Today I played my old version of Tengen Ms. Pacman again for the first time in many years. There was a contest at "Hot Toyz" at the New Park Mall in Newark, CA. Thanks to Jeff Yonan who arranged the contest and invited me to watch. I didn't participate because, well, that would be cheating.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QKAS2TQ9tE
The above link shows some footage of the game. The comments mention that a guy at Tengen did the game in four months without access to the source code. Well, that guy is me, and while I didn't have access to the source code I did have an arcade machine in my cubicle wired up with a pause button. I was able to do pixel perfect graphics and mazes by using that pause button a lot.
Amazingly (no pun intended) I just realized this afternoon that Pacman and Fat Jumper have similar themes, sort of. Maybe I'll put cherries, strawberries, apples, pears and bananas into Fat Jumper, as a tribute. Is it legal to put a banana into a game and make it worth 5000 points? Well, this is a non-issue anyhow because in Fat Jumper the food isn't going to be worth points anyway. You'll want avoid the food!
I saw a few things in the game that I didn't remember putting in. For example, there's a "fruit" in there that's actually a badge from the never released Tengen Police Academy game. It's a star with the letters PA in the middle. Now that's some truly obscure trivia. There's also some ads for Klax and Toobin', two other Tengen NES games. That's in-game promotion of other games way back in 1990.
-- fxl
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QKAS2TQ9tE
The above link shows some footage of the game. The comments mention that a guy at Tengen did the game in four months without access to the source code. Well, that guy is me, and while I didn't have access to the source code I did have an arcade machine in my cubicle wired up with a pause button. I was able to do pixel perfect graphics and mazes by using that pause button a lot.
Amazingly (no pun intended) I just realized this afternoon that Pacman and Fat Jumper have similar themes, sort of. Maybe I'll put cherries, strawberries, apples, pears and bananas into Fat Jumper, as a tribute. Is it legal to put a banana into a game and make it worth 5000 points? Well, this is a non-issue anyhow because in Fat Jumper the food isn't going to be worth points anyway. You'll want avoid the food!
I saw a few things in the game that I didn't remember putting in. For example, there's a "fruit" in there that's actually a badge from the never released Tengen Police Academy game. It's a star with the letters PA in the middle. Now that's some truly obscure trivia. There's also some ads for Klax and Toobin', two other Tengen NES games. That's in-game promotion of other games way back in 1990.
-- fxl
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