Miles’ class, Elkin Primary School JAMES BAREHAM Image: James Bareham Pac-Man - who did not turn out well at all - I went back to what I knew, tossing in a rather hacky joke about box wine.” So after attempting a more anthropomorphic Ms. ![]() Pac-Man in third grade (1981-1982, if you must know), picking up her traits from a series of trading cards and stickers that I stuck all over the inside of my school desk. But I will not fix it.” OWEN GOOD Image: Owen Good I worked really hard to put those polka dots on there, only to find out that she always wears solid-colored pink or red boots with a matching bow. And I think I’ve accomplished that here.īut then I fucked up. I tried to combine some of the more detailed, 3D versions of the character with the sprite people know and love. “In this Polygon Draws, I went for a simpler - but dare I say refined? - Ms. “I feel like this speaks for itself.” RYAN GILLIAM Image: Ryan Gilliam I added the flowers because it was a pre-loaded shape on Sketch.io, and I’d be lying if I said I didn’t think about Ari Aster’s Midsommar when drawing it.” PATRICK GILL Image: Patrick Gill I made this piece with the first web-based drawing app that came up after a Google search. Pac-Man eating a fruit power-up, and then shattering the glass ceiling. This piece, when viewed in conjunction with Petrana Radulovic’s, illustrates the duality that comes with being a woman in games. Pac-Woman,’ because I don’t know why she took Mr. Pac-Man forever yearning for what is just out of her reach, as she battles societal expectations and the constant reminder that she will forever be in Pac-Man’s shadow, without an identity of her own.” ANA DIAZ ![]() “Untitled, 2021 (Water-soluable wax pastels on paper)” PETRANA RADULOVIC Image: Petrana Radulovic Waka waka.” NICOLE CARPENTER Image: Nicole Carpenter Pac-Man as an ironic joke, but then I got worried that people wouldn’t be able to tell it’s a joke and I would just look like a weird pervert. The Timbs, however, were not.” JULIA LEE Image: Julia Lee “In retrospect, the teeth were a bad idea. Pac-Man as a combination of Christine Baranski from Mamma Mia and Christine Baranski from The Good Fight.” MIKE MAHARDY Image: Mike Mahardy Without looking up any of the original art depicting her, the staffers of Polygon did our best to remember what she looked like, drawing her based on those memories - and some of us even attempted to give her a new look for a new era. Pac-Man, and we celebrate her through the power of our artistic talents. ![]() Pac-Man? I know I wouldn’t have! Of course, Midway had only so many pixels with which to communicate the idea of femininity, so the results were simplistic and stereotypical - but the game played great, sold well, and received critical acclaim for its improvements over the original Pac-Man.Īnd so, in 2021, we look back on the legacy of Ms. Pac-Man, as our way of thanking all of those lady arcaders who have played and enjoyed Pac-Man.”ĭid those “lady arcaders” appreciate that one of the very first depictions of a playable woman in a game involved lipstick, a hair bow, and interstitial cutscenes depicting the romance and eventual progeny of Mr. It expanded our customer base and made Pac-Man a hit. Midway Games spokesman Stan Jarocki put it this way to Electronic Games in 1982: “ Pac-Man was the first commercial videogame to involve large numbers of women as players. Pac-Man’s playable wife had actually been created as a reward for all of the female gamers who had propelled the original Pac-Man to great heights. 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 “the new femme fatale of the game world.” She was yellow.
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