Caterpillar Releases PAC-MAN as the Ninth Cat Trial Video

PAC-MAN powers up with services

PAC-MAN is celebrating its 40th anniversary and Caterpillar is celebrating the milestone in an epic fashion with The Cat Trial 9: PAC-MAN. With the help of skilled operators, the team at Caterpillar built a life-sized game board using the latest Cat machines, attachments and technology.

The players (including Cat customers, expert operators and gamers) used remote controls to operate the giant PAC-MAN and the ghosts. Just like every jobsite, they found a challenge waiting around every corner. Luckily, they were able to power up with Cat Services — from FitFleet Agreements, to field service, to the Cat App and financing options from Cat Financial.

Game-board facts

• Cat Grade 3D technology was used to dig precise game-board
• Cat machines used to prep the field: D6, D6XE, D8T, D9T, D11, 825K & 773G Water Wagon
• Cat machines equipped with Cat Grade 3D used to build game-board: 336, 323, D6XE, 150
• Additional machines: 972M, 950GC, CS56, 259D3, 308 w/TR Bucket
• 70 man-hours to dig the actual game-board
• 6,292 meters of cut / fill dirt to dig the maze and berm / 5,300 tons of dirt
• 1% grade from top right to lower left for drainage. That means the top of the game-board is about 3.5’ taller than the bottom
• 4’ Height of the walls inside the game-board
• 162.4’ x 180.4’ dimensions of the actual game-board (Outside the berm 246.4’ x 264.4’)
• It’s 19,040% of the original scale of the classic arcade screen

Game-Play Facts

• The characters were five Cat 236D3 Remote Controlled Skid Steer Loaders from The Cat Rental Store
• The ‘Power Pellets’ were the following Cat Services: FitFleet Agreements, field servicing, Cat App and Cat Financial
• The ‘Fruit Bonuses’ were Cat Part Boxes: Fruit is how PAC-MAN gets more life, the same way parts give Cat equipment more lives

Source: Cateripillar