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[[File:Baby Pac-Man vpinmame.png|right]]
[[Image:Baby Pac-Man vpinmame.png|right]]
Because of the unusual nature of Baby Pac-Man, it was never converted for home play.  Therefore, in order to play it at home, you have only two choices.  The first, of course, is to buy yourself a copy of the game.  There are usually a couple on sale on eBay each month.  Nothing else will ever come close to the feeling of playing the actual pinball game than the real thing.
Because of the unusual nature of Baby Pac-Man, it was never converted for home play.  Therefore, in order to play it at home, you have only two choices.  The first, of course, is to buy yourself a copy of the game.  There are usually a couple on sale on eBay each month.  Nothing else will ever come close to the feeling of playing the actual pinball game than the real thing.


==MAME and PinMAME==
For the rest of you who do not mind giving up the physical sensation of playing pinball, the developers of PinMAME have come to your rescue.  PinMAME is the pinball equivalent of [[MAME]], and its sole purpose is to emulate pinball related hardware.  Of course, it's difficult to do anything meaningful with a pinball program and a scoreboard without an actual pinball table to interact with.  Enter Randy Davis' fantastic pinball simulator Visual Pinball, a modern freeware equivalent of the old Pinball Construction Set.  Through proper installation, PinMAME can be set up to communicate with Visual Pinball and provide realistic simulations of actual pinball tables whose ROM programs can be successfully emulated.  Baby Pac-Man is one such programs.
For the rest of you who do not mind giving up the physical sensation of playing pinball, the developers of PinMAME have come to your rescue.  PinMAME is the pinball equivalent of [[MAME]], and its sole purpose is to emulate pinball related hardware.  Of course, it's difficult to do anything meaningful with a pinball program and a scoreboard without an actual pinball table to interact with.  Enter Randy Davis' fantastic pinball simulator Visual Pinball, a modern freeware equivalent of the old Pinball Construction Set.  Through proper installation, PinMAME can be set up to communicate with Visual Pinball and provide realistic simulations of actual pinball tables whose ROM programs can be successfully emulated.  Baby Pac-Man is one such programs.


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# The basic controls are 5 to insert a quarter, 1 to start a game, the arrow keys to direct Baby Pac-Man, and the left and right Shift keys to operate the flippers.  Make sure that Windows' focus is on the table, and not the video screen, or your input will not be accepted.
# The basic controls are 5 to insert a quarter, 1 to start a game, the arrow keys to direct Baby Pac-Man, and the left and right Shift keys to operate the flippers.  Make sure that Windows' focus is on the table, and not the video screen, or your input will not be accepted.


It should be noted that if you go to all the trouble to download and play Baby Pac-Man, then you can use Visual Pinball and PinMAME to play the Mr. & Mrs. Pac-Man game as well.  That game features a far less elaborate "video game" where you must light up all of the dots in the center of the play field while avoiding the red "ghost" dot.  You can find the Mr. & Mrs. Pac-Man table and ROMs on [http://www.vpforums.com/vptables/tables.php?ltr=M this page].
It should be noted that if you go to all the trouble to download and play Baby Pac-Man, then you can use Visual Pinball and PinMAME to play the Mr. & Mrs. Pac-Man game as well.  That game features a far less elaborate "video game" where you must light up all of the dots in the center of the play field while avoiding the red "ghost" dot.  You can find the Mr. & Mrs. Pac-Man table and ROMs on [http://www.vpforums.com/vptables/tables.php?ltr=M this page].  


==MAME Standalone==
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If PinMAME is too complex to set up, Baby Pac-Man can be run by itself in MAME, albeit without audio. This only emulates the video portion of the machine- the pinball portion is completely absent. Different alphabetical keys correspond to different functions of the pinball table, which when pressed will cause a feature of the pinball machine to activate once Baby leaves the maze. Only the alphabetical keys of the bottom two rows are functional, with X expelling Baby Pac-Man back into the maze with no way back into the (nonexistent) pinball area, and G and H exiting Baby Pac from one of the two exit tunnels to return to the maze whenever desired.
 
==Atari 7800==
Because of the pinball / video game hybrid nature of this game, there was never a home port for any video game consoles.  This changed in 2018 when a homebrew was created for the Atari 7800.  This port contains both the maze section and the pinball section (simulated on-screen), making it the first complete port (not just the mazes) on a classic system.  It was completed in January 2019.
[http://atariage.com/forums/topic/278165-baby-pac-man Development thread]
 
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