The bug bonus item is from Gaplus, the third game in the Galaga / Galaxian lineage. It's a reference to the links between the Galaxian games and the Pac-Man games. Pac-Man, Ms. Pac-Man, and Jr. Pac-Man are the first, second, and third in a trilogy. (I consider Pac-Man, Super Pac-Man, and Pac & Pal as a separate trilogy) Galaxian, Galaga, and Gaplus are the first, second, and third in their own trilogy. (Heck, Gaplus even has a conversion kit to turn its name into "Galaga 3" in an attempt to make money during the video game crash.) Pac-Man has a Galaxian as a bonus item, Ms. Pac-Man was re-released in Arcades as a double feature with Galaga, and here, Jr. Pac-Plus continues the tradition of references to their space game parallels by putting the bug from Gaplus's bonus stages into Jr. Pac-Man as a bonus item.

See, Pac-Man and Ms. Pac-Man have disappearing dots because they're stationery mazes. If you try to apply that to a SCROLLING maze, that's just gonna make the game unplayable.

@@CosmicToons well that makes this better than Pac-Man Plus & Ms. Pac-Man Plus combined, cause the dots not disappearing here make this so much easier to play than the other two.

@@CosmicToonsProbably because the games work differently in terms of the levels. Pac-Man and Ms. Pac-Man have the dots on the tile layer, while Jr. Pac-Man has them on the sprite layer. The invisibility effect only hides the tile layer and not the sprite layer.

The fruit can blow up the energizers in this version as well.

The fruit won't blow up any energizer it lands on - when it spawns, it actually picks a specific energizer to target. It'll always go for one in the four corners before it targets the middle two. It also won't blow up your last energizer if you only have one left. In this instance the fruit targeted the energizer in the bottom left and happened to walk over another on its way there.

The fruit won't blow up any energizer it lands on - when it spawns, it actually picks a specific energizer to target. It'll always go for one in the four corners before it targets the middle two. It also won't blow up your last energizer if you only have one left. In this instance the fruit targeted the energizer in the bottom left and happened to walk over another on its way there.

The fruit won't blow up any energizer it lands on - when it spawns, it actually picks a specific energizer to target. It'll always go for one in the four corners before it targets the middle two. It also won't blow up your last energizer if you only have one left. In this instance the fruit targeted the energizer in the bottom left and happened to walk over another on its way there.

@@NESAtariSegaNerd ohhh I see

It might have been a choice so that you can still where you are within the maze. Since the maze scrolls they might have thought it'd be unfairly hard to hide *everything*

Since the maze scrolls due to it being larger than the screen can fit, hiding the dots would make this game virtually unplayable.

@@officialSgtPepperArc360 I guess that's true. Good observation.

You can download it via Pac-Scribbles' Twitter.

It’s actually a booting sequence. Peace.

It's obviously on Pac-Scribbles's Twitter page.

You should be able to find it on Pac-Scribbles Twitter.

Uh.. I don't use twitter but I'll try

@@ChristinathegarnetjisooBP You should be able to view it without the need of a Twitter account.