TheAtari2600kid Posted May 2, 2016 Share Posted May 2, 2016 Pac-Man.avi It’s the year 1981, the Atari 2600 or the VCS was at the height of the popularity and sales were at an all-time high for Atari. The VCS was also rebadged as the Sears Video Arcade and sold through Sears, and other stores. Pac man a very popular game title was in arcades and Atari wanted to bring that into the living room with the family. So Atari wanted a Pac-Man game on the market for their VCS system and they wanted it now. So they commanded Tod Frye to make a cover art, code all in little to no time frame. Frye began work on a prototype version. The company wanted to release the prototype to capitalize on the 1981 Christmas. Development was hindered by the technical differences between the original Pac - Man’s hardware and that of the Atari 2600. The original's arcade boards stored four times as much as a ROM in addition to 2KB of both video and general RAM. The memory types are used to store and switch between sprites. By contrast, the Atari 2600 had only 128B (1/16 of the arcade board) of general RAM and none dedicated to video. At the end of development marketing manager Frank Ballouz tried the game out for himself before sending it to market and manufacture. Soon playing the game he can hear weird beeping noises in the game, the game started to glitch out with the score 0 after playing through level one. He began to question Frye of why he saw that. Frye said it is a work in progress come back tomorrow and he will have it fixed. The next day he walks in and asks where is Frye and coworkers say he has not been seen in a while and he comes into work mostly every day but they were all high so no one has seen him. He walks into the play testing room and sees a Pac-Man cartridge with the words PLAY ME on the front and on the back says HIGH SCORE: 0 all written on with Red Sharpie. He began to play the first time he turn it on we was meet with a red screen with a high pitch noise in the back. So he turned it off and tried it again but this time it worked. It was in color and he played. Pac-Man acted different than the last time he played he kept running into the ghost and the pellet only worked once. Then the screen went crazy with Pac-Man in the corner dieing over and over then he restarted the game to see if that fixed it. It only worked for a second and it happened again and then the screen went black and then he stopped. When he walked out no one was there. He asked “How long was I playing”. He took the cartridge and hid it for a long time until found by a collector in Kentucky in 2015. At the Classic Game Fest Frye ask the collector where did he get cartridge, he replied “I have Pac-Man Fever.” Written By, Devin McCarthy YouTube link to Pac-Man.avi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYhz5cXk5u4 source's Wikipedia Google Atari Age 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheAtari2600kid Posted May 4, 2016 Author Share Posted May 4, 2016 I hope you like the story Soon I plan on posting this on the creepy pasta wiki Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BladeOfOsiris Posted May 4, 2016 Share Posted May 4, 2016 Atari creepy pasta huh. Looks like Ferg will have to create a new segment... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheAtari2600kid Posted May 9, 2016 Author Share Posted May 9, 2016 Who's Ferg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dauber Posted May 13, 2016 Share Posted May 13, 2016 Who's Ferg The host of this.... http://2600gamebygamepodcast.blogspot.com/ ....and cohost of this: http://intarivisions.blogspot.com/ You need to listen. Even if for no other reason, that Ferg is a really nice guy. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheAtari2600kid Posted July 7, 2016 Author Share Posted July 7, 2016 OK i sent a email to Ferg to see what he thinks about the story 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ferghead Posted July 13, 2016 Share Posted July 13, 2016 I had to look up what creepy pasta meant. It's fun! I like the end part, kinda comes out of left field. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheAtari2600kid Posted July 15, 2016 Author Share Posted July 15, 2016 I'm Glad you like it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheAtari2600kid Posted October 2, 2016 Author Share Posted October 2, 2016 I had to look up what creepy pasta meant. It's fun! I like the end part, kinda comes out of left field. Ferg Thank you so much for including this story i wrote on your Podcast Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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