Title: Ms. Pac-Man / Ms. Pac Attack / Ms. Pac-Man Plus / Ms. Pacman Champion Edition / Super Zola Pac Gal / Pac-Gal
Manufacturer: Midway
Year: 1981
Hardware:
Main Processors: Z80 (8-bit; 3 MHz)
Sound Hardware: Custom (Namco)
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Description
The 2nd title in
the Pac-Man series. The gameplay is very similar to Pac-Man with
the main differences being that the main
character is female & the mazes are slightly different. Like
Pac-Man, this game also has many clones & versions. Ms.
Pac-Man Champion Edition, a version with hearts instead of dots,
is a hack from 1995. Ms. Pac Attack is another hack
that has mazes with different colors.
| The Pac-Man series Pac-Man /
PuckMan / Ghost Muncher / Hangly-Man / New Puck-X (1980) |
The following is quoted from Alliance Corporation Game History Database
Revision 2 (also known as the MAME history.dat file):
"When Midway needed a sequel to the greatest selling video
game of all time, Namco was not yet ready to deliver it yet, as
Super Pacman was still in development. Therefore, Midway opted to
design the sequel in-house, and Ms. Pacman was born."
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Emulation Status
Emulators: MAME
Playable: Yes
Sound: Yes
Benchmark system: Intel Celeron - 433 MHz; S3 GX2 4 Mb AGP Videocard; Soundblaster 16; Win98; MAME v0.36b16
Benchmark results: 60 fps with triple buffer on, vsync off, no frameskip; full screen interlaced mode
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Screenshots
Screenshots on the left are from the MAME emulator, as appeared in the original 1981 version. |
Screenshots on the right are from the EmuDX emulator which enhanced the original game, 19 years later (while maintaining the original program code). |
