How a bunch of MIT dropouts created Ms. Pac-Man

One of the most popular games in history was essentially the result of a bunch of college dropouts reverse-engineering someone else’s game.

Steve Golson, who worked at Ms. Pac-Man developer General Computer Corporation, talked at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco about the creation of the arcade classic, which was the most popular American-made arcade game and sold over 115,000 cabinets, and it was one of the first sequels to a major hit for a franchise that lives on to this day.