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K.C. Munchkin

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March 3, 1982: Pac-Man vs. K.C. Munchkin for Odyssey2

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K.C. Munchkin
March 3rd, 1982 K.C. Munchkin was deemed too much like Pac-Man

1982 – a popular game for the Odyssey2 system was called K.C. Munchkin. However, this game looked a little too much like Pac-Man. A Federal court in Chicago, IL. agreed. They ordered Philips Consumer Electronics to take the game off store shelves. A sequal was released called Crazy Chase, which was a game that mocked the legal battle of the Pac-Mac – K.C. Munchkin. Of course that game was very close to Centipede, which could have caused a new legal issue altogether.

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