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CLUSTER TERMINAL-GAME-MAN · 11 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2009-12-22

Terminal Pac-Man games and ASCII tools

The cluster comprises terminal-based Pac-Man games, a terminal UI for the pacman package manager, an ASCII game engine, and an interactive fiction terminal title. Dated entries appear sporadically from 2009 through 2025, with three entries in July 2026; one member lacks a source date. Traction leaders are pacterm-bin, pacterm, and deriva, each at 0 stars.

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

DEC 2009: 1JUL 2020: 1JUN 2022: 1NOV 2025: 1MAR 2026: 1JUL 2026: 3AUG 2026: 2OCT 2026: 1
DEC 2009OCT 2026

Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.

Members by activity

Activity signals, not revenue.

Build origin · 2 hand-coded · 9 unlabelled

Operator · 1 hobby · 8 open source · 2 unlabelled

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 11 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01PacManRecomp9★10 days—hobbyDesktop game that recreates Pac-Man for NES on Windows with cheats, extras, and modding support using a user-provided ROM.
  2. 02pacterm-bin0★1 moliveopen sourceTerminal-based Pac-Man game.
  3. 03pacterm0★1 moliveopen sourceTerminal-based Pac-Man game.
  4. 04deriva0★2 moliveopen sourceInteractive fiction game for the terminal featuring ASCII art, colors, and player choices.
  5. 05pacman4console0★9 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceTerminal game that recreates classic Pac-Man across nine levels and includes a level editor.
  6. 06pacmate0★1 moliveopen sourceInteractive terminal UI wrapper for the pacman package manager.
  7. 07termcraft0★6 mostaleliveopen sourceTerminal-based 2D sandbox survival game where players explore and build in a text interface.
  8. 08python-scrap_engine0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceDeveloper game engine for building 2D ASCII games that run in the terminal.
  9. 09lazynpm0★6 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceTerminal UI that gives developers an interactive interface for running package-manager commands and viewing their output.
  10. 10Pac-Man0★unknownliveWeb game that recreates the classic Pac-Man gameplay.
  11. 11PAC·3D0★unknownlive3D version of the classic Pac-Man arcade game playable in a web browser.

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