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Had a bit of time on my hands so dove right into working on 'plus mode'. For those that don't know 'Pacman Plus' is a Midway mod of Pacman that is less famous than its cousin, Ms Pacman. Pacman plus retains the same maze and general gameplay but it's a little faster, and there are random incidents that can happen in game when eating pills and fruit.
Rather than replicate Pacman plus exactly, I decided to riff on it a little and have a bit of fun with it. In this version, the game is faster and it is the fruit that generate random effects. The following effects can happen when eating a fruit:
1) All the ghosts turn blue and freeze. This works but I need to stop the eyes from freezing, which I will fix shortly.
2) All the ghosts turn blue and temporarily invisible. This is from Pacman Plus.
3) All the ghosts turn blue and the whole maze turns invisible. This is also from Pacman plus.
4) Pacman turns green and is temporarily invincible and can pass through ghosts.
5) Pacman flashes red and yellow and can move at twice his normal speed.
All of these effects can be seen in the video - the first three in the first playthrough and the other two in the second playthrough.
Obviously they still need work but I'm quite happy with this little twist on the original which you will be able to select from the menu screen.
Also shown here is the game running with ULAplus palette which features the 'teal' colour maze from Pacman plus. In regular ULA it shows as green.