Ms. PAC-MAN [ms pacman] GAME PLAY

The gameplay is very similar to that of Pac-Man. The player earns points by eating pellets and avoiding ghosts (contact with one causes Ms. Pac-Man to lose a life). Eating an energizer (or “power pellet”) causes the ghosts to turn blue, allowing them to be eaten for extra points. Bonus fruits can be eaten for increasing point values, twice per round. As the rounds progress, the speed increases, and energizers generally lessen the duration of the ghosts’ vulnerability, eventually stopping altogether.

• The game has four mazes that appear in different color schemes and alternate after each of the game’s intermissions are seen. The pink maze appears in levels one and two; the light blue maze appears in levels three, four, and five; the brown maze appears in levels six to nine; and the dark blue maze appears in levels 10 to 13. After level 13, the maze configurations alternate every fourth level between the third and fourth maze.
• The first, second, and fourth mazes have two sets of warp tunnels, as opposed to only one in the original maze.
• The walls have a solid color rather than an outline, which makes it easier for a novice player to see where the paths around the mazes are.
• The orange ghost is called Sue, rather than Clyde; her color was later changed to purple in Pac-Land to differentiate her.
• The ghosts’ behavioral patterns are different, and include semi-random movement, which prevents the use of patterns to clear each round. Blinky (red) and Pinky (pink) move randomly in the first several seconds of each level, until the first reversal. Inky (cyan) and Sue (orange) still use the same movement patterns from the previous game to their respective corners, again until the first reversal.
• Instead of appearing in the center of the maze, the fruits bounce around the maze, entering and (if not eaten) leaving through the warp tunnels. Once all fruit has been encountered, they appear in random sequence for the rest of the game, starting on the eighth round; a 5000-point banana can be followed by a 100-point pair of cherries, for example.
• When Ms. Pac-Man makes contact with a ghost and dies, she spins around, or as the back of the flier says, “she dramatically swoons and falls” rather than folding in on herself as the original Pac-Man did.
• The three intermissions follow the developing relationship between the original Pac-Man and Ms. Pac-Man (from when they first meet to having a stork drop off their baby). The latter served as the basis for Baby Pac-Man and is referenced in Jr. Pac-Man.
• The slowdown applied to the ghosts in the warp tunnels only applies for the first three rounds in this game.
• The sound effects and music are all new.

MS PACMAN [Ms Pac-Man] Game Release

Reporter Patrick Goldstein of the Los Angeles Times reported that the game made its public debut on February 3, 1982 “in typical showbusiness style at a press conference at the Castle Park Entertainment Center in Sherman Oaks.” He noted that “[t]he game is expected to appear in many video arcades during the next few weeks.”

Atari, Inc. released versions for the Atari 2600, Atari 5200, Atari 7800 and Atari 8-bit computers. There were also versions for the VIC-20, Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, IBM PC compatibles, Apple II and TI-99/4A released under the Atarisoft label. Unlike Pac-Man, most home versions of Ms. Pac-Man include all three intermission screens from the arcade game. The Atari 2600 rendition of Pac-Man was infamous for its flashing ghosts, while the 2600 port of Ms. Pac-Man had minimal flicker.

A tabletop version of Ms. Pac-Man was released in 1983 by Coleco. The unit was shaped like a miniature arcade cabinet, was controlled with a small built-in joystick, and used a multicolor vacuum fluorescent display. It was a runner-up for Stand-Alone Game of the Year at the 1983 Arcade Awards held in January 1984.

Ms. Pac-Man has been re-released into new arcade cabinets since. In 2001, Namco released an arcade board with both Ms. Pac-Man and Galaga in honor of the 20th anniversary of both games with the subtitle “20 Year Reunion / Class of 1981”. It also has Pac-Man as a hidden bonus game. The later 25th Anniversary Edition in 2005 allows all three games to be selected on the main menu. As part of Pac-Man‘s 30th anniversary, Ms. Pac-Man is one of the games included on the home version of Pac-Man’s Arcade Party arcade machine. Pac-Man’s Arcade Party was succeeded in 2018 by Pac-Man’s Pixel Bash, which added 19 games to the existing roster, but Ms. Pac-Man was only available if the machine was set to Free Play.

In June 2020, Tastemakers’ Arcade1Up decided to announce that Ms. Pac-Man would finally be added to their lineup of 3/4 scale arcade cabinets. The unit will also contain a few other Bandai Namco arcade games, including Galaxian, Pac-Mania and Pac-Man Plus.

Additionally, a standalone, battery-powered version of the game released by Jakks Pacific can be plugged directly into a television. Ms. Pac-Man and four other games (Galaga, Mappy, Xevious, and Pole Position) are included in a self-contained joystick hand controller.

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