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Ms. Pac-Man |
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Manufacturer:
Midway Year: 1981 Class: Wide Release Genre: Labyrinth/Maze Type: Videogame Monitor:
Number of Simultaneous Players: 1 Maximum number of Players: 2 Gameplay: Alternating Control Panel Layout: Single Player Controls:
Sound: Amplified Mono (one channel) |
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DescriptionMs. Pac-Man must eat all the dots in a maze in order to advance to the next stage. She's chased by killer ghosts but she can eat them while powered up after eating one of four large dots. Bonus points are awarded for eating the fruits and snacks that appear and wander the maze.Know anything more about this game? Cabinet InformationOn most Ms Pac-Man 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 (sticker-art) Ms. Pac-Man 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 Ms. Pac-Man 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.ConversionA variety of different speed-up options have been made available to enhance the game. These range from simple ROM swaps to the addition of sub-boards, hacks or custom circuitry.Game IntroductionThe 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.Hacks
MiscellaneousWWW: http://www.gamearchive.com/articles/ClassicNews/1983/VideoGames2-83DrVideo2.htmWWW: http://www.geocities.com/arcadeclassics.geo/MSPACMAN.html Play a JAVA emulated version of the game by visiting http://web.utanet.at/nkehrer/JMsPacman.html Scarcity in collections (VAPS.org)Very Common - There are 419 known instances of this game owned by one of our 900 members. Of these, 347 of them are original dedicated machines, 23 of them are conversions in which game circuit boards have been placed in another game cabinet, and 49 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.Of the 42,694 video games (3,154 unique) tracked by the Video Game Preservation Society, this game ranks a 100 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most commonly seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on ownership records. - There are 17 VAPS members currently looking for this game. Rarity is NOT necessarily an indication of value. Some common games show up as very rare here because collectors don't want them (they are common because arcade operatos might be sitting on tons of them in warehouses), while some fairly scarce games are grabbed by collectors every time they show up. Additionally, some games made in the last 5 years are still making money for operators and are thus not yet affordable to the typical collector. For a clue to value, compare how many people have this game vs. how many people want this game and then click on the eBay links to help determine an accurate price range. TechnicalThe game use a Z80 microprocessor and a Namco 3-channel PSG for sounds.TriviaThis game, originally called Crazy Otto, was an elaborate enhancement of Pac-Man 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 Ms. Pac-Man. 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 Midway's other "unauthorized" titles such as Pac-Man Plus, Baby Pac-Man, and Jr. Pac-Man.Despite being released in the early 1980's, the game continues to retain its popularity among players. Machines can still be found almost everywhere including most arcades or amusement centers in the United States. In 2000, Ms. Pac-Man was selected as the spokes-game character for the "National Alliance of Breast Cancer Organizations" ( http://www.nabco.org/ ). The character now wears a pink ribbon in addition to her traditional pink bow. eBay ListingsClick here to automatically search eBay's Arcade, Jukebox, and Pinball categories for the Ms. Pac-Man Videogame machine and items related to it.Click here to automatically search eBay's Arcade, Jukebox, and Pinball categories for machines and parts made by Midway. Alternatively, check out the IAM/KLOV custom report of the hottest coin-op machines on eBay, powered by Ace.com (updated throughoutthe day).
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