Macrae had etched out a plan that involved editing the original Pac-Man kits which changed the collectible items of fruits int the original to baby-oriented items. During this period in Arcade evelopment, they had the option to develop the game as new arcade cabinet or implement a new hardware kit. Pac-Man were what Macrae described as "huge successes", the continued with the series. Pac-Man and Pac-Man meeting with "Junior Arriving" being the third and final intermission. Pac-Man they had created intermissions involving Ms. Macrae echoed this, while adding that in their previous game Ms. Pac-Man as a project to develop referring to the game as Pac-Baby in his project notes.
Hoskins recalled that GCC's founder Doug Macrae came up with the idea of Jr. Tim Hoskins worked at General Computer Corporation (GCC) as Jr. Pac-Man and a small red ghost named Yum-Yum who is apparently the daughter of Blinky. The between-level intermissions show the developing relationship between Jr. Pac-Man gets caught by a ghost, the larger dots disappear if there are only a few left, they revert to their original size. If an item has been out for long enough and encounters a power pellet, it self-destructs, taking the power pellet with it. As an item encounters dots, it changes them into larger dots that are worth 50 points instead of 10, but they also slow Jr. A total of seven mazes appear throughout the game, and five of them have six power pellets instead of four, but none of them have tunnels that wrap around from one side of the screen to the other.īonus items (such as tricycles, kites, and balloons) appear in each round, starting above the ghosts' lair and moving around the maze as in Ms. The mazes are now two times the width of the monitor and scroll horizontally. Once the maze is cleared, a new maze is presented and the gameplay continues. Eating a power pellet turns the ghosts blue, briefly allowing the player to eat them for extra points. Pac-Man (who wears an animated propeller beanie), and scores points by eating all of the dots in the maze, while four ghosts (Blinky, Pinky, Inky, and Tim) chase him around the maze and attempt to catch him. The bonus item which moves around the maze changes dots into a form which slows Jr. Pac-Man scrolls horizontally and has no escape tunnels. It has the same gameplay as prior entries in the series, but the maze in Jr. Pac-Man is an arcade video game developed by General Computer Corporation and released by Bally Midway on August 13, 1983. Perhaps once I am done I will go back and create a single application that can be used to hack any of the 5200/7800 variants of Pac-man.Jr. Editing is still pretty primitive, but it works! I can already modify mazes, dot and energy pill locations. Here is a screen shot of the first couple days of work. Pac-man, but I haven’t bothered to check if I can find the maze locations.Īnyway my in-laws were in town over Memorial Day weekend so I found myself a reason to sit in front of my computer for a few hours. Probably also works for any of the 7800 variants since they are all based on Ms. It was just enough for me to finally figure out how the 7800 mazes are stored for Jr. Last week Bob shared with me some partial source to Jr. Creating a graphical tool is pretty easy, but decoding the maze is another thing! Unlike Beef Drop (aka Burger Time), the mazes are not as straight forward. I’ve looked at the mazes using HOM3 and other text editors, but the exact format always confused me. Ever since I saw Pacman Plus’s original 5200 hack of Pac-man I wanted to create a graphic editor for manipulating Pac-man mazes.
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