Posted on 05/06/2022 11:08:23 AM PDT by nickcarraway
How do they know Ms Pacman was a “miss” and not an “it” or really a “him”?
Until this moment, I was blissfully unaware of the existence of a World Video HoF.
Was there a requirement that the winner was to be a female? Does this explain why Mario never made it into the star studded lineup? No mention of pac MAN. No complaints yet about changing Ms Pac Man’s name to Ms Pac Humankind.
Oh boy!
*YAWN*
Shouldn’t that be Ms. Pacma’am?
Ms pacman made it possible for other computer generated females to advance by shttering the glass ceiling.
Pretty sad DDR got in younger than Ms Pac-Man. Why would it take so long? DDR also really burned out fast. MsPacMan, not so much.
Wow, surprised Ms Pac Man wasn’t in there already, if I was a leftist I’d blame sexism for it...
Ms Pacman and Galaga are probably two of the epitome of their genre’s...
Of course I am admittedly biased, I have an complete original full size arcade version of each of them (among others) in my basement
Place has only been in existence since 2015, but yes, as I stated in another post.... Ms Pacman and Galaga are both the epitome of their genre... I too was surprised Ms Pacman wasn’t already in....
Just look at Peach’s meteoric rise in Mario Kart and Mario Party.
So Ms. Pac Man is considered better than the original Pac Man according to vintage video game fans?
Two of the best ever for their time were Zelda: Ocarina of Time and Final Fantasy 7.
I have always found it to be superior, even back in the early 80s... I have always preferred Ms Pacman over regular Pacman..
Not that I didn’t like Pacman, but the same maze over and over and over to me just wasn’t as much fun... I have developed more respect for it as an old man, but honestly as a kid, Ms Pacman was by far my favorite of the Pac Man games... still is to this day.
In fact, Ms Pacman was originally designed to be an aftermarket upgrade to pacman to make it more fun, but the developers took a big check from the manufacturer and turned pacman into a girl, and walla.. Ms Pacman... can read about it here:
I lost track of how many quarters I went through to master Ms PacMan, Galaxian and Donkey King.🙄🤔😀
“Because of its design, Ms. Pac-Man still operated as an after-market add-on board–even during its production run. So Midway essentially sold a copy of Pac-Man every time they sold a copy of Ms. Pac-Man. In that way, Namco still got the same Pac-Man royalty on every unit of Ms. Pac-Man that sold.”
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“Every Ms. Pac-Man ever made has a Pac-Man board in it and a Ms. Pac-Man add-on, the same way Super Missile Attack was an add-on. If you were to remove that board, you’d get Pac-Man. Our intention was, once we went into production, that it would eventually be integrated onto one board, but things moved so fast that the entire [standalone] production run of Ms. Pac-Man was done with Pac-Man boards and Ms. Pac-Man enhancement kits.”
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So... technically, Ms. Pac-Man is transgendered
Defender
Battlezone
Astroids
Lunar lander
Galaga
Offroad
Zaxxon
Astro blaster
Joust
Digdug
Pole position
Moon patrol
Missle command
All great. And all playable on archive.org. or mame
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