Has anyone else noticed the Pac-Man manual?

[+atari2600land]

In the upper right hand corner, where it says "Intellivision," they show an artist's rendition of the Atari 2600 version, not the Intellivision version. I guess they wanted the people buying it to think it was similar to their Atari version? I don't know.

[TPR]

  

13 hours ago, atari2600land said:

I guess they wanted the people buying it to think it was similar to their Atari version? I don't know.

 

I'm assuming you're taking about this:

Why does everyone always want to assume there is some sort of conspiracy going on?  As someone who made many game manuals in the 80s, I can tell you that sometimes you just use whatever assets you have at hand laying around and there's a very good chance that the person who designed that manual, probably never even saw the Intellivision version of the game and probably had no clue whatsoever that it was different. 

 

They were probably also given like an hour to put together that manual and box, and let's be honest, it could have been a brown paper bag that said "Pac-Man" on it in Crayon and it would have sold a bazillion copies, so just be happy there was any graphical element to the box or the manual to begin with.... 

[+DZ-Jay]

1 hour ago, TPR said:

  

 

I'm assuming you're taking about this:

Why does everyone always want to assume there is some sort of conspiracy going on?  As someone who made many game manuals in the 80s, I can tell you that sometimes you just use whatever assets you have at hand laying around and there's a very good chance that the person who designed that manual, probably never even saw the Intellivision version of the game and probably had no clue whatsoever that it was different. 

 

They were probably also given like an hour to put together that manual and box, and let's be honest, it could have been a brown paper bag that said "Pac-Man" on it in Crayon and it would have sold a bazillion copies, so just be happy there was any graphical element to the box or the manual to begin with.... 

 

I was just about to say a similar thing.  Plus, why would they want everyone to think that the Intellivision version was as crappy and limited as the Atari VCS version?

 

   dZ.