Pac-Maze (パックメイズ, Pac-Maze), also stylized PAC-MAZE, is a stage in Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS.
The stage depicts the traditional Pac-Man maze as a set of platforms. Blinky, Pinky, Inky, and Clyde appear and move around the stage in their 8-bit forms, and cause damage to whoever they come into contact with. As such, players can toss opponents into the ghosts to perform combos.
Pac-Dots and Bonus Fruit appear on this stage and can be consumed by touching them for points; Pac-Dots yield 1 point, while all Bonus Fruit yield 10. Pac-Dots reappear fairly frequently and in large quantities; Bonus Fruit appear rarely and one at a time, disappearing quickly if not consumed. When a player collects 100 points a Power Pellet appear somewhere on the stage, blinking between white and the activating player's color. A maximum of 10 uncollected Power Pellets can be on-screen at once; collecting 100 points in this state has no effect. Pointers above the Power Pellets indicate a player's most recently-appeared Power Pellet. Occasionally, a generic Power Pellet will appear on the stage that can be consumed by any player; these blink between white and black and do not have any pointer above them.
A player's Power Pellet can be destroyed by opponents' attacks, preventing them from obtaining it. Destroying another player's Power Pellet grants 20 points. It is possible to destroy one's own Power Pellet or generic Power Pellets with projectiles or attacks with disjointed hitboxes, but destroying a generic Power Pellet is only worth 10 points.
Only Pac-Dots and Bonus Fruit provided by the stage count towards the 100-point total; Pac-Man's moves Power Pellet and Bonus Fruit do not.
Pac-Man under the effect of a Power Pellet, as well as a Ghost turned blue.
When a player collects a Power Pellet they start flashing and gains a temporary x1.7 boost to their attack power. The ghosts on the screen of a player under the effect of a Power Pellet become blue and vulnerable; other players see the ghosts normally and can still be damaged by them.
Touching the ghosts while under the effect of the Power Pellet makes them disappear, leaving only their eyes behind: once destroyed, the ghost flees from the stage, later returning fully regenerated; however they will still be blue and vulnerable if the player is still under the effect of the Power Pellet. When the player's Power Pellet is about to wear off, ghosts blink between blue and white.
When a ghost is consumed, a point value appears like in Pac-Man; however, the point value is merely aesthetic. Consuming the first ghost gives 200 points, then 400, then 800, then all subsequent eaten ghosts yield 1600.
The Power Pellet in Pac-Man's move Power Pellet does not provide the same bonus as the stage's Power Pellets, preventing him from eating any of the ghosts without using the stage-specific Power Pellets. Despite involving
