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1	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lady_bug.png]]
2	''Lady Bug'' is a 1981 video game in which you go through a maze eating dots and other things while avoiding four enemies which emerge from a box in the middle. In other words, it's practically ''VideoGame/PacMan'', except by Universal instead of Namco.
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4	''Lady Bug'' has a few differences from ''Pac-Man'', though. The characters are all insects. The bonus items are vegetables rather than fruits. The maze has no WrapAround passages. And most significantly, there is no PowerUp that lets you eat the enemies; instead, the maze has turnstiles which can be flipped to block the movement of the predatory insects, and hearts and letters which give different bonuses depending on whether they are red, yellow or blue when collected.
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6	This game was adapted by Coleco for the Platform/{{Intellivision}} and Platform/ColecoVision, and by Creator/ChampGames for the Platform/{{Atari 2600}} as a homebrew game in two editions, an easier home version and an arcade edition.
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8	Notably, this is the first known video game to have a playable female character.
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10	!!Tropes present in this game:
11	* ActionGirl: In fact, Lady Bug is the first playable female in video games.
12	* AdaptedOut: The S-P-E-C-I-A-L bonus reward from the Intellivision version, due to memory constraints.
13	* BonusStage: The Vegetable Harvest Screen, added to the home versions in lieu of a free game credit.
14	* EndlessGame: You play until you run out of lives.
15	* LadyNotAppearingInThisGame: There are, in fact, no attractive insect-girls in this game. On a ''completely'' unrelated note, it only did "all right" in arcades. Just saying.
16	* MazeGame: Of the Pac-Man variety.
17	* PlayableMenu: The high score name entry screen has the player enter letters by walking over them.
18	* PoisonMushroom: Skulls kill any insect that runs into them.
19	* PragmaticAdaptation: The Platform/ColecoVision version replaced the arcade original's free game credit from spelling S-P-E-C-I-A-L with a BonusStage, since the home version didn't require quarters to play it.
20	* ScoreMultiplier: Points are multiplied after eating blue hearts.
21	* SpellingBonus: Spell E-X-T-R-A for an extra life, or S-P-E-C-I-A-L for a free game credit or a BonusStage (see PragmaticAdaptation).
22	* WingedSoulFliesOffAtDeath: The death animation involves a pair of wings and a halo floating off the top of the screen.

Context VideoGame / LadyBug