MAME ROW #160 - Ms. Pac-Man

[IanDaemon]

Did Ladybug win yet? XP

I managed to get 11,610 before I found out that I could wait and the letters would be worth more points. I don't have a screenshot, because I can't figure out the function keys on this Bluetooth keyboard. :(

[obsidianspider]

This week's winner is Ms. Pac-Man

[IanDaemon]

Ms. Pac-Man is cool. It's so classic. Around here it's the arcade cocktail cabinet game.

[mitu]

Got to 22120 so far.

[IanDaemon]

I'm getting better (12,970), but still nowhere near your score. (How can I shrink the screenshot in my posts without additional software? Are height and width tags available?)

OK, I downloaded the pic and used a Windows application to crop & resize the photo. It'd still be nice to do this either from RA or the forum...hmm.

"I'm more than Pac-Man with a bow!"
https://www.youtube .com/watch?v=ypsf6qHI7vc

P.S.
Thanks @mitu . I used some of your config advice from an unrelated post today and I couldn't find a way to PM/DM you so I'm including this comment.

[IanDaemon]

19,130

[IanDaemon]

By the way, I'm using these settings. I'm just not good.

[AndersHP]

15,580 is as far as I'll get this time..
Looks like a win for @mitu ? :)

By the way, a little random fun-fact from my weekend. My wife and I played Trivial Pursuit and twice I got "pacman" questions; one was something like "which classic arcadegame inspired labyrinths for mice in laboratories" and the other "what video game had opponents named blinky, inky, pinky and clyde?" :)

[obsidianspider]

MAME ROW #161 is live!

[IanDaemon]

Ladybug is cool for requiring no buttons and simply being a strategic maze chase. Jr. Pac-Man is novel for the scrolling screen..

[VictimRLSH]

@IanDaemon said in MAME ROW #160 - Ms. Pac-Man:

Ladybug is cool for requiring no buttons and simply being a strategic maze chase. Jr. Pac-Man is novel for the scrolling screen..

Have you played the Atari 2600 port? A remarkable achievement considering the system constraints.

[IanDaemon]

@victimrlsh I just played some Hyper Pacman (by Semicom) which I thought was only a Pac-Man (by Namco) clone, but I think it's actually cooler. It's Pac-Man, BUT the mazes are much different, you can collect a helmet which allows you to shoot the ghosts (what?), and you get "shoes with wings" that allow you to jump over the ghosts. There's probably more odd pickups, but I just played once and then wrote this. I love oddball stuff. And it's two-player simultaneous! (I thought Pac-Man Arrangement was the only two-player simultaneous arcade Pac-Man game.)
https://bootleggames.fandom.com/wiki/Hyper_Pacman

(Hyper PacMan 2 [sequel by a different Korean company] is a fun bootleg of a bootleg that's only found in the Puzzle King multi-cade). It's just wacky. You're in the topics... with a spreadshot shooting ghosts... as Pac-Man. Odd. Ball. XD