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Pac-Woman and Mr. Pac-Woman
#396483 - 06/19/23 03:17 AM
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Link to ROMS (attachment removed to keep illegal SW off forums): https://file.io/ANWlMXKWnrsL
Because there aren't enough Pac-Man and Ms. Pac-Man hacks already...
Background for both hacks - A feminist takes on gender rolls in video games such as Pac-Man and Ms. Pac-Man. The video in the linked article does a decent job on the history for both games, even discussing Pac-Woman and Crazy Otto as well as many other video games. Unfortunately, the video stops being interesting about 1/3 of the way through.
https://feministfrequency.com/video/ms-male-character-tropes-vs-women/
The hacks: To address Anita Sarkeesian's concerns, images and rom hacks were created to change up the gender roles on both characters based on a Tumblr post that reimagined the characters (https://femfreq.tumblr.com/post/67671913832/in-response-to-my-ms-male-character-video-someone).
https://upnotnorth.net/2014/01/06/pac-woman-and-mr-pac-woman-rom-hacks/
The hacks themselves (both hacks in attached zip):
Pac-Woman is only a title change to the pacman Midway romset. There is zero difference between it and Pac-Man other than a couple places where the game says Pac-Manwoman instead of Pac-Man.
Mr. Pac-Woman is a title change as well as a graphics change, giving Ms. Pac-Man a top hat and a bowtie. This is a hack of mspacman.
File changed in Pac-Man (Pac-Woman hack): pacman.6j
Files changed in Ms. Pac-Man (Mr. Pac-Woman): 5e 5f boot4
"Because we live in a strongly male-identified society the idea of Pac-Woman as the “unmarked” default and Mr. Pac-Woman as the deviation “marked” with masculinizing gender signifiers feels strange and downright absurd. While Pac-man and the deviation Ms. Pac-Man seems completely normal in our current cultural context."
Edited by McHale (06/19/23 11:25 AM)
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