While long-time fans of the series will know that Ms. Pac-Man is the wife of Mr. Pac-Man, and appeared as such in the 1984 side-scroller Pac-Land, a new re-release of the game has gone to the ...

Due to an ongoing dispute over the rights to the character, Ms. Pac-Man has been removed from a re-release of Pac-Land—and replaced, in what looks like a permanent switch, with a new character ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Ms. Pac-Man is a gaming icon alongside Pac-Man himself, but that hasn't stopped Bandai-Namco from replacing the character in a recent Pac-Land re ...

Graphic artist Nicholas Caballero, of Paraguay, noted on Twitter Wednesday that the anthropomorphic Ms. Pac-Man appearing in 1984’s Pac-Land is instead what Bandai Namco calls Pac-Mom ...

But the move probably has something to do with the long and complicated legal history of Ms. Pac-Man itself. In a 1983 lawsuit, GCC acquired a perpetual right to receive a royalty any time Namco ...

Ms. Pac-Man, one of the first playable female characters in video games, first came on the scene in 1982, wearing a fur stole and heavy stage makeup in a piece of cover art that described her as ...

Four iconic video games have been inducted into the World Video Game Hall of Fame: Ms. Pac-Man, Dance Dance Revolution, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, and Sid Meier’s Civilization.

Case in point: go to Google Maps right now and you can play a game (or several) of Ms. Pac-Man, the classic arcade game and follow-up to the popular Pac-Man. At the lower left of Maps on a browser ...

But unlike in previous examples from the Pac-Man series, Ms. Pac-Man doesn't follow in Pac-Man's footsteps. In fact, Ms. Pac-Man: Quest for the Golden Maze marks a return to the old-fashioned maze ...

They noted that the Ms. Pac-Man cabinet would also be available in “other home arcade form factors”. It appears as though the were talking about the Counter-Cade, because it just popped up on ...

In 1982, another circle rolled onto the scene and upped the ghost-chasing ante—and, as Ms. Pac-Man herself sang out during 1982 TV commercials, she was “more than Pac-Man with a bow.” ...