Pac-Man

[Anonymous No.2018719]

What's the proper way to play this game? It has a lot of options for changing the gameplay.

For example, turbo. Do you leave it off or use it?

Pac-Man thread. Talk about Pac-Man games.

What's the minimum high score for someone to get to be able to say 'I am good at Pac-Man'? Any tips for playing Pac-Man?

[Anonymous No.2018738]

>What's the minimum high score for someone to get to be able to say 'I am good at Pac-Man'?

3,333,360

[Anonymous No.2019273]

[Anonymous No.2019728]

Why was Ms. Pac-Man made when Pac-Man was already meant to appeal to females?

[Anonymous No.2019732]

Pac-Man uncontrollably guzzling cum.

[Anonymous No.2019780]

>>2019728
>when Pac-Man was already meant to appeal to females?
Maybe Ms. Pac-man was made to appeal males, just saying

[Anonymous No.2019789]

>>2019728
Ms. Pac-Man was an extended version/bugfix, intended to increase the audience and basically double the sales one could get out of an arcade. It was basically PAC-MAN: REMASTERED

[Anonymous No.2019807]

>>2019728
>>2019789
But wasn't it an unauthorized version? Wasn't it made by someone else, but Namco bought it later? So it would be an improved version yes, but wouldn't have originally doubled anyone's sales. Apologies for my Pac-ignorance.

[Anonymous No.2019843]

>God Tier
Jr Pac-Man
Pac-Mania

>Great Tier
Ms. Pac-Man
Pac & Pal
Pac-Man World 2
Pac-Man Arrangement

>Good Tier
Pac-Man
Pac-Man World Rally
Super Pac-Man

>Alright Tier
Pac-Man World
Baby Pac-Man
Pac-Land
Pac-In-Time

>Meh Tier
Pac-Attack
Pac-Man 2: The New Adventures
Pac-Man World 3

>Bad Tier
Professor Pac-Man
Ghostly Adventures

[Anonymous No.2020497]

>>2019807
No, Midway was licensed to distribute Pac-Man in America, so they made a bunch of alternate versions behind Namco's back to maximize profits.

[Anonymous No.2021205]

>>2019843
I like it, but I would probably put Baby PAC Man in good tier. I played it for the first time at PRGE and actually had a lot of fun.

[Anonymous No.2021239]

>>2019728
>>2019807
>>2020497

All of this is right.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ms._Pac-Man

Ms. Pac-Man was originally conceived as an enhancement kit for Pac-Man called Crazy Otto, created by programmers employed at the General Computer Corporation (GCC).[4] While Crazy Otto was under development, GCC settled a lawsuit with Atari over their Missile Command conversion kit Super Missile Attack. Part of the settlement terms barred GCC from selling future conversion kits without consent from the original game manufacturer.

Rather than scrapping Crazy Otto entirely, the programmers decided to show it to Midway, Namco's American distributor of Pac-Man. Midway had become impatient in waiting for Namco to release its next Pac-Man game (which would be Super Pac-Man), and were enthusiastic that such a game had come to their attention. They bought the rights to Crazy Otto, changed the sprites to fit the Pac-Man universe, renamed the game Ms. Pac-Man, and released it into arcades.[5]

Shortly before release, Stan Jarocki of Midway stated that Ms. Pac-Man was conceived in response to the original Pac-Man being "the first commercial videogame to involve large numbers of women as players" and that it is "our way of thanking all those lady arcaders who have played and enjoyed Pac-Man."[6] The game was later awarded the Certificate of Merit as runner-up for Coin-Op Game of the Year at the 1982 Arcade Awards held in January 1983.[7]

[Anonymous No.2022672]

>What's the proper way to play this game?
With an arcade stick, even a cheap one.

[Anonymous No.2022681]

The rare Tengen NES version of Ms Pac Man was Identical

You play where you can go faster by holding down the A button. You just do.
You don't feel good about yourself, but you just do.

[Anonymous No.2022690]

The game is sort of easy with the regular mazes if you use pac booster. If you play on the giant or strange mazes, however, the increased difficulty somewhat justifies using the booster.

Also noteworthy is the unusual inclusion of co-op. This is a pretty entertaining game to play in simultaneous multiplayer. It probably won't pose too much of a challenge, however.

[Anonymous No.2023540]

>>2019843
>Pac-Mania
>Not ridiculously boring and slow tier
>Ms. Pac-Man and Arrangement in anything except Elder God Tier
>No Ms Pac-Man Maze Madness anywhere to be seen
List disregarded.

[Anonymous No.2023621]

>>2019843
Needs Pac-Man Vs. in Great tier.

[Anonymous No.2023624]

>>2019732
Edgy: The Card Game

[Anonymous No.2025948]

>>2019843
Great Tier

[Anonymous No.2025951]

>>2019843
Pac-Man World 2 is so good holy shit.
Thinking of that game is pure nostalgia crack for me

[Anonymous No.2026021]

>>2025948
I seem to remember this...i might be confusing it with Pac World 2

[Anonymous No.2026063]

What the hell was the point of making 16-bit ports of Mrs. Pac and Original?

[Anonymous No.2026068]

>>2026063
Same reason we get HD ports and whatnot these days, I'd imagine. Yes money, but also a way to play our favorite games on new hardware.

[Anonymous No.2026115]

>>2026063
the Tengen ones weren't bare-bones ports.

[Anonymous No.2027770]

>>2021239
This.

Ms. Pac-Man is infinitely better than Pac-Man in every way. It has bugfixes, better AI, and is released on arcades and compilations instead of regular Pac-Man all the time.

[Anonymous No.2027932]

>>2019843
>Baby Pac-Man

I'm under the assumption that the folks over at Bally were chugging drug cocktails while making this because how in the holy mother of fuck did anyone think an arcade game/pinball hybrid was a good idea?

In short, it should have been aborted

[Anonymous No.2027965]

>>2027932
how the heck is that even supposed to work?

[guy you replied to No.2027972]

>>2027965
From Wikipedia

> In contrast to earlier games in the series, Baby Pac-Man's maze starts with no energizers. Instead, there are two vertical chutes at the bottom edge of the screen, which suspend video play and transfer the game to the pinball table when the player travels down either of them.

>The pinball section operates as a traditional pinball game in which the player hits targets with a metal ball using two button-operated flippers. The player may earn energizers, gain new fruit bonuses, and increase tunnel speed, all used in the video mode. If the player fails to keep the ball in play, the game resumes on the video screen, but with the chutes closed. The player must then either gobble all remaining dots or be caught by a ghost in order to reopen the chutes. The game ends when the player runs out of lives

[Anonymous No.2027995]

>>2027972

Where in the state of Illinois can I play this ridiculous game? I need it in my life.

[Anonymous No.2028437]

>>2027770
You're off. Mrs. Pac is treated as a premium, hardly included and original Pac is shoved onto every compilation under the sun.