>When players return to Pac-Man’s home in the game they are no longer greeted by Ms Pac-Man, but instead by a new character who wears a pink hat.
>According to Ryan Silberman, who contributed to the book Pac-Man: Birth of an Icon, the new character appears in the upcoming Pac-Man Museum+ and seems to be called ‘Pac-Mom’.
>The original Ms Pac-Man game was not a Namco creation. It was originally a modded version of the game called Crazy Otto which was made by a group of programmers at the General Computer Corporation (GCC) in the US.
>Midway, who had the rights to release Pac-Man in North America, wanted to release a sequel but Namco hadn’t provided one, so Midway agreed to buy the rights to Crazy Otto from GCC, with the two working together to turn it into Ms Pac-Man.
>When Namco’s licensing deal with Midway was terminated in 1984 (reportedly because it didn’t authorise the decision to release Ms Pac-Man), the rights to the Ms Pac-Man name went to Namco. However, GCC had already agreed a royalty deal with Midway, meaning it would get royalties any time Ms Pac-Man was used.
>These were further complicated in 2019 when AtGames, a company that specialises in mini retro consoles and handhelds, released a Ms Pac-Man mini arcade cabinet, despite Bandai Namco claiming it never gave permission to do so.
>Bandai Namco sued AtGames, who one week later did a deal with GCC to acquire the Ms Pac-Man royalties interest allegedly owed to it.
>Since then, Bandai Namco has seemingly made efforts to ensure that Ms Pac-Man doesn’t appear in any of its games, so as to avoid further complicating the royalties dispute.
Ms. Pac-Man will be replaced by new ‘Pac-Mom’ due to royalty rights
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Good. Ms Pac Man was always a retarded idea to begin with. Totally pointless "addition" to the series, and she looks awful.
Didnt ask
spbp
We will never get Pac-Man World rereleased because of this bullshit
New character is actually better lol.
Hey Yea Forums, what did Pac Man say to Ms Pac Man after the divorce?
she was a skank anyways. pacman always deserved better.
>pac mom
jokes on you copyright faggots, i'm into that.
>the house always wins
So how is Pac-Mom any better?
She is a trad wife and not a slut.
DAMN! pac-milf a bad bih fr
promotes familly values and fertility
How is Ms Pac-Man a slut?
hearty chuckle
>>Ms. Pacman drags the whole franchise into mobile hell
>HOW???
See?
Female protagonist and its consequences have been a disaster for gaming unironically.
It's over....
>Pac-NTR
Doesn't ms.pacman still appears in pac-land stage in ultimate?
What does Pac-Man do with that nose.........
At least it's not Bleeder Pacman
Or Pac that identifies as femme or whatever other retarded bullshit
her 3d model
>people literally unable to change a single sprite's color
Zoomers are more technologically illiterate than I thought. Smartphones and tablets truly doomed humanity. Our sworn nemesis.
God damnit. This means they'll never remaster the Pac-Man World games for PC or modern consoles.
What are you on about?
More like full remakes seem even more likely for the sole purpose of replacing any instances of Ms. Pac-Man with the new character, thus using those versions for re-releases going forward.
I doubt any of these collections released by Namco are strictly tight in terms of security/game tampering. How hard would it be to redraw a couple scenes' worth of pixels and recolor them on Photoshop?
Ms. Pac Man is objectively a better game than Pac Man.
I'm going to play Ms Pacman Maze Madness just to spite them
Trying too hard.
Go back, kid
Man copyright is fucking weird sometimes
It is weird most of the time, especially when you add trademarks and international law to the mix.
what divorce? MISS Pacman, she's not mrs pacman. probably pacman's sister or something
Ms is just what a married woman calls themselves to sound more professional in the work place.
It was literally made up to steal money from Namco. I would say it definitely had a "point."
should have changed it to pac-maam instead
Jesus. What a nightmare the memes would be. I think we have enough tranny jokes to work with.
>Pac-Mom
>Not Pac-Birthing-Person
very problematic tbqh
Why the fuck can't Bandai Namco just buy AtGames and disband them so they own the license for Ms. PAC-MAN again
Think they're a private company, and they don't want to sell.
>user thinks that just because a company doesn't want to sell means they can't be bought
>user thinks that a corporation wants to spend money when they can just throw on a pink hat
That's only true for public companies.
Ms. Pac-Man is woke.
She looks like she swallows human ghosts
user fucking look at her
is this real?
>pacmom
I'M COOOMINGGGGGGGGGGGG
Her official name is pac-landlady, if you sick bastards want to project that's on you.
>MetaDoom
>No MetaPacman
It's so dumb that a romhack overseas was given such rights. Mario bros 2 US at least was a collaboration with the DDP devs and not Nintendo just stealing things by slapping Mario on it.
Pac-Mom is just Ms. Pac-Man but ready to settle down after more than a decade of riding the ghost cock carousel.
Nintendo was the developer of Doki Doki Panic and they didn't need to ask for permission from no one.
ms. pac man origated as a bootleg, why does Namco even have to bother with the "rights" of a bootleg of their character?
>SJWs aren't meddling with your video games
>you are just imagining all of it
>just ignore them and they will go away
Take your meds.
>hey didn't need to ask for permission from no one.
So they need to ask for permission from everyone?
Pac-Mama would've been a better name.
>port/remaster/sequel never ever
Next time, take more than 2 seconds to read an OP
that is only said by sjws who want you to stop interfering with their evil plans
Because Midway was an official distributor of the game and they co-own this game. This is likely the reason why the PlayStation port of The Neverhood and the air hockey game will never be re-released.
The only characters Fuji TV owns from Doki Doki Panic are the family. Everybody else was created and owned by Nintendo.
I want to fuck pac mom