[HN Gopher] Where did you go, Ms. Pac-Man?
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Where did you go, Ms. Pac-Man?
Author : glhaynes
Score : 37 points
Date : 2024-06-17 20:02 UTC (2 hours ago)
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| busterarm wrote:
| In the words of one Johnny Blue
| Jeans...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqZo3pC6h68
| AdmiralAsshat wrote:
| I never noticed that none of the official art for Ms. Pac-Man
| includes her beauty mark, which is kinda key to the sprite. It's
| the only thing that distinguishes her from regular Pac-Man other
| than the bow.
| happyopossum wrote:
| > It's the only thing that distinguishes her from regular Pac-
| Man other than the bow.
|
| And the lips, and the eyes. Literally everything except the
| yellow partial circle is differentiated.
| toast0 wrote:
| She's got one in the marquee. But not the side art. But it's a
| lot better than the original Pac Man art.
| Tao3300 wrote:
| Love the side and base art. It's got such a cabaret vibe.
| Like the ghosts were supposed to be carrying her but at the
| last minute they decided to switch the arms to be neutral.
| johnchristopher wrote:
| Totally OT but: Godverdomme, why can't I right click those images
| of vintage ads :((((.
| waltbosz wrote:
| I hate when that happens.
|
| Run this code in your JS console to get an array of the urls to
| the 3 ads. Array.from(document.querySelectorAll
| ('img')).map(o=>o.src).filter(o=>o.includes('flyer'))
|
| Or this to get the urls of all the images.
| Array.from(document.querySelectorAll('img')).map(o=>o.src)
| masswerk wrote:
| My favorite variant is probably Pac-Gal [1] (a hack from 1981,
| sometimes also attributed Uchida, 1982) - it doesn't get more
| '80s than this.
|
| [1] https://www.gamesdatabase.org/game/arcade/pac-gal
| toast0 wrote:
| > After all, this would be like if Nintendo re-released a Super
| Mario game and swapped out Princess Peach for a Princess
| Pineapple or Princess Pumpkin and just acted like it wasn't
| weird.
|
| Yeah, that'd be weird, but swapping Princess Peach for Princess
| Toadstool was fine?
| entropicdrifter wrote:
| Mario 64 attempted to bridge this gap. Her last name is
| Toadstool (or maybe it's her title?) and her first name is
| Peach.
|
| What really happened, IIRC is that she was Princess Peach in
| the Japanese games and in the original translations they called
| her Princess Toadstool
| NeoTar wrote:
| Very much like Dr Robotnik (western) becoming Dr. Eggman
| (Japanese) in Sonic titles since the late 90's. In this case
| Eggman is played as an offensive nickname Sonic has given Dr.
| Robotnik.
| NeoTar wrote:
| I believe that in Mario lore they are explicitly the same
| character - either her name is "Peach Toadstool" (i.e. its
| surname and first name), or the Princess Toadstool is a title -
| like how the Prince of Wales, Queen Mother, and Princess Royal
| are all titles in the contemporary British monarchy.
| kibwen wrote:
| _" In Japan, her name has always been Princess Peach (pichiJi
| Pichi-hime), but in the West, she was originally known as
| "Princess Toadstool", due to Nintendo of America renaming her
| when localizing Super Mario Bros., feeling that "Peach" was
| irrelevant to the theme of the Mushroom Kingdom."_
|
| https://www.mariowiki.com/Princess_Peach#Name
| dragontamer wrote:
| Mario saves Pauline in Donkey Kong / original game, and Pauline
| didn't come back into mainstream Mario games until Super Mario
| Odyssey (2017).
|
| Princess Toadstool / Princess Peach seem to be the same
| character, much like Bowser / King Koopa, or Dr. Eggman vs Dr.
| Robotnik. The strange changing of names over the years has
| happened to other characters, but I think in-game cannon is
| that Princess Peach truly is Princess Toadstool.
|
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|
| Still, with Princess Rosalina in Super Mario Galaxy, I'd say
| that Mario has definitely tried the "Princess Swap" move
| already.
|
| Or really... Pauline was already swapped out for Princess
| Toadstool.
| NeoTar wrote:
| Pauline comes back in Super Mario Odyssey as the mayor of New
| Donk city.
|
| And the Super Mario Land (Gameboy) series introduced Princess
| Daisy as a potential love interest- she's now a mainstay of
| the series and often romantically linked with Luigi.
| Dwedit wrote:
| Donkey Kong '94 (Game Boy) brought back Pauline.
|
| Donkey Kong '94 is also about as close as you can get to
| being a Mario Game without actually being considered a Mario
| Game.
| jmull wrote:
| Ms. was a better game.
| crawsome wrote:
| The Drawn Together reference in the article was totally
| unexpected but welcome.
| egypturnash wrote:
| Huh. I feel like a Ms Pac-Man/Galaga multigame in the corner of a
| laundromat or restaurant is really the most common way for anyone
| to run into Pac-Man now, and yet here's Namco trying to retcon
| her out of existence.
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