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Post by VectorX on May 29, 2020 23:44:39 GMT -5
Wow. In this month, 40 years ago, Pac-Man was released. Seems an entire lifetime ago to me I first caught a glimpse of this at a game room in town called Celebrity Cafe. As someone was playing it, I saw, for a couple of seconds, some yellow thing moving around a maze followed by four blobs in hot pursuit of it with their eyes facing the yellow thing. I thought to myself, "must've been some weird game that bombed". Yeah, well...that became just the opposite Didn't take long at all for that to happen, along with finding out how monstrously cool and great it was as well. Amazing how many sequels, clones, pirated versions (Piranha, some game I saw once where you controlled a worm and there were two sets of escape tunnels), ports, etc. came out not only back then, but also uncountable ones since, and to no end in sight. Hard to believe. Wakka wakka forever!
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Post by TrekMD on May 30, 2020 10:14:44 GMT -5
Oh yeah, lots of things have been done to celebrate. Check these out...
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Post by kokovec on May 31, 2020 12:20:47 GMT -5
I was 10 when a Pac-Man cabinet popped up at our local TV repair shop (remember those?). The line to play the game was very long and so I never got to try it that day. I'll never forget hearing that "wucka-wucka" sound for the first time and seeing those teenagers twist their bodies in unison with the little yellow pizza-looking guy's movements on the screen. When I finally got to play it I couldn't get past the third screen so decided not to waste anymore quarters on it.
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Post by VectorX on May 31, 2020 12:36:24 GMT -5
^Wow, seriously? I "wasted" many tokens on that game and its sequels
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Post by wyldephang on Jun 1, 2020 19:10:05 GMT -5
As I advance in years, it's becoming less and less frequent for me to say that I am "too young" to remember or have lived through something related to gaming, but Pac-Man is one of those uncommon instances. I am an Eighties child, and I have fond memories of Super Mario Bros., Mega Man, and several other NES hits. I didn't come across Pac-Man until after its initial splash, and I remember how it struck me that there was a large contrast between early '80s and late '80s graphics. Beyond that, I was mesmerized by the simple gameplay and controls: Almost everyone can discern that cherries are good and ghosts are bad. But something about the challenge factor kept me coming back, and to this day, I still haven't gotten more than a few screens in without losing a life. (I'm terrible.) Happy 40th, Pac-Man. Game on.
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