

However, there was an internal conflict between whether the game should be titled "Miss", "Mrs.", or "Ms." Pac-Man eventually, the latter was chosen. Pac-Man arcade machines were scheduled to enter production in quarter 4 of 1981. Another, lesser-known change is that, in Crazy Otto, the ghost's eyes did not appear after being eaten with a power pellet this feature was added back in Ms. After this, the final character design for Ms. The Pac-Woman prototype was shown to Nakamura, who reportedly responded "Love the concept, get rid of the hair". Following this was "Pac-Woman", which starred a female Pac-Man with red hair. The first of these was titled "Super Pac-Man" - unrelated to the Namco-developed game - which used the same character graphics as the original Pac-Man. Midway, impatient for Namco to release the then-upcoming Super Pac-Man, purchased Crazy Otto for their own release.Īfter acquiring the game, Midway changed a quantity of details from Crazy Otto (some of which were at Namco founder Masaya Nakamura's request), going through several internal prototypes. presented the game to Bally Midway for approval of release. To avoid another lawsuit with Atari (which they had previously received for creating "Super Missile Attack", a Missile Command hack), G.C.C. Pac-Man started as an unauthorized hack of Pac-Man called Crazy Otto by General Computer Corporation, featuring a Pac-Man-like character with a blue eye and legs. Screenshot from a fan-made hack, recreating Crazy Otto.

An exception is the third maze, where the right entrance weirdly has another rare entry path. Each maze entrance has one entry and exit path.It starts at one of the tunnel entrances and follows a hardcoded path to the ghost house where after doing one lap clockwise, it follows another hardcoded path to leave through another maze entrance. The fruit bounces around the screen instead of remaining stationary below the ghost pen.After the banana appears, the fruit prizes are chosen at random. The Fruits are now cherries, strawberries, oranges, pretzels, apples, pears, and bananas, respectively.Starting with level 14, the last two maze configurations alternate between each other every 4th level. The orange maze appears in levels 1 and 2, the light blue maze appears in levels 3, 4, and 5, the brown maze appears in levels 6 through 9, and the dark blue maze appears in levels 10 through 13.

The game has four different colorful mazes that alternate.The gameplay follows the same premise as Pac-Man, although there are some key differences: Pac-Man eat all of the on-screen dots and avoid the attacks of the four ghosts.
