
Munch Man is a 1982 clone from Texas Instruments for the TI-99/4A home computer.

Hungry Horace is a 1982 Pac-Man clone for the ZX Spectrum. Scarfman is a 1981 Pac-Man clone for the monochrome TRS-80 computers. North American Philips Consumer Electronics Corp., an Appellate court found that Phillips had copied Pac-Man and made alterations that "only tend to emphasize the extent to which it deliberately copied the Plaintiff's work." The ruling was one of the first to establish how copyright law would apply to the look and feel of computer software. It was however, similar enough for Atari to sue Philips and force them to cease production of Munchkin. It is very heavily based on Namco's 1980 arcade game Pac-Man, but not a direct clone. Munchkin! is a 1981 release in the official line of games for the Magnavox Odyssey². Atari threatened to sue the publishers, Sierra On-Line, but they released the game anyway. Jawbreaker (1981) for the Atari 8-bit family re-themed the gameplay, winning a best action game award in 1983.
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Ghost Hunter from Arcade Plus is a 1981 clone for the Atari 8-bit family that plays The Twilight Zone theme at the start of the game. Atari sued Fitzgerald and he sold the port to Atari which they ended up selling as a licensed version of the game. Taxman is a 1981 Pac-Man clone for the Apple II programmed by Brian Fitzgerald. Thief is notable for using approximately eight minutes of scripted radio communications between the officers, played from a cassette tape inside the game cabinet. The central character is the titular Thief in a getaway vehicle, while police officers in cars replace the ghost monsters. Thief was released by Pacific Novelty in 1981. The central character is a dot-chomping hand, and the ghost monsters are replaced by hands representing Rock (a fist), Paper (splayed fingers), and Scissors (two fingers outstretched). The central character is a dot-chomping piranha, and squid creatures replace the ghost monsters. Midway, owners of the Pac-Man copyrights, were granted summary judgment for copyright and trademark infringement in 1983. Pac-Man" Among the similarities cited were the color and shape of the player character and ghosts, the maze configurations, the sound effects, the paths of the characters in the attract mode and the paths of the characters in both the attract mode and a game where the player does not move. Mighty Mouth is a game by A-1 Machines that District Court Judge Warren Keith Urbom described as "for all practical purposes, identical to.

The game was later licensed to Mattel who produced the Intellivision and Atari 2600 home console versions in 1982.

The ghosts were replaced with police, and the thief could temporarily block passages with doors. Here, Pac-Man was replaced with a thief stealing coins from a bank vault. Lock 'n' Chase was developed and published by Data East in Japan in 1981, and was later published in North America by Taito.
