![]() ![]() Pacar begins similarly to Head-On: control a green car around a maze of winding roads, collect red pellets, and avoid the blue car. Pacar expands upon Head On‘s simplistic formula – race cars, pellets, mazes, explosions – while also acknowledging the impact Pac-Man had on the maze genre and arcade games in general. Sounds like the misadventures of the half-eaten pizza creature we all know and love, but Head On actually emerged a year before Pac-Man‘s release and is considered one of the earliest maze games to exist. In Head On, you maneuver a white car around a maze, collect pellets, and avoid a red car that’s trying to crash into you. ![]() ![]() Pacar would probably be considered just another Pac-Man clone/rip-off – one of many to emerge in the early 1980s– if it didn’t bear some relation to Sega’s own 1979 arcade title, Head On. Disney’s “Cars” as rendered by Ralph Bakshi.
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