In theory you can play whichever part of the game you choose, but in reality you have to think when it will benefit you the most to drop down into the pinball game and whether or not you play the pin game for as long as possible or just long enough to get what you want to play the video game. They will only re-open if you clear the level or die (I'll leave you to guess which is the more likely). If you've been successful in the pinball portion of the game then you'll have some better fruit and (crucially) some power pellets, but now the tunnels to the pinball table are closed. Only here can you lose a life and lose a life you will, because this game is even more relentless than Ms Pac-Man. In a unique twist, losing the ball is integral to the game, as this is how you get back into the video game portion. Spell this out and you effectively power up the tunnels, so you can evade the ghosts more quickly. On the right is a same thing, but with the word TUNNEL. Every time you complete all six letters a higher scoring fruit appears on the maze. The left the loop has the letters FRUITS, which will light up one at a time with each successive rollover. In the top corners are are loops, each of which leads to a rollover and an inlane (there are no outlanes). Hit it 6 times and you get an extra life. You can also earn a power pellet by hitting the captive ball that loops between the 1st and 4th columns.

Complete a column and you earn a power pellet. Hitting the 4 targets at the top of the playfield lights up a letter of the word PACMAN in the corresponding column. The playfield for the table is relatively simple and also quite symmetrical. In order to get one of those, you have to guide Baby Pac down one of the tunnels at the bottom of the maze, where upon the video game halts and a silver ball is released on to the table. The video game portion is your usual ghosts and maze combo, however there are no power pills. In terms of gameplay, this is one of the most different games in the entire series. The playfield of pinball table goes underneath the monitor, making the best possible use of the space. The display of the video game portion is then a 10' monitor, housed horizontally. The difference is that where the monitor would traditionally sit (in the bottom of the cabinet, facing up), is a compact pinball table. Its form factor is hardly any different to a standard upright arcade machine. The machine itself is noteworthy as a brilliant piece of design. So while Namco gave us Super Pac-Man, Bally/Midway produced games like Ms Pac-Man and it is that spin-off that spawned Baby Pac-Man, a character who first appeared in the intermissions of Ms Pac-Man, courtesy of a stoke (what else?). After the initial success of Pac-Man in the arcades, development of the sequels was split between the original developers (Namco) and the US/EU distributors (Bally/Midway).

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