Ms. Pac-Man - Videogame by Midway Manufacturing Co. (2024)

Game Introduction

The game is a lot like Pac-Man except that it has four different mazes that change once every two to four screens instead of just one maze throughout the entire game. Also the fruits and prizes walk around the maze instead of appearing at the same spot in the middle of the maze. These bonus items include cherries, strawberries, peaches, pretzels, apples, pears and bananas.

Ms. Pac-Man KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score:4.02(26 votes)

Personal Impressions and Technical Impressions each account for half of the total score.Within the Personal Impressions category, Like carries a little more weight than the other factors.

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Hacks

ULLIIBlob MuncherI Changes Ms. PacMan into a blob.LIIMr. PacManI Lets you play as the original PacMan character.LIIMs. PacMan 2600I Changes the graphics to make it more like the Atari 2600.LIIMs. PacMan NES MazesI Changes the maze to make it look more like the NES version.LIIMs. PacMan RenaissanceI Changes the graphics to make them look better.LIIMs. PacMortemI A grusome hack of the original.LIIMs. PacRumbleI Makes the mazes harder.LIIMs. YakManI Characters to make them look more like llamas and sheep.LIISnowy Day Ms. PacManI Has a Christmas theme.UL

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Trivia

This game, originally called ICrazy OttoI, was an elaborate enhancement of IPacManI created by a small company called General Computer Corporation. GCC pitched the title to Bally Midway who bought it and, after some minor changes, changed the game into IMs. PacManI. Bally Midway ultimately turned over the rights to Namco in an effort to appease them and not lose the licensing rights to future titles. Namco did ultimately stop licensing games to Bally Midway due to the release of Midways other unauthorized titles such as IPacMan PlusI, IBaby PacManI, and IJr. PacManI.PDespite being released in the early 1980s, the game continues to retain its popularity among players. Machines can still be found almost everywhere including most arcades or amusem*nt centers in the United States.PIn 2000, Ms. PacMan was selected as the spokesgame character for the National Alliance of Breast Cancer Organizations httpwww.nabco.org . The character now wears a pink ribbon in addition to her traditional pink bow.

Cabinet Information

On most Ms PacMan cabinets, the side art and front art is painted on. However, on the last production run of the game, adhesive sticker art was used instead of paint. This leads many to believe that legitimate stickerart IMs. PacManI cabinets are bootlegged or use reproduction art, when in fact they often do not. Incidentally, the most commonly available reproduction set of side art and front art for IMs. PacManI was created using the later sticker version of the cabinet as a template. Therefore, the reproductions look slightly out of place when applied to older painted cabinets, due to the fact that they use deeper colors and have slightly different art.

Conversion

A variety of different speedup options have been made available to enhance the game. These range from simple ROM swaps to the addition of subboards, hacks or custom circuitry.

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Ms. Pac-Man Census

There are 14,781 members of theVideo Arcade Preservation Society /Vintage Arcade Preservation Society,9,485 whom participatein our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale.Census data currently includes 164,666machines (6,908 unique titles).

Very Common -There are 1,885 known instances of this machine owned byMs. Pac-Man collectorswho are active members.Of these, 1,590 of them are original dedicated machines. 81 of them are conversions in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet. 205 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

For Sale -There are 82 active VAPS members with aMs. Pac-Man machines for sale.There are 14 active VAPS members with aMs. Pac-Man circuit boards for sale.

Wanted - Very Popular-There are 50 active VAPS members currentlylooking for Ms. Pac-Man.There is one active VAPS member looking for aMs. Pac-Man circuit board set.

This game ranks a 100on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common)in popularity based on census ownership records.

This game ranks a 73on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common)in popularity based on census want list records.

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Technical

The game use a Z80 microprocessor and a Namco 3channel PSG for sounds.

Legacy

1. Pac-Man
2. Ms. Pac-Man
3. Super Pac-Man
4. Pac-Man Plus
5. Baby Pac-Man
6. Jr. Pac-Man
8. Pac-Land
9. Pac-Mania
10. Pac-Man V R

Manuals

Foto-Finder® (Books)

1. Arcade TreasuresKurtz(ISBN 088740619X)Page: 109;Color photo
2. The Encyclopedia of Arcade Video GamesKurtz(ISBN 0764319256)Page: 123;Color photoPrice guide: No
3. Arcade FeverSellers(ISBN 0762409371)Page: 78;Color photo
4. Encyclopedia of Arcade Video GamesKurtz(ISBN 0764319256)Page: 123;Color photo

Additional References(logged in members often see more)

1. 3D Model (External): Reproduction arts
2. 3D Model (External): Cabaret
3. 3D Model (External): Dedicated

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