![]() They figured hey might as well cash in on what’s hot in culture trends.This is one of the most popular tile matching puzzle games. And the one guy was influenced by his feminist wife to make it a female. TL DR is basically it was a bunch of guys making a rom hack. The “real” Pac-Man sequel developed by the actual creators of Pac-Man at Namco was “Super Pac-Man” and was already in the works. It was mostly them just a small team thinking it was a cool idea, would be popular, and would stand out. I’m not aware of anyone intentionally going out and figuring the game appealed to women, so therefore they should create a female version. Magazine” being popular, and thought “Ms Pac-Man” would be fitting after they all rejected “Pac-Woman”. He talked about how the women’s movement was in vogue at the time. ![]() She didn’t want to take his last name, etc… He said she influenced him. The guy who created the characters talks about how he was married to a more hardcore/serious(?) second wave feminist. Once they got official approval from Midway to make it an official pac-man game they figured they might use those novel story ideas (gender) to make a female pac-man, give characters a bit of depth, and to stand out from the real game. Everyone thought it was cool that they could actually characterize these little game creatures. One of which was that they had a female creature of the player character, they both meet and a little heart appeared. The original hack used entirely different characters and they had little intermission cutscenes. Midway had license rights from Namco in the US. So they went legit by working with Midway. But they were also already working on and pretty far along with a conversion kit for pac-man. They got sued by Atari for their hacks, but had a settlement where Atari gave them a bunch of money to go away since it wasn’t technically illegal due to how their kits weren’t using copyrighted code. Pac-Man was made by a US tech startup of MIT dropouts that were making grey market conversion kits (rom hacks) for arcade machines.
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