Total Game Boy
28th March 2000
Published in Total Game Boy Issue 06
Ms. Pac-Man: Special Color Edition
It's the same - only with a bow!
How do you re-release an arcade classic with essentially all the same ingredients, but make it different? By adding a Super Pac-Man game into the mix too! Ms. Pac-Man followed her hubby into the arcade world almost 20 years ago, and now she's arrived in glorious colour on the Game Boy.
How did Namco manage to transform the yellow hero of gaming history into a female lead? They put a red bow on the original Pac-Man and give a suggestion of lipstick to those ever-gnashing jaws!
Same Old, Same Old
Yes, 'fraid so, Ms. Pac-Man is virtually the same as all the previous versions which stemmed from early Eighties' arcade machines. Is this a bad thing, though? Of course it's not: no matter how many guises Pac-Man comes in, the same eat-the-dots, avoid-the-ghosts (except when they're flashing) and grab-the-fruit gameplay is still totally addictive.
Super Pac-Man makes a great extra game too - it's basically the original game with knobs on!
Verdict
Graphics 80%
Basic - but that's Pac-Man!
Sound 60%
Chomp, gobble fizz noises...
Playability 100%
You'll never be bored!
Lastability 100%
We defy you not to get addicted.
Overall 85%
Seen it before but we love it!
