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Pac-Man Ultimate Edition chats: Dev team member Flicky1211

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    PART OF AN ONGOING SERIES OF INTERVIEWS INVOLVING PAC-MAN ULTIMATE MIX   smashwhammy How did you get started with working on UltiMix flicky1211 It all started back in early 2024, I found a game called "Pac-Man 80". It was a collection of mazes from various Pac-Man games (basically a prototype Ultimate Mix).  I played the game for a bit but noticed it had some issues with inaccuracies in gameplay as well as some other issues.  The game was open source, as I could download the game and make changes to the game on my own side. At that point, I got to work on some improvements. Originally, they were very small changes, such as changing Pinky and Sue's speed to match the rest of the cast and some maze design fixes. Eventually though, it led to an entire project to make the game as close to the arcade trilogy as possible. This was mainly a solo project, though I did have some help and suggestions from a few other friends of mine. At some point, I thought it was ti...
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Who Wants Whammies?

 Don't Worry, your money's safe...   But here's a boatload of original Whammy animations, straight from the 80s production reels of Press Your Luck AND in its original blue-screen background!  These are ASKING to be used who knows where!     Press Your Luck|Original Whammy Animation|Reel 1 Part 1 - YouTube     Press Your Luck|Original Whammy Animation|Reel 1 Part 2 - YouTube   These were what the show used to cue up whammy animations to play - and chroma key the blue out - over the unfortunate contestant's score when he/she hit one of them (though some "special" animations are also included in here    And also coming to ring the new year, the icons that was used for slides on the board    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSO_8zSxXkY&pp=0gcJCTwKAYcqIYzv Forget that write-up, the video's only 50 seconds and a few prize slides .  But at least it's up and viewable now   AGAIN, THESE ARE ALL ORIGINAL PRODUCTION MATERIAL...
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Confessions of a Chuck E Cheese Employee 6

Well, I'm running out of clever ways to introduce this, so let's just get to it   Me : how long have you been working at your local CEC? bamboozledaddy : I have been working at my “local” CEC (still about an hour drive) for a couple of months now, that’s after I transferred from a different location though. I moved away for the summer and worked at my other location first, and then when I came back home I transferred to the one I grew up going to. bamboozledaddy (Unprompted Crazy Story): Just in the couple months I’ve started working there we’ve had to call the cops but over some pretty tame stuff. like, birthday parties not getting paid for, one time this woman started swinging on her baby daddy, but other than that it’s just a regular CEC, I just hold it dearly to my heart and that’s why I drive 2 hours a day LMAO. Me : that brings me to this...what's alcohol doing at a place like CEC? bamboozledaddy : So actually, in my state we don’t sell alcohol. the state won’t give u...
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Confessons of a Chuck E Cheese Employee: Volume 5

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 Well, we have yet another one for the ongoing Confessions of a CEC employee, but his time, i don't have to completely anonymize their identity (I'm using their Discord username for this)   Some "typos" remain as that's how the person meant to put it  
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Confessions of a Chuck E Cheese Employee: Volume 4

 This 4th interview was from a CEC discord server, the identity of which I'll keep private per the interest of higher ups in said server  
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Confessions of a Chuck E Cheese employee: Volume 3

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 Another one, which I was working on the interview & transcript on WHILE the other from "current anon" was happening.  Yes, me juggling 2 interviews/chats at the same time, all while doing other things like getting ready for a Dave & Busters trip the next day (the day after when I posted volume 2 and did the draft for this one.  Once again, edited for grammar and formatting.
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Confessions of a Chuck E Cheese employee: Volume 2

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 Well, I didn't think I'd be doing a Volume 2, but after sharing the original "Confessions of a Chuck E Cheese employee" to r/chuckecheese over on Reddit, I've had a positive response to it. In fact, people FROM the subreddit wanted to sit down for a similar interview (this being one of them)  Once again, they wanna be anonymous.  When I asked what they'd want to be referred as in this post, they said "current anon employee" so that's what I'll use. Again, some of the original Discord conversation has been edited for grammar and other stuff for the sake of this blog post.
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