Without looking up any of the original art depicting her, the staffers of Polygon did our best to remember what she looked like, drawing her based on those memories - and some of us even attempted to give her a new look for a new era. Pac-Man, and we celebrate her through the power of our artistic talents. Pac-Man? I know I wouldn’t have! Of course, Midway had only so many pixels with which to communicate the idea of femininity, so the results were simplistic and stereotypical - but the game played great, sold well, and received critical acclaim for its improvements over the original Pac-Man.Īnd so, in 2021, we look back on the legacy of Ms.
Pac-Man, as our way of thanking all of those lady arcaders who have played and enjoyed Pac-Man.”ĭid those “lady arcaders” appreciate that one of the very first depictions of a playable woman in a game involved lipstick, a hair bow, and interstitial cutscenes depicting the romance and eventual progeny of Mr.
It expanded our customer base and made Pac-Man a hit. Midway Games spokesman Stan Jarocki put it this way to Electronic Games in 1982: “ Pac-Man was the first commercial videogame to involve large numbers of women as players. Pac-Man’s playable wife had actually been created as a reward for all of the female gamers who had propelled the original Pac-Man to great heights. Pac-Man, one of the first playable female characters in video games, first came on the scene in 1982, wearing a fur stole and heavy stage makeup in a piece of cover art that described her as “the new femme fatale of the game world.” She was yellow.
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