Ms. Pac-Man (Video Game 1981)

This update to Pac-Man changed the character to a lady, added moving fruit, smarted monsters, cutscenes and more mazes.

Writer:

Steve Golson (creator)

Storyline

This update to Pac-Man changed the character to a lady, added moving fruit, smarted monsters, cutscenes and more mazes.

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Plot Keywords:

fruit | pac man | eating | ms. pac man | arcade game | 

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Taglines:

Introducing... the femme fatale of the game world.

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Genres:

Family

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Certificate:

Unrated

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

1981 (USA)

Also Known As:

Crazy Otto

Company Credits

Production Co:

General Computer (GCC), Midway Manufacturing Corporation

Technical Specs

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Trivia

Ms. Pac-Man was originally created by 2 programmers at General Computer Corporation who altered a Pac-Man board. The original name for the new game was Crazy Otto. General Computer Corporation sold the rights to Crazy Otto to Midway who changed the name to Ms. Pac-Man and distributed the game without Namco's consent. To avoid loss of other licenses and lawsuits, Midway turned over rights to Ms. Pac-Man to Namco in 1982.

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Connections

Featured in I Love the '80s: 1982 (2002)

User Reviews

One of the greatest video games of all time

I love Ms. Pac-Man. The original was too dark and seeing all of the levels were almost exactly the same at least by modern standards it is a little on the boring side. I actually got quite good at this game. One time though I made it up to 630,000 or so and the screen did something really weird. It flipped upside down but still showed me playing. I was killed and sense then I just never could get back up to that high score.

There is a trick where you can go through the ghosts when they turn their eyes around that you can go through them. I have done that a few times but I don't know how I did it. It is fun and while it is not my favorite video game it is so addictive. When I was a freshman in college I played this all the time. Well my studies suffered a little bit too. But this game takes me back to a day when you went out to play video games, Nintendos were not too widespread and games cost a quarter instead of up to $1.00. All I can say is this is a classic game, nearly immortal as far as games go. They were going to call this game Puc-Man but it was said it could be altered into a certain curse word.....