Bonk's Adventure, Doom 64 (2020) - Ms. Pac-Man at 40

Season 4 Episode 3

Episode 114

News:

• Hardware
  • Analogue Pocket & Dock firmware updates merged
• Homebrew, rom hacks & emulation
  • Legendary SNES Emulator SNESTicle Freed Using NSA Tools
  • Tomb Raider on the Nintendo Game Boy Advance is incredible | MVG
  • Sonic The Hedgehog C64/C128 has been RELEASED and it looks AMAZING!
  • Star Fox - Mouse Mode
  • Ys I (In Falcom Classics I) on Saturn Fan Translation Version 0.1 Released!
  • Skate Cat scatological platformer for NES demo available
• Doom running on things
  • This ‘Minimum Viable Computer’ Costs $15—and It Can Run Doom
• Takedown letter pending
  • Akumajou Dracula AGA - Castlevania could be coming to the Amiga, and it looks amazing ( Play the prototype today! )
• Other odd or interesting thing
  • Random: An AI Broke Tetris On NES, And It’s Compelling Viewing

Topic: Ms. Pac-Man at 40?

• Preface
  • Steve Golson MIT talk
  • Podouken podcast ep. 30
• Development 
• Release
  • Wikipedia lists it at 1/13/82
  • Newspapers said 2/3/82 
• In the press:
  • Early reviews and reception:
    • “Love in the Arcades” Fitchburg State College newspaper, May 1982
    • “Around the Route” Cashbox, May 1982 
    • Blurb in Electronic Games, June 1982
    • “Ms. Pac-Man Catching Up” Play Meter, July 1982 
    • “Memoranda” Working Woman, November 1982
  • Women in gaming:
    • “Women Join the Arcade Revolution” Electronic Games, June 1982 
    • “The House that Pac Built” Video Games, December 1982
    • “The Absolutely, Positively Last Word on Pac-Man” Video Games, August 1982 
    • “A Cracked Review of Popular Video Games” Cracked, December 1982 
  • Tips and tricks:
    • “Tips for Pac-Maniacs” Electronic Games, June 1982 
    • “Beating the Games” Video Games, August 1982
  • Other interesting mentions in various publications:
    • “One way to research an issue” Nation's Cities Weekly, June 6th 1982
    • “Video Games Interview: Ken Uston” Video Games, December 1982
    • “Intermissions” Defending the Galaxy: The Complete Handbook of Videogaming, 1982
      • “Myth: Ms. Pac-Man Split Screen Level” Fandom.com
    • Interracial Books for Children Bulletin 1982: Vol 13 Iss 6-7
    • “Industry news” Body Fashions/Intimate Apparel, July 1982 
    • “Ms. Pac-Man gobbles up nursing home interest, too.” American Medical News, December 1982
      • “Video games provide therapy” Daily Universe, November 1982
• Ports
  • Compilation video of many ports
• Final thoughts

Game Club Discussion:

• Bonk’s Adventure
• Doom 64 (remastered version)

New Game Club Games:

• Ape Escape
• Jackass: The Video Game

Game Club Link Tree

Bumpers:  Inverse Phase, Raftronaut 

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