BALLY · 1982
Baby Pac-Man
'Baby Pac-Man' is a combination of a scaled-down pinball machine and a video game. The manual in our Files section includes the "Vidiot Module AS-2518-121 Theory of Operation" which is not to be confused with the different one used for Bally Midway's 1984 'Granny and the Gators'. We removed our unsubstantiated Manufacture Date of October 1982. Instead, available Bally documentation shows only a release (to production) date of 10-11-82.
Starts in video mode; tunnels at bottom of maze lead to pinball; draining returns to maze w/tunnels blocked; "ball" ends when Pac-Man dies.
Power pellet/energizers awarded by hitting captive ball or spelling PACMAN with yellow drops; unused energizers hold over to next maze.
Spell TUNNEL to increase side tunnel speed in maze, useful to escape ghosts. Spell FRUITS to increase points for fruit collected in maze.
Saucers spot FRUITS/TUNNEL letters and light spinner. Lit saucers return to maze, leaving a bottom tunnel open to return to pinball mode.