Stormtrooper of Death Posted May 22 Share Posted May 22 (edited) HAPPY BIRTHDAY: Pac-Man The first ever Pac-Man machine—then called Puck-Man—was installed in a Tokyo movie theater on May 22, 1980. Happy 44th anniversary. And here is the older video of the 40th aniversary, made by Bandai Namco Edited May 22 by Stormtrooper of Death 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rybags Posted May 22 Share Posted May 22 Probably my least liked and played of the high profile games during the golden era of arcades. The weird thing though... I'm just about sure I first heard of (and possibly saw) it as "Ghost Muncher" on a radio ad or something - but that game supposedly only exists as a dual bootleg with Galaxian so was probably never authorised by Namco. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+CharlieChaplin Posted May 22 Share Posted May 22 Did he ever mary Ms. Pacman ? I do not think so, a wedding was never officially announced. Still he made her pregnant and Pacman Junior was born several months later. And then, instead of marrying her, he went on an ego-trip and became Superman, errm, Super Pacman. What an egoistic and ego-centric asshole. Besides, where is Ms. Pacman today? Left outside alone with hundreds of Pacman children and living in poverty and from social care. And you are celebrating Pacman ? Unbelievable... 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scm2000 Posted May 22 Share Posted May 22 I remember putting many quarters into the Pac Man machine at our college town bar. At some point they upgraded it to the modified version that had more screens. There was a phenomenon back then called "Pac Man elbow (or wrist)" yup, I had that. We were all Comp Sci people and were fascinated by what micros could do at the time 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gibstov Posted May 22 Share Posted May 22 On the topic of Pac-Man. We never did get a port of Pac-Land for the Atari. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Zeptari Posted May 23 Share Posted May 23 10 hours ago, Gibstov said: On the topic of Pac-Man. We never did get a port of Pac-Land for the Atari. https://atariage.com/software_page.php?SoftwareLabelID=1906 crap, never mind.. I really need to read which forum I’m in before I post. Pac-Land would have been a great addition to the 8bit library if released. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrathchild Posted May 23 Share Posted May 23 17 hours ago, Gibstov said: We never did get a port of Pac-Land for the Atari. From @Jetboot Jack's old pages "A series of concept pieces that were made to present to Grandslam Entertainment in the UK whilst trying to secure the Pacland license. Each screen was created with sprites designed to work 100% on the real 8bit. Only initial screen structure coding was completed on this title, the mockup screens below as real character set and Player Missile screens on the XE, but I’ve been unable to locate the files to date…" 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jetboot Jack Posted May 23 Share Posted May 23 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+MrFish Posted May 23 Share Posted May 23 Here are a couple more images. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+LS650 Posted May 23 Share Posted May 23 To mark the occasion, I played a couple of games of the original Pac-Man arcade ROM on my Gamestation Pro, followed by some arcade Jr. Pacman. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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