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MS. PAC-MAN Atari (Atari VCS) Wow! Four changing mazes! Floating fruit, from cherry cherr to banana! A cartoon at the end! It's enough to make the hardcore Pac Fan palpitate. And it's all true, Betty Lou—so how come it's boring? Atari has not seemed to catch on yet that the point of PacMan is to 1) avoid the monsters or 2) eat a power pill and catch the monsters.
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MS. PAC-MAN Atari
(Atari VCS)
Wow! Four changing mazes! Floating fruit, from cherry cherr to banana! A cartoon at the end! It's enough to make the hardcore Pac Fan palpitate. And it's all true, Betty Lou—so how come it's boring?
Atari has not seemed to catch on yet that the point of PacMan is to 1) avoid the monsters or 2) eat a power pill and catch the monsters. So they give us again, as they did in the PacMan cartridge, flickering "ghost monsters" that alternate from blinking to invisible and make the game both annoying and pointless.