Max wrote: The classic machine may have different graphics than any modern machine. These could be worse (which might make you think, "Eww, people played games with those graphics?" -- but at least illustrates The Way It Actually Was). They could actually be better, too. In the case of vector graphics, ther is no modern substitute. In the case of the PERQ (which I assume is where you got the PacMan example) the resolution is very high, though it's monochrome IIRC. You may say, "But my PC has higher resolution than that!" That's only true with PC hardware of the last few years, I suspect. The game itself may also use the graphics in a creative way, so that even if it's "just PacMan" it may have a certain appearance that would be hard to reproduce on a modern machine, and makes the game an individual creation. Good games on the black-and-white Macs have this quality (e.g., Dark Castle with its sharp yet "cartoon-like" graphics). Of course, if you really are lucky than the machine will be the one the game was written for. Does an actual Pac-Man arcade unit count as a classic computer? Even a historic port of PacMan (say, to the Atari 5200 -- the 2600 version might repel more visitors than it attracts) is interesting in its own way. And moving away from PacMan, I can think of a large number of games that only exist on classic machines. So playing them on the original hardware may be your only option. I'm surprised you didn't ask the other question -- How can PacMan on a modern machine be any different than the original version? It can't be much better (it either adds minor features which don't add to the gameplay, or it is a faithful reproduction -- if it's very different, then it's not PacMan anymore). It may be worse (because it doesn't have the code that the original uses). -- Derek

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