Which is better?

[NintendoPlayer307]

Ms. Pac-Man or Pac-Man?

[Pessimeister]

That's purely subjective to the experience and preferences of players, I think. I can see arguments can be made for both.

For me, I enjoy MS Pacman a little more for its board and layout variety, the sense of progression as you improve and more random elements based on the ghost movements.
The game remains very motivating for me get better at it and playing it on an arcade cabinet is amazing.

You can't go wrong with the original of course either; it's the grand daddy of them all and has accumulated such an incredibly rich history and legacy, drawing players over multiple generations to its simple, addictive game-play.

[Falkentyne]

Both Ms.Pac-Man and Pac-Man have identical unique ghost "behavior" (e.g. you can make the pink monster run away from you when approaching it from three directions (the 4th direction only works, oddly enough, on the Atari 5200 / 7800 ports, afaik). What stops "patterns" from working is random ghost movement for the first 15 seconds of the game (on the original Pac-man, the ghosts would always go to their "corners" right away).

Ms.Pac-Man starts becoming hard when you get forcibly "slowed down", so all the ghosts now move faster than you. (on Pac-man this happened on the 9th "key" stage).

[NintendoPlayer307]

Ms.PAC-Man

[Wasabi Alt]

Ms. Pac-Man

[KrimKitz]

Ms. Pac-Man is the better game in just about every way. No contest.

[Unseen]

Pacman is the original ms pacman is like a sequel with add ons.
Basically ms pacman is pacman with more colors in the levels and girly themes. Its a bit more unique and fresh but pacman is a revolutionary classic. Both are worth owning.

[roygantt]

In this version it's SPLIT EVEN because this steam version of Ms. Pacman is SLOW LOLOOLOLLL!!!

[roygantt]

Originally posted by Falkentyne:

Both Ms.Pac-Man and Pac-Man have identical unique ghost "behavior" (e.g. you can make the pink monster run away from you when approaching it from three directions (the 4th direction only works, oddly enough, on the Atari 5200 / 7800 ports, afaik). What stops "patterns" from working is random ghost movement for the first 15 seconds of the game (on the original Pac-man, the ghosts would always go to their "corners" right away).

Ms.Pac-Man starts becoming hard when you get forcibly "slowed down", so all the ghosts now move faster than you. (on Pac-man this happened on the 9th "key" stage).

Never happaned like that in the ORIGINAL MS. PAC I'm from the 80's era?!

[Ev]

ms pac-man solos fr

[GuyCC]

Ms. Pac-Man, solely on the gameplay tweaks, maze variety and improved AI. Don’t get me wrong: I still love original Pac-Man, but concede “Ms.” is the better title.

[Unseen]

Originally posted by GuyCC:

Ms. Pac-Man, solely on the gameplay tweaks, maze variety and improved AI. Don’t get me wrong: I still love original Pac-Man, but concede “Ms.” is the better title.

Agreed both are classic games and people should just get both if they are interested. Hell wasn't ms pacman just a glorified mod that Namco liked so much they slept a price on it?

I really wish Ms Pacman had got more attention in championship. Or hell make a whole new one, ms Pacman edition.

[kwaspek104]

the maze design of Ms. Pac-Man is honestly quite bad at times, I'm surprised it doesn't get talked about more often. Too many narrow pathways where you are forced to go down a path. Third maze in particular is hot trash.

The random ghost AI in the beginning of levels can be quite frustrating at times and kill you when you really did nothing wrong. there was a reason the original game was programmed the way it was. the game was obviously too deterministic, but the way the designers went about solving that problem in Ms. Pac-Man was less than ideal in my opinion.

So as much as I like Ms. Pac-Man, i have to say the original Pac-Man is the better game.

[Unseen]

I still think they should of had a Ms pacman championship edition.

[roygantt]

Ms. Pac-Man is definitely the better one even Pac-Jr was fun too the father character is slow:/