[HN Gopher] The Pac-Man Dossier (2009)
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The Pac-Man Dossier (2009)
Author : PaulHoule
Score : 26 points
Date : 2022-12-30 18:04 UTC (2 days ago)
(HTM) web link (pacman.holenet.info)
(TXT) w3m dump (pacman.holenet.info)
| TedDoesntTalk wrote:
| I want to read the sections on maze logic, but I'm afraid it will
| spoil the game for me if I learn how to "beat it."
| Waterluvian wrote:
| One of these days I'm going to find a reasonably-sized hobby that
| interests me and curate a Web 1.0 page just like this for every
| nook and cranny of the topic. I'm probably feeling nostalgia for
| a simpler time where the internet was magical and wondrous and I
| had no responsibilities to distract me once my homework was done.
| [deleted]
| ofrzeta wrote:
| Good idea, but I hope you will update your new site once in a
| while unlike this Pacman site that still features Billy
| Mitchell as some kind of role model.
| Waterluvian wrote:
| I will write about an up-and-coming comedian and then stop
| updating it just before they get cancelled.
| bluedino wrote:
| I remember downloading shareware/freeware Pac-Man clones in the
| old days, they usually ran on DOS or Windows 3.1.
|
| Some played great, some looked great, but very few of them were
| "Pac-Man"
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| The speed was off, the maps weren't the right size, and you
| notice little things like the ghost AI or how Pac-Man corners.
|
| I started writing my own a long time ago, and although it's
| simple enough to get the basics right, there are a lot of little
| things that if you miss, it will just feel like a cheap clone.
|
| This document covers the details on those things, it's great.
| Some things you can figure out yourself (slowing down when
| 'eating' pellets, for example) but the AI and cornering is a
| little tougher.
|
| I give a lot of respect to the pioneers that came up with this
| 40+ years ago, in such early times of video games.
| mysterydip wrote:
| When I was making my pac-man clone, I used this as a reference.
| All the details add up, as you said.
| dang wrote:
| Related:
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| _The Pac-Man Dossier_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26134332 - Feb 2021 (10
| comments)
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| _The Pac-Man Dossier (2011) [pdf]_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19529487 - March 2019 (5
| comments)
|
| _The Pac-Man Dossier_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12879398 - Nov 2016 (11
| comments)
|
| _The Pac-Man Dossier - Meet the Ghosts (2009)_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8831567 - Jan 2015 (4
| comments)
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| Not sure of the correct year but 2009 is an upper bound
| (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12886902) - anyone know?
| sokoloff wrote:
| With certainty? No, but the Meta content on a version of the
| page I could find suggests January 2009: <META
| NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="OpenOffice.org 3.0 (Win32)">
| <META NAME="AUTHOR" CONTENT="Jamey Pittman"> <META
| NAME="CREATED" CONTENT="20090110;8512900">
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