Welcome to the world of Pacman
On May 22, 1980,
Namco released Pacman for the First time.
Pac-Man is an arcade game developed by Namco and
distributed in the U.S. by Midway, first released
in Japan on May 22, 1980. Immensely popular in the
United States from its original release to the present day,
PacMan is universally considered as one of the classics
of the medium, virtually synonymous with video games,
and an icon of 1980s popular culture.
The point of this whole game is to eat all pills in
the maze while you avoid the ghosts.
Eat a power-pill to be abled to eat ghosts
(when they turn blue).
We still remember that 'wailing' noise, we still remember
the pills we had to swallow while we are 'on the run'
from the 4 ghosts in order to finish the game,
we still remember the way we would start hunting for
the ghosts once pacman ate the big 'Power pill'.
Pacman eating Pills
Pacman and a Fan
Pacman is the yellow blob (with a mouth) which has to roam round
a maze swallowing little pills.
Meanwhile, four ghosts Blinky(red), Pinky(pink), Inkey(blue),
and of course, Clyde(orange), are chasing you as you listen
to a high-pitched wailing noise.
The days of pacman bring all the nostalgia back,
when we were kids and used to enjoy mindless
pills eating in the Dot Matrix & then eating up the
ghosts and the fruits like cherries, strawberries, apples,
melons, oranges etc.
Pacman game screen
Few Quotes on Pacman:
Computer games don't affect kids, I mean if Pac Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive music
~ Gareth Owen.
Pac-Man didn't occupy its place in commercial culture because consumers wanted to metaphorically imitate an insatiably hungry little yellow ball; they bought because the game was good enough to tap into genuine sources of pleasure
~ Chris Green.
Pacman & Blinky
You can pay your tribute over here, to this awesome game,
playing which we have spend almost all our childhood.