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Pac-Man

1984 · Namco · NES · music by Toshio Kai, arranged by Junko Ozawa

  1. 01 RollsOut now▶ Play

    All three tunes as notes falling onto a keyboard per voice — mute one, slow it down.

    Pac-Man as piano rolls
  2. 02 SheetsOut now▶ Read

    The same three tunes as scores, read bar by bar — every note out of the cartridge.

    The score of Game StartThe score of FailThe score of Coffee Break

Eat every dot in the maze before the four ghosts catch you — Namco’s 1980 arcade game on the Famicom, and three short tunes.

Nothing here was transcribed by ear: every note was read out of the cartridge and is played by an emulated NES sound chip — its two pulse waves, the only voices this music uses, each on a keyboard of its own.

The music and the game belong to their composers and publishers; this site only shows how the cartridge plays it, for learning.