Thanks to Claude.ai, I finally wrapped up both Pac-Man and Ms. Pac-Man. They share a bunch of code, so they come as a package and go everywhere together! They had a bunch of nagging bugs that I just didn’t have the time or desire to hunt down, and a handful of remaining items (i.e. 2-player support, killscreens, remaining logic to make them as close to the originals as possible, etc.). I collaborated with Anthropic‘s Claude.ai – which was actually quite fun – for a few weeks and wrapped things up.
I’m really happy with how these two turned out. About as accurate of a copy as I care to make (I think…) I’d guess that about 95% of the logic of the arcade version(s) is baked into these web versions. There are some very minor timing issues that don’t align perfectly with the arcade versions that will be hard to rectify, but unless you’re a pro Pac-Man player, I doubt you’ll notice.
Gamepad support is in there too! Don’t forget to check the info/instructions (hit the “Q” key) to see some of the cheats you can apply if you want to play around with aspects and levels of the game you might not normally be good enough to get to. Have fun!