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Sometimes, I just love to dig into really old games. Here's 1983s "Ms. Pac-Man" from Atarisoft. The game came on a double-density, single-sided 5.25inch disk of 160K. But when you tried to look into it from DOS, it just seem completely empty, because it's a "Booter" without a file system. Interestingly, this one doesn't seem to be copy-protected at all.

P.S. Here's the link:
archive.org/details/pc_mspacma

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Today I'm playing Demon Front, another game from IGS (Taiwan) for their PGM arcade board.

It's clearly inspired by Metal Slug, although calling it a clone might be a bit unfair. It has some significant gameplay differences (level up shields, special attacks), and looks like a good game on its own right.

I guess Demon Front was already proper #retro in its day, having come out in 2002, well into the 3D era (the PS2 was ~2 years old by then). 🧊