21 Things You Didn't Know About Pac-Man

8. Ms Pac-Man Was A Thank You To Female Gamers

According to Midway, they couldn't get any women to play games before Pac-Man came out, so when they responded well to the original, they released Ms Pac-Man as a way to thank them.

One EA director claimed that game's success was down to its feminist message: "One way of looking at Ms. Pac-Man is imagining she is being pursued by the wild males until she turns around and captures them. She tames their wildness as it were."