10 Weirdest Video Game Ports You Won't Believe

6. Pac-Man (Neo Geo Pocket Color)

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Ever owned a Neo Geo? If you have, then we suspect your favorite hobbies include but are not limited to burning hundred dollar bills in front of the homeless. For some reason, SNK thought that a great way to get people to buy into this console being better than the competition was to sell it at twice the price (at least). prices have only gone up since then, because shock of shocks, not many folks owned one. And that goes double for the equally expensive handheld version, the Neo Geo Pocket Color.

And of course, as a rite of passage that all game console must go through at one point or another, it got its own port of pac man.

Pac Man can be found on every console under the sun. Mostly because it's a really easy game to port, even back then, but also slightly because it was the only IP that Atari had that people actually care about.

It was a decent enough port, but like with many of the PC ports of the game, barely anyone played it because so few people had the money for a Neo Geo Pocket Color.

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