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In 2019, AtGames, a company specializing in replica microconsoles containing compilations of retro or retro-styled games, acquired a portion of the rights to Ms. Pac-Man from General Computer Corporation, the company that made the original Ms. Pac-Man game for Midway and Namco - this led to a lawsuit over the IP, with an undisclosed turnout. After this, Ms. Pac-Man would begin to disappear from Pac-Man games, implying that AtGames won the case, with Ms. Pac being replaced by a character named Pac-Mom, who has a visual design resembling Ms. Pac-Man's mother from Pac 'N Roll.
Pac-Mom first appeared in the Arcade Archives release of Pac-Land through graphical modification to the original ROM, and would then be named for the first time in Pac-Man Museum+ alongside modifications to other games that originally featured Ms. Pac-Man such as Pac-in-Time, and would appear again in Pac-Man World: Re-Pac in place of Ms. Pac-Man.
Ms. Pac-Man's final appearance in an original title would be on the Pac-Land stage in 2018's Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.
Pac-Mom first appeared in the Arcade Archives release of Pac-Land through graphical modification to the original ROM, and would then be named for the first time in Pac-Man Museum+ alongside modifications to other games that originally featured Ms. Pac-Man such as Pac-in-Time, and would appear again in Pac-Man World: Re-Pac in place of Ms. Pac-Man.
Ms. Pac-Man's final appearance in an original title would be on the Pac-Land stage in 2018's Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.
Lawsuit articles:
https://www.polygon.com/2019/9/26/20886032/ms-pac-man-lawsuit-bandai-namco-atgames-rights-royalties
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/bandai-namco-atgames-resolve-legal-dispute
Pac-Mom article:
https://www.eurogamer.net/pac-man-world-remake-replaces-ms-pac-man-with-pac-mom
Pac-Master's Wife/Ms. Pac-Man's mom in Pac 'N Roll:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SatrSV4EMW0#t=72
https://www.polygon.com/2019/9/26/20886032/ms-pac-man-lawsuit-bandai-namco-atgames-rights-royalties
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/bandai-namco-atgames-resolve-legal-dispute
Pac-Mom article:
https://www.eurogamer.net/pac-man-world-remake-replaces-ms-pac-man-with-pac-mom
Pac-Master's Wife/Ms. Pac-Man's mom in Pac 'N Roll:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SatrSV4EMW0#t=72
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