K.C. Munchkin!

Lawsuit

K.C. Munchkin! was involved in one of the first legal rulings in video games. It was developed to "to come as close to Pac-Man as legally possible", in programmer Ed Averett's own words. Atari, which was the only licensed company to produce home versions of Pac-Man, sued Magnavox trying to force them to stop K.C. Munchkin!'s production, which started one year before Atari's version was ready. Magnavox won the lower court decision, but the appellate court later overturned it. After K.C. Munchkin! was forced off the market, Magnavox released a sequel, K.C.'s Krazy Chase, with enough differences to make it "legally safe". An interview with Ed Averett covers this and other video game stories.

Title

The game was named after Kenneth C. Meinken, Jr., Magnavox's president at the time.