Ms. Pac-Man | |
Developer(s) | Midway |
Publisher(s) | Midway Arcade Atari Atari 2600 Atari 5200 Atari 7800 Tengen NES Sega Genesis Williams Super Nintendo Namco Game Boy Game Gear |
Release date | Arcade: 1981 (NA) Atari 2600: 1982 (NA) Atari 5200: 1983 (NA) Atari 7800: 1986 (NA) |
Genre | Maze |
Mode(s) | Single player 1-2 players alternating |
Age rating(s) | N/A Atari 2600 |
Platform(s) | Arcade Atari 2600 Apple II Atari 8 Bit Atari 5200 Commodore 64 Nintendo Entertainment System Game Boy Game Gear Game Boy Color Game Boy Advance As Part of: Namco Museum Template:Infobox/input |
Credits | Soundtrack | Codes | Walkthrough |
Ms. Pac-Man is an arcade game released in 1981. Unlike its predecessor Pac-Man, this game was not developed by Namco, but by Midway through an outside company called General Computer Corporation (GCC) that created this game as a hack of Pac-Man that they intended to release as Crazy Otto. After the game became wildly popular, Midway and GCC undertook a brief legal battle concerning royalties, but because the game was accomplished without Namco's consent, both companies eventually turned over the rights of Ms. Pac-Man to Namco, fearing a lawsuit. Nonetheless, Ms. Pac-Man was the first of a series of unauthorized sequels that eventually led to the termination of the licensing agreement between Namco and Midway
Gameplay
The game features four different screens and moving fruit, whereas the original Pac-Man had only one screen and stationary fruit. (The Tengen and Williams versions released for the NES, the Genesis, and the Super Nintendo had a total of 36 different screens.) The Atari 2600 version has four skill levels that let you choose how many ghosts you wish to contend with.
The player guides Ms. Pac-Man through the mazes eating dots and avoiding the ghosts that want to devour her. Use the power pellets to turn the tables on the ghosts and eat them, and escape from one side of the maze to the other by using the tunnels.
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