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In article <1992Aug26.092913.10103@meiko.com> gordon@meiko.com (Gordon Henderson) writes:
>In article <1992Aug25.160755.7776@hobbes.kzoo.edu> k044477@hobbes.kzoo.edu (Jamie R. McCarthy) writes:
>>dmb@rice-chex.ai.mit.edu (David Baggett) writes:
>>>neil@cs.hw.ac.uk (Neil Forsyth) writes:
>>>>One thing about the real Pacman was that the ghosts only made decisions when
>>>>they reached a junction. I don't think they ever doubled back along the same
>>>>path
>>>
>>>I suspect the arcade Pac-Man used a much simpler algorithm, but it's
>>>true that the ghosts can't ever double back.
>>
>>Not that I'm a big Pac-Man fan, but I just have to correct this.  At
>>(pseudo-) random intervals, all four ghosts suddenly reverse direction.
>
>I seem to remember from playing the original arcade game that the green ghost
>would reverse and run away from you if it was chasing you, then you reversed
>direction and headed straight for it!
>
>A cowardly ghost?
>
>----
>  Gordon Henderson
>

I also remember that each of the four ghosts had his own personality.

"Pinky":  The Pink ghost was extremely fast.  Pinky wasn't very smart,
but if he saw PacMan, PacMan was dead.  However, if he wasn't too close,
he was pretty easy to shake.

"Blinky":  The Red ghost was slower, but extremely tenacious.  He would
not ever lose the trail of PacMan once he found it, but he hardly
ever found it.

"Inky":  The Blue-green ghost was the one Gordon describes.  He had
a blind spot, and could not tell he was being followed.  Almost as fast
as Pinky, but not quite.

"Clyde":  The Orange ghost was the smartest, but he was very slow.  
Clyde would try to lay traps for PacMan by working with the other ghosts.

These descriptions were from what I remember of a "How to beat" book
on PacMan.  However, it was no less than ten years ago when I read it.

cpk

PacMan and the names of the ghosts are copyright by Bally-Midway.  =)