05-11-2005, 07:05 PM | #1 | ||
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Pac-Man turns 25 this year. (or, Foz feels REALLY OLD)
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05-11-2005, 07:06 PM | #2 |
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wtf is pac-man? I thought he turned 21 this year.... isn't that what the draft reviews said?
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05-11-2005, 07:09 PM | #3 | |
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05-12-2005, 12:20 PM | #4 |
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BTW, SackAttack is taking great glee in telling me that he's as old now as his father was when Pac-Man came out.
He's really upset about the Piano Man Parody, I think
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05-13-2005, 02:17 AM | #5 |
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I loved playing Pac Man on the old machines where you had to sit down on a little stool to play . . . it was easier to put a beer on it while you were playing.
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05-13-2005, 03:00 AM | #6 |
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Who remembers this song called "Pac Man Fever"? They used to play this all the time when I was in the 5th grade back in 81-82 I believe.
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05-13-2005, 03:18 AM | #7 |
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Y'know, I don't wanna say SirFozzie is old, exactly, but he's outlived two Popes.
He was around when Microsoft made their first foray into the home video game console business...and I don't mean the Xbox. The Red Sox went 86 years in between world championships, making five trips to the World Series before winning another one. SirFozzie saw three of those five trips. I'm just sayin'. |
05-13-2005, 06:11 AM | #8 |
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I was never into Pac-Man much. Galaga? Yes. Defender? Oh yeah. But Asteroids was the true quarter-eater.
Edit: Space Invaders, too.
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05-13-2005, 06:22 AM | #9 |
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Considering Adam "Pac-Man" Jones was arrested, as I started to read the title, I figured it would be about that.
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05-13-2005, 08:41 AM | #10 |
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When I was 7-8 years old, I lived in Ridgewood, New Jersey. The town had a law banning kids under the age of 16 from playing video games.
I used to go to this diner in Paramus to play Pac-Man, but they had the German version. Little bit different music, and the ghosts names were all very long (Wehrruffinheimer, Schadenfreudermeunster, etc.). When I moved back to Oklahoma and could once again enter an arcade it felt like the gates of Heaven had opened up to me.
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05-13-2005, 10:50 AM | #11 |
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Apparently the largest arcade in the Northeast is still open.. I might go up in a couple weeks (place called Funspot in Weirs Beach, NH) and play all the games of my youth again)
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05-13-2005, 11:03 AM | #12 |
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Foz there was electricity when you were young?
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05-13-2005, 11:10 AM | #13 | |
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05-13-2005, 11:54 AM | #14 | |
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I was the proud owner of the whole Pac Man Fever album. There were great songs on that album such as: Froggy's Lament Ode to Centiped Do the Donkey Kong Defender The album even came with patterns for each level. Yes . . . I'm old, too. |
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05-13-2005, 01:42 PM | #15 | |
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05-13-2005, 01:45 PM | #16 | |
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I was just hungry when I wrote that. Seeing the pic of the old video games reminded me of the pizza places we went to when I was young. mmmm pizza |
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05-13-2005, 01:47 PM | #17 | |
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05-13-2005, 03:22 PM | #18 | |
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Wow I knew nothing of a whole album of video game songs. But please refrain from you being so old. I still got two years on you, you youngin. |
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05-13-2005, 03:25 PM | #19 | |
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Funny you should mention. The creator of Pac-Man came up with the idea when he looked at his pizza after removing a slice. "pac pac" is the Japanese onomatopoeic sound for eating, and thus...a legend was born. |
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05-13-2005, 03:34 PM | #20 |
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I thought you were talking about this pac-man...
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05-13-2005, 04:05 PM | #21 |
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I lost all respect for Pac-Man after his horrible cartoon, and especially that Christmas special.
He's dead to me. Deader than my own dead mother. |
05-13-2005, 04:45 PM | #22 |
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Hey, I liked that cartoon...then again, I was young (seven, or thereabouts), mallable, and was wooed by anything Pac-Man (had at least one t-shirt, lunchbox, the boardgame, a Pac-Man Halloween costume my sister made from cardboard...I even had a mug which my daughter now enjoys using). Now that my brain wanders over old memories...am I crazy or were there actual food product tie-ins to Pac-Man, as well? I feel like there was a cereal or a Chef Boy-R-Dee pasta that was made.
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05-13-2005, 06:14 PM | #23 |
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I remember there being at least a Pac man Cereal.
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05-13-2005, 06:24 PM | #24 |
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Mmmmmm cereal.
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05-13-2005, 06:39 PM | #25 | |
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08-18-2009, 11:20 PM | #26 |
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This means PacMan turns 30 next year. Gah.
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