had 100. Since the sea creatures were losing, they cheated. They made a bet that if they hit a homerun, they get 100 points. Super Penguin accepted the challage. The sea creatures used a bat that hits a automatic homerun. When the ball came it went out of the ballpark. Super Penguin was silent.”OMG!” “They got a homerun!” said Super Penguin. The sea creatures got 100 points. When Super Penguins team was up, since Super Penguin was mad, Super Penguin went up to bat. They threw the ball,Super Penguin swung, and broke the bat. Wood was flying everywhere. The ball went so far that it broke the glass. Water was coming in the dome.”Well, there go’s our dome.” said the sea creature. Super Penguins team went up the tube quickly. When they got to the surface everyone was cheering for them.”How do they know we won?” said Super Penguin.

These past few weeks, the school shall be collecting pennies. They have already started and the class with the most pennies shall get a free ice-cream party!!!!! It is also for a good cause. The pennies go to charities that need money. The group in charge of the penny harvest shall decide where the money goes. You might be thinking, why pennies? They chose pennies because noone uses them and people have alot all over the house. So if you want to help, just bring any loose change to school and give it to your teacher. You will feel the satisfaction of doing something good. See ya later!

Signed, Shirly