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Where did you go, Ms. Pac-Man?

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137 points glhaynes | 5 comments | 17 Jun 24 20:02 UTC | HN request time: 0.205s | source
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egypturnash ◴[17 Jun 24 22:04 UTC] No.40711611[source]▶
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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1. boomboomsubban ◴[18 Jun 24 00:12 UTC] No.40712706[source]▶
I think the omnipresence of Ms. Pac-Man is a US only thing, I'm not sure the cabinet was even released elsewhere. So the most common for you and me, but not most people.
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2. nikau ◴[18 Jun 24 00:29 UTC] No.40712806[source]▶
There was one in a supermarket in Australia when I was a kid
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4. alt0_ ◴[18 Jun 24 01:41 UTC] No.40713242[source]▶
Not from US and this is the first time of my life I even heard of Ms. Pac-Man
5. tessellated ◴[18 Jun 24 10:15 UTC] No.40715940[source]▶
Was skiing in Maria Alm, Austria when I was a kid (~late '80s, early '90s). Hotel vis-a-vis Wilder Kaiser mountain had a Ms. Pac-Man and a Ghosts'n'Goblins cabinet.