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* NintendoHard: This is known by fans as the hardest ''Pac-Man'' game ever, and with good reason. The ghosts just hunt Baby Pac-Man down instead of following a fixed pattern (with the red ghost moving faster and the magenta one moving slower, and the two other ghosts moving at Baby's speed). The table itself is smaller than an average pinball table, making it very easy to drain the ball. Added to the fact that the only way to earn power pellets is to play the pinball portion (and the drop targets for the lower two quadrant pellets must be hit ''seven'' times just to spawn one of them and can easily drop the ball into the drain due to their position; the upper quadrants have it a bit easier since you can spawn either or by hitting their drop target hard enough to get the ball occupying them to go to the other side, but since the pinball exits are at the bottom of the maze it's an uphill climb to get up there without getting hit), along with the ghosts' AI behaviors being undocumented due to the obscurity of the title. Your only saving grace is the pellets in the maze will not slow Baby, unlike the official games.
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* UncertainAudience: As stated several times, video game fans and pinball fans find the opposing segment of the game frustrating. While the idea sounds like a good MediumBlending concept on paper, in execution the end result is something that most people consider to be a mediocre arcade game and a mediocre pinball game haphazardly mashed together with no clear design direction or focus. The Atari 7800 port addresses this by allowing one to choose a "Play Type", changing the game to contain only the video or pinball halves or leaving both fully intact ala the original machine.
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* UncertainAudience: As stated several times, video game fans and pinball fans find the opposing segment of the game frustrating. While the idea sounds like a good MediumBlending concept on paper, in execution the end result is something that most people consider to be a mediocre arcade game and a mediocre pinball game haphazardly mashed together with no clear design direction or focus. The Atari 7800 port addresses this by allowing one to choose a "Play Type", changing the game to contain only the video or pinball halves or leaving both fully intact ala the original machine.machine.
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* ItsHardSoItSucks: ''Baby Pac-Man'' requires a good amount of skill with both pinball and video games. However, hardcore pinball players and hardcore video gamers are [[FandomRivalry rival fandoms]] (even during ''Baby Pac-Man'''s time), so there are relatively few people who are proficient at both types of games to perform well in ''Baby Pac-Man''. As a result, most people who try this game get frustrated at either the pinball or the mazes. Even for players that are fans of both video games and pinball, the video game half is designed to be more unforgiving than the arcade titles that inspired it with difficult maze designs that leave no room for error and ghosts that don't give the player any sort of breathing room and play by none of the original arcade ghost rules. As for the pinball, ontop of being a smaller-scale table and the flippers being quite far apart from each other, the goal of earning Power Pellets is made difficult by the player having to hit one of the yellow drop targets ''seven times'' per Power Pellet slot and the drop targets being placed just above the flippers. If the player isn't good with the timing of their shots on the drop targets (especially the center blue drop target), it can easily send the ball flying straight for the drain.
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* ItsHardSoItSucks: ''Baby Pac-Man'' requires a good amount of skill with both pinball and video games. However, hardcore pinball players and hardcore video gamers are [[FandomRivalry rival fandoms]] (even during ''Baby Pac-Man'''s time), so there are relatively few people who are proficient at both types of games to perform well in ''Baby Pac-Man''. As a result, most people who try this game get frustrated at either the pinball or the mazes. Even for players that are fans of both video games and pinball, the video game half is designed to be more unforgiving than the arcade titles that inspired it with difficult maze designs that leave no room for error and ghosts that don't give the player any sort of breathing room and play by none of the original arcade ghost rules. As for the pinball, ontop on top of being a smaller-scale table and the flippers being quite far apart from each other, the goal of earning Power Pellets is made difficult by the player having to hit one of the yellow drop targets ''seven times'' per Power Pellet slot (although the upper quadrant pellets can alternatively be activated by hitting the inner drop targets hard enough to move the ball behind them to the other side) and the drop targets being placed just above the flippers. If the player isn't good with the timing of their shots on the drop targets (especially the center blue drop target), it can easily send the ball flying straight for the drain.
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* ThatOneLevel: The first maze is considered to be the most difficult of the three by players, especially the top halves of the maze. The second maze meanwhile is only slightly easier.
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* ThatOneLevel: The first maze is considered to be the most difficult of the three by players, especially the top halves of the maze. The second maze meanwhile is only slightly easier.easier but continues with the problems of the first maze by providing very few routing options for escaping the ghosts.
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* ItsHardSoItSucks: ''Baby Pac-Man'' requires a good amount of skill with both pinball and video games. However, hardcore pinball players and hardcore video gamers are [[FandomRivalry rival fandoms]] (even during ''Baby Pac-Man'''s time), so there are relatively few people who are proficient at both types of games to perform well in ''Baby Pac-Man''. As a result, most people who try this game get frustrated at either the pinball or the mazes and most games will end on either the first or second maze. Needless to say, only a few will ever see the third maze and beyond.
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* ItsHardSoItSucks: ''Baby Pac-Man'' requires a good amount of skill with both pinball and video games. However, hardcore pinball players and hardcore video gamers are [[FandomRivalry rival fandoms]] (even during ''Baby Pac-Man'''s time), so there are relatively few people who are proficient at both types of games to perform well in ''Baby Pac-Man''. As a result, most people who try this game get frustrated at either the pinball or the mazes and most mazes. Even for players that are fans of both video games will end on either and pinball, the first or second maze. Needless video game half is designed to say, only a few will ever see be more unforgiving than the third arcade titles that inspired it with difficult maze designs that leave no room for error and beyond.ghosts that don't give the player any sort of breathing room and play by none of the original arcade ghost rules. As for the pinball, ontop of being a smaller-scale table and the flippers being quite far apart from each other, the goal of earning Power Pellets is made difficult by the player having to hit one of the yellow drop targets ''seven times'' per Power Pellet slot and the drop targets being placed just above the flippers. If the player isn't good with the timing of their shots on the drop targets (especially the center blue drop target), it can easily send the ball flying straight for the drain.
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* ItsHardSoItSucks: ''Baby Pac-Man'' requires a good amount of skill with both pinball and video games. However, hardcore pinball players and hardcore video gamers are [[FandomRivalry rival fandoms]] (even during ''Baby Pac-Man'''s time), so there are relatively few people who are proficient at both types of games to perform well in ''Baby Pac-Man''. As a result, most people who try this game get frustrated at either the pinball or the mazes and most games will end on either the first or second maze.
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* ItsHardSoItSucks: ''Baby Pac-Man'' requires a good amount of skill with both pinball and video games. However, hardcore pinball players and hardcore video gamers are [[FandomRivalry rival fandoms]] (even during ''Baby Pac-Man'''s time), so there are relatively few people who are proficient at both types of games to perform well in ''Baby Pac-Man''. As a result, most people who try this game get frustrated at either the pinball or the mazes and most games will end on either the first or second maze. Needless to say, only a few will ever see the third maze and beyond.
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* UncertainAudience: As stated several times, video game fans and pinball fans find the opposing segment of the game frustrating. While the idea sounds like a good MediumBlending concept on paper, in execution the end result is something that most people consider to be a mediocre arcade game and a mediocre pinball game haphazardly mashed together with no clear design direction or focus. The Atari 7800 port addresses this by allowing one to choose a "Play Type", changing the game to contain only the video or pinball halves or leaving both fully intact.intact ala the original machine.
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* ThatOneLevel: The first maze is considered to be the most difficult of the three by players. The second maze meanwhile is only slightly easier.
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* UncertainAudience: As stated several times, video game fans and pinball fans find the opposing segment of the game frustrating. While the idea sounds like a good MediumBlending concept on paper, in execution the end result is something that most people consider to be a mediocre arcade game and a mediocre pinball game haphazardly mashed together with no clear design direction or focus.
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* ThatOneLevel: The first maze is considered to be the most difficult of the three by players.players, especially the top halves of the maze. The second maze meanwhile is only slightly easier.
* UncertainAudience: As stated several times, video game fans and pinball fans find the opposing segment of the game frustrating. While the idea sounds like a good MediumBlending concept on paper, in execution the end result is something that most people consider to be a mediocre arcade game and a mediocre pinball game haphazardly mashed together with no clear design direction or focus. The Atari 7800 port addresses this by allowing one to choose a "Play Type", changing the game to contain only the video or pinball halves or leaving both fully intact.
* UncertainAudience: As stated several times, video game fans and pinball fans find the opposing segment of the game frustrating. While the idea sounds like a good MediumBlending concept on paper, in execution the end result is something that most people consider to be a mediocre arcade game and a mediocre pinball game haphazardly mashed together with no clear design direction or focus. The Atari 7800 port addresses this by allowing one to choose a "Play Type", changing the game to contain only the video or pinball halves or leaving both fully intact.
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* ThatOneLevel: The first maze is considered to be the most difficult of the three by players. The second maze meanwhile is only slightly easier.
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* ThatOneLevel: The first maze is considered to be the most difficult of the three by players. The second maze meanwhile is only slightly easier.easier.
* UncertainAudience: As stated several times, video game fans and pinball fans find the opposing segment of the game frustrating. While the idea sounds like a good MediumBlending concept on paper, in execution the end result is something that most people consider to be a mediocre arcade game and a mediocre pinball game haphazardly mashed together with no clear design direction or focus.
* UncertainAudience: As stated several times, video game fans and pinball fans find the opposing segment of the game frustrating. While the idea sounds like a good MediumBlending concept on paper, in execution the end result is something that most people consider to be a mediocre arcade game and a mediocre pinball game haphazardly mashed together with no clear design direction or focus.
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* DemonicSpiders: The ghosts in this installment are fiendishly difficult, not only being faster than in previous installments but also having more aggressive AI. They may even switch directions at any time.
* ItsHardSoItSucks: ''Baby Pac-Man'' requires a good amount of skill with both pinball and video games. However, hardcore pinball players and hardcore video gamers are [[FandomRivalry rival fandoms]] (even during ''Baby Pac-Man'''s time), so there are relatively few people who are proficient at both types of games to perform well in ''Baby Pac-Man''. As a result, most people who try this game get frustrated at either the pinball or the mazes.
* PolishedPort: [=PacManPlus=]' UsefulNotes/Atari7800 homebrew port includes options to play with less brutal ghost A.I. and play exclusively either the video or pinball portions.
* ThatOneLevel: The first maze is considered to be the most difficult of the three by players.
* ItsHardSoItSucks: ''Baby Pac-Man'' requires a good amount of skill with both pinball and video games. However, hardcore pinball players and hardcore video gamers are [[FandomRivalry rival fandoms]] (even during ''Baby Pac-Man'''s time), so there are relatively few people who are proficient at both types of games to perform well in ''Baby Pac-Man''. As a result, most people who try this game get frustrated at either the pinball or the mazes.
* PolishedPort: [=PacManPlus=]' UsefulNotes/Atari7800 homebrew port includes options to play with less brutal ghost A.I. and play exclusively either the video or pinball portions.
* ThatOneLevel: The first maze is considered to be the most difficult of the three by players.
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* DemonicSpiders: The ghosts in this installment are fiendishly difficult, not only being faster than in previous Namco and GCC's installments but also having more aggressive AI. They may can even switch directions at any time.
time. The red ghost is also always in a permanent "Cruise Elroy" state.
* ItsHardSoItSucks: ''Baby Pac-Man'' requires a good amount of skill with both pinball and video games. However, hardcore pinball players and hardcore video gamers are [[FandomRivalry rival fandoms]] (even during ''Baby Pac-Man'''s time), so there are relatively few people who are proficient at both types of games to perform well in ''Baby Pac-Man''. As a result, most people who try this game get frustrated at either the pinball or themazes.
mazes and most games will end on either the first or second maze.
* PolishedPort: [=PacManPlus=]' UsefulNotes/Atari7800 homebrew port includes options to play with less brutal ghost A.I. and playexclusively either the video or pinball portions.
portions by themselves.
* ThatOneLevel: The first maze is considered to be the most difficult of the three by players. The second maze meanwhile is only slightly easier.
* ItsHardSoItSucks: ''Baby Pac-Man'' requires a good amount of skill with both pinball and video games. However, hardcore pinball players and hardcore video gamers are [[FandomRivalry rival fandoms]] (even during ''Baby Pac-Man'''s time), so there are relatively few people who are proficient at both types of games to perform well in ''Baby Pac-Man''. As a result, most people who try this game get frustrated at either the pinball or the
* PolishedPort: [=PacManPlus=]' UsefulNotes/Atari7800 homebrew port includes options to play with less brutal ghost A.I. and play
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* ItsHardSoItSucks: ''Baby Pac-Man'' requires a good amount of skill with both pinball and video games. However, hardcore pinball players and hardcore video gamers are [[FandomRivalry rival fandoms]] (even during ''Baby Pac-Man'''s time), so there are relatively few people who are proficient at both types of games to perform well in ''Baby Pac-Man''. As a result, most people who try this game get frustrated at either the pinball or the mazes.mazes.
* ThatOneLevel: The first maze is considered to be the most difficult of the three by players.
* ThatOneLevel: The first maze is considered to be the most difficult of the three by players.
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Your Mileage May Vary for ''Pinball/BabyPacMan''.
* ItsHardSoItSucks: ''Baby Pac-Man'' requires a good amount of skill with both pinball and video games. However, hardcore pinball players and hardcore video gamers are [[FandomRivalry rival fandoms]] (even during ''Baby Pac-Man'''s time), so there are relatively few people who are proficient at both types of games to perform well in ''Baby Pac-Man''. As a result, most people who try this game get frustrated at either the pinball or the mazes.
* ItsHardSoItSucks: ''Baby Pac-Man'' requires a good amount of skill with both pinball and video games. However, hardcore pinball players and hardcore video gamers are [[FandomRivalry rival fandoms]] (even during ''Baby Pac-Man'''s time), so there are relatively few people who are proficient at both types of games to perform well in ''Baby Pac-Man''. As a result, most people who try this game get frustrated at either the pinball or the mazes.
