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neat video & well made IMO, thanks for sharing Lee

I just found this video on Youtube, and it's very well made and informative. Thought you guys might appreciate seeing it.
 

My best so far, 8,400. Level 2 is tough!

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Ringing the bell gets no points, but it replaces any missing fruit with more valuable fruit. There are four fruits with pineapples being the last and most valuable. Any fruit on the screen when the bell rings do not get replaced, so it's possible to have different kinds of fruit on screen at the same time.

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I must try again.  This is a fun one.  I can do better I'm sure. 
 
I'm playing on Stella...I had not yet loaded any eumulators on my new PC yet, so this gave me the impetus to do that.  Stella with a Slik Stik connected via USB. 

$14,000 in 5 days is going to be tough.

I'll be able to help out tomorrow!

I'm going to share this on our social media accounts over the weekend. Weird Paul Petroskey is an awesome guy and the people behind this film deserve our support.

Thanks guys.  I think it'd be a shame for this not to get made.

Same.  Paul's videos are so dang enjoyable.  I owe him. 

Thanks for posting this Rowsdower! I will throw him a few bones too 

I'm sure some of you know he's working on trying to get his documentary "Will Work for Views" released via kickstarter.

Well Paul's got five days left and has a LONG way to go towards their goal


https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/interestinghuman/will-work-for-views-a-documentary
 
 
I tossed him a few bones, and I figured some of his fans here might do the same.

 

I, for one, enjoy Food Fight more than Ms. Pac-Man, but the truth is Food Fight was not a well known title (even to this day, a lot of non-7800 players aren't aware the game even exists) and the screen shots alone aren't that catchy.  So while I would've liked it as a pack-in, I don't think it has the mass appeal.
 
Xenophobe was one of the later releases, so that would rule it out. Otherwise, I'd be all over a Ninja Golf 7800 System set with Europads thrown in!

And a lot of folks might have been disappointed with Xenophobe...I know Jimmy G has many times lamented that you can't be Dr. Kwack, for example...and one of the attractions about Xenophobe in the arcade was that you could play up to three players.

Ms Pac Man was ported to many of the old systems, but it's amazing how hard it was to get the "feel" of the game just right.  A lot of the versions were too herky/jerky to be really fun. 
 
Someone mentioned the horrible Genesis version, and that's a good example.  Movement of MPM and the ghosts is not smooth enough.  SNES version is almost the same, but gets the smoother animation.  But that version is too slow. 
 
NES had a great version.  No complaints there. 
 
The one that blows me away is the version for original Gameboy.  It totally kicks butt over the Lynx and Game Gear versions (which have color and superior hardware).  But check it out....great graphics, great sound, perfect animation and control.  This version is one of my favorites.
 
2600/5200/7800 versions are all really great.  7800 especially gets the "feel" right, and the speed is fantastic.  Much faster than a lot of other versions. 
 
And then any system that gets a "Midway's Greatest Hits" or "Arcade Collection" pretty much got an arcade-perfect version of the game.  Most notable is for Gameboy Advance. 

Totally agreed. As long as I've been on AtariAge (about 16 years) I've seen many homebrews and hacks to make Pac-Man more like the arcade version, but I've never seen someone try to do the same with Ms. Pac-Man. Yeah, Ms. on the 2600 is a much better version of Ms. Pac-Man than Pac-Man on the 2600 is of Pac-Man, but I agree with you, Doc -- there's plenty that can be done with Ms.:
 
- Add the intermissions (and include the little sound effect when Pac and Ms. bump into each other -- the only home version I've ever seen that has that little sound is the yet-to-be-released POKEY version of Pac-Man Collection! on the 7800)
- Make the mazes more faithful to both the layouts and the colors of the arcade mazes
- Maze changing patterns to match those of the arcade (2600 has it change every 2 mazes)
- Improve the randomization of the bonus prize after the banana
- Add the background noise
- And for extra measure, add some special features like configuring when you get a bonus life, high speed option, and maybe "plus" mode.
 
Sound like a lot? Sure. But look at what they did with Pac-Man 8k.
 
And I've said this before on a few occasions, but what I'd really LOVE to see is someone take the existing 2600 Ms. Pac-Man and turn it into a crappy version that would be similar to the Tod Frye Pac-Man.
 
 
 
I addressed this in the latest Pie Factory Podcast (or was it the previous one??), but...I don't think Food Fight as a 7800 pack-in would have been a good business move on Atari's part. It would definitely have sold the system, but...thing is, Food Fight is the killer app for the 7800. It would make a lot of the other games pale in comparison.
 
I agree with nsg's assertion that Ms. Pac-Man would have been a better pack-in. It's a game that most people are already familiar with, and it was one of the most successful arcade games of all time, if not the most successful arcade game of all time. Imagine....Christmas time, you get an Atari 7800 for Christmas, and it comes with Ms. Pac-Man. ANYBODY in the family with at least one hand and some mastery of motor skills can immediately fire up the new console and play the game.
 
But Pole Position II?? A racing game being played with the PainLine?? And of course, there's the OCD factor: well, where's the original Pole Position??? Where there's a II, you need a I.
 

I would agree that Ms. Pac-man would have made a better pack in...but only if the 7800 had been released originally in '84 as it was initially intended and he is why:
 
The 2600 eventually used pac-man as the pack in game, and pac-man eventually became a pack in for the 5200 as well. So it would have made complete since to have Ms. Pac-Man as the pack-in for the 7800 back in '84. 
 
However, I'm not as sure if Ms. Pac-man would have been a good pack-in when the 7800 was finally released in '86 and more mainstream by '88. Perhaps by then a different game to showcase the 7800 better should have been used. I've always thought that Food Fight or Xenophobe would have been good for this. Food Fight would have been fairly exclusive to the 7800 at that time, and if they used Xenophobe it would have been an excellent game to showcase the graphical power of the 7800 plus the fact it allowed two player simultaneous play. Part of the reason Combat was damn popular with everyone when the 2600 first came out was due to the fact that it was a two player game not just because it was the pack-in.
 
Just my opinion of course...

Actually, PP2 was licensed from Namco, just as Ms. Pac-Man was. Odds are that they still had licenses lined up for home use when they 7800 system came out as both games came out for the 2600 before then.
 
Ms. Pac-Man on the 2600 is really good, but the 7800 really improves on it.

I love how *fast* 7800 Ms. Pac Man gets.  The ghosts really start flying around after a few levels.  It's really a great version. 

I'd have to agree, Ms. Pac-Man was a far more popular game.  It would have helped sales. 
 
Plenty.  The 7800 version is arcade accurate pretty much.

Pac-Man was a launch title for the 2600 for awhile. I don't have any statistics of how well that turned out. 
 
Pole Position 2 was an Atari title they didn't need to get a licence for and quite a graphical improvement over the 2600 version
 
Ms Pac-man for the 2600 is a terrific game. not sure what improvements there are for the 7800 release. 

Blinded by $$$$ is my guess.

I love Ms. Pacman on the 7800 and agree it should have been an obvious pack-in game!! I can't stand the Sega version. Ms Paman for the 2600 was sooooo much better than the first one.  Why did they not see this?

I love Ms. Pacman on the 7800 and agree it should have been an obvious pack-in game!! I can't stand the Sega version. Ms Paman for the 2600 was sooooo much better than the first one.  Why did they not see this?