Talk:Ms. Pac-Man

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[edit] Article title

The article should probably be at Ms. Pac-Man (hyphenated like Pac-Man), which currently redirects here. --Mrwojo 00:20, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I just came here to say the same thing. --Pagrashtak 19:25, 19 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Ghosts

Does anybody have information on the ghosts in Ms. Pac-Man? The names were Inky, Blinky, Pinky and Sue, I think ... (Sue having replaced Clyde from Pac-Man).


You are correct

Blinky mostly chases, Pinky mostly ambushes, Inky is the most scared, and Sue is the dumbest. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.60.188.6 (talk) 04:13, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] World Record

Heard somewhere that a new world record had been set in ms. pac-man (just over the previous record of 920,000 pts.), perhaps that should be included? --85.220.16.60 19:48, 16 August 2005 (UTC)


[edit] Bugs in The Game

Ms. Pacman does not have 255 playable boards. While the range checking bug in the "fruit" drawing code which causes the split-screen to occur in pacman also exists in mspac, other bugs cause the game to crash long before screen 255. Essentially, there's no range checking on the table lookups that determine the map and ghost behavior for a certain level, so around level 143(?) garbage values are read, resulting in a bad pointer to the map, making the game unplayable.

[edit] Class of '81: 20th Anniversary Ms.Pac-Man/Galaga

There's a "Class of '81: 20th Anniversary Ms.Pac-Man/Galaga" arcade game, but it isn't listed on this page. This is the information I have on it:

* it takes 2 quarters and after that you can press the Ms. Pac-Man selector or the Galaga selector to play said game

* if you lose all lives in Ms. Pac-Man (haven't tried Galaga) you can insert two coins to continue with 3 lives

* the machine does not show an attract mode, only a screen asking to insert coins, or when there are 2, a screen asking to select a game

* there are 5 controls: a Ms. Pac-Man selector, a Ms. Pac-Man button with an unknown function, a Galaga selector, a Galaga button, and a joystick

I ran out of quarters before I could get any more information.


[edit] Dates For Ports

DON'T delete the dates. Anyone knows that I found thouse dates on a link?

Please delete any dates added by User:Elil (IP: 68.100*). Whatever source he's using is unreliable. Mirror Vax 14:45, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Message moved from article

I have played the HOME ver on the atari 5200 and the computer version of Ms Pacman and I HAVE NOT SEEN act 4, when you get to that screen it only repeat 'act 3' (JUNIOR) but now the screens start changing at random —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 209.96.217.3 (talk • contribs) 13:58, June 8, 2006.


[edit] Origins of Character Sprite

Can anybody confirm or deny the existence of a contest held by Midway in 1980 or '81 for the cosmetic design of Ms. Pac-Man? In short, who "invented" this iconic character? --Iason 22:19, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

I confirm IasOn 03:38, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Acts 1-4

There are new intermissions between the maze changes: "Act 1 - They Meet": Pac-Man is chased by Inky, Ms. Pac-Man is chased by Pinky; the ghosts bang heads, the Pac-Men escape, and a heart appears between them. "Act 2 - The Chase": Pac-Man and Ms. Pac-Man chase each other quickly across the screen five times, with more speed each time. "Act 3 - Junior": A stork drops off a bundle containing a tiny Pac-Man (later reused in the attract mode for Jr. Pac-Man). (There are some manuals and websites that report a final "Act 4" that will play if the score is very high, but this is unconfirmed).

Can we get a confirmation if there is an Act 4?

[edit] hides, ms pacman

hello, can anybody tell me where the hide is in the act-3 junior field of ms pacman. and also how to get them in that hide. a link or a web site and even a e-mail is good.

any info will do thanx

ramon —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 213.10.16.52 (talk) 18:13, 18 December 2006 (UTC).

[edit] Milton

There was a pizza place near Hertford, North Carolina that had a Ms. Pac-Man machine where the orange ghost was named Milton. I saw this myself in January of 1998. I have no idea if it is still there. --Jnelson09 21:13, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Kansas Diner

I am deleting the bit about the blue mice bootleg found in a Kansas diner. It has been under "needs citation" for a few months now, and I don't think anybody is going to find a source. By the same logic, please don't add the pizza parlor with the orange ghost named Milton. None of this is verifiable or incredibly notable, and this article doesn't need a list of bootleg games. TheCatalyst31 Reaction•Creation 23:01, 31 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Removal of high scores section

I boldly removed the high-scores section after seeing another edit-revert of "new" high scores. Basically, this section is totally unencyclopedic, it's difficult to verify (and TwinGalaxies isn't the only site that records video-game high scores), and it seems unnecessarily prone to being vandalized with fake and/or unverifiable high scores. It's better to just not have this section here - if deemed necessary, we can mention TwinGalaxies and its role in recording high scores, in a single line somewhere else in the article. But trying to keep track of all the official high scores is really beyond the scope of Wikipedia (see WP:NOT). — KieferSkunk (talk) — 03:46, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

It's good to see that the first time a female ever scores on this site, the names are promptly removed. If you want verification on the scores ASK for it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.210.54.24 (talk) 05:15, 5 October 2007 (UTC)