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Freemium Field Test: Just pay for Pac-Man 256's unlimited credits and get it over with

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<p>Free-to-play games often look appealing, but it’s difficult to know at a glance whether the business model is insidious and fun ruining, or reasonable and worth pumping a few bucks into. With Freemium Field Test (http://www.macworld.com/column/freemium-field-test/), we’ll take a recent free-to-play iOS game, put it through its paces, and let you know if it’s really worth your time (and money). </p><p>It’s been an unexpected time of resurgence for good ol’ Pac-Man on the App Store—assuming you can ignore the terrible Pixels movie game (http://www.macworld.com/article/2973681/ios-apps/were-this-summers-blockbuster-movie-games-any-good.html). Pac-Man Championship Edition arrived in July, and while the iOS version arrived a few years later than the original console incarnation, it put a fun, modern twist (http://www.macworld.com/article/2976018/apps/pac-man-championship-edition-dx-evolves-the-classic-formula-and-puts-it-into-overdrive.html) on the classic arcade design. </p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2984902/ios-apps/freemium-field-test-just-pay-for-pac-man-256s-unlimited-credits-and-get-it-over-with.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>

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