Pac-Gal, Pac-Girl, Poke-Man

In 1982, Al J. Jiménez, about whom nothing can be found elsewhere, wrote three very similar Pac-Man clones using character graphics:

• Pac-Gal, dated May 1982 and mostly monochrome (only the power-ups are green on a color monitor) was probably the original game. You choose the speed by entering a number between 0 and 30000.
• Poke-Man is dated May 1982 as well. Unlike Pac-Gal it is quite colorful, and you choose the speed from a menu with four options.
• Pac-Girl is dated September 26, 1982. It is mostly like Pac-Gal, but the characters are in high intensity, and the speed menu is the same as in Poke-Man.

These are among the earliest Pac-Man clones for the PC, along with Greg Kuperberg's PC-Man and TexaSoft's The Queen of Hearts Maze Game.