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What is your preferred Pac (family) speed?

Standard
Fast Pac, everyone else is regular
Everything sped up (is this a thing? I think it is.)
  

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What is your Pac preference?
« on: June 16, 2012, 06:19:00 pm »
So I was on vacation last week, and of course I searched out every coin-op I could find. I must have come across 6-7 Pac/Ms.Pac/Jr. Pac machines, and every single one was "fast," where your character is light speed and the rest of the game moves normally. Personally, I dislike the modified pac games. For instance, on Ms. Pac I got to the "junior" cut-scene twice, and eventually died mostly due to lack of interest, a little over 120,000 points- normally I wouldn't get a third of that. I can see the variations as a novelty, but to leave a machine sped up seems to dull the game a bit.

What speed of pac do you prefer, and do you run any non-standard versions on your MAME or dedicated cabs?
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Re: What is your Pac preference?
« Reply #1 on: June 18, 2012, 10:48:07 am »
I hadn't run into the "speed" hack until relatively recently, so the novelty hasn't worn off on me yet.  I still think it's a hoot to play in that mode after 30 years of "slow" Pac-Man.

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Re: What is your Pac preference?
« Reply #2 on: June 18, 2012, 11:02:28 am »
Regular pacman, normal speed. Anything else ruins the game.

Ms Pac, I can go either way on that. The speedup chip makes the game move along a bit faster, but also makes it a bit too easy.

JR Pac, speedup all the time. Its just to fricken hard without it. Its pretty hard *with* the speedup chip in really. The monsters hunt you down in no time and there's none of the occasional "favorite corner" visiting to give you a break.