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We’ve featured a number of great art shows that took place at Gallery 1988 before, but that’s because they have so much awesomely geeky stuff go through there. Their most recent show, Multiplayer x2, focuses exclusively on classic games of the past including Castlevania, Mario and Pac Man. If you happen to be in LA before March 3, be sure check it out.
Link Via Laughing Squid
It’s a crazy concept, but Pac-Man and Middle Aged Mega Man are now part of fighting game history thanks to the upcoming release Street Fighter X Tekken! And, while Mega Man is fat and old in this game, and Pac-Man is piloting some clunky robotic body armor instead of simply chomping down on the opposition, I think they still make a colorful addition to the fighting game genre.
Combining a crazy assortment of characters into a fighting game worked for Super Smash Bros., so this doesn’t seem so far fetched to me. What does seem like a stretch, however, is the idea of a Pac person battling through a tournament full of fierce opponents without the aid of Power Pellets!
–via Destructoid
Watch as Pac-Man lets down Ms. Pac-Man, and his little Pac children, by succumbing to Skyrim addiction. This NSFW pixel animation is very relatable these days, as Skyrim has created an epidemic of video game addiction virtually unmatched since the world was introduced to Warcraft.
C’mon Pac-Man, you know if you don’t bring home those power pellets the Ms. is going to let herself get caught by a ghost!
–via GeeksAreSexy
Color has always played a key part in the style of video games, and the evolution from 2 to millions of on-screen colors parallels the advancement in game console technology. This bright, cheery infographic shows how far video game colors have come from the days of Pong and Pac-Man.
Here’s a ghost story that’s not too scary -because it’s a game of Pac-Man right there on the sidewalk! -via Geeks Are Sexy
It is the duty of all parents to teach their children those essential life skills that are passed down from generation to generation. Fine work, Nathan Glemboski. Someday your son will thank you.
-via Kotaku
You know your city’s subway station is clean and vandal free when awesome works of art, like these 8 bit artworks made out of tile, cover the walls without fear of being defaced.
This subway station in Stockholm, Sweden is full of cool pixel art featuring Pac Man, Space Invaders, and other designs that show the Swedes appreciation of pixel art. There are lot more pics of this neat station art at the link below, don’t you wish your local subway station was this bright and cheery?
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Everything about this short film by Random Encounters is great: the claymation, the sound effects, and most of all, the lyrics. I used to be sympathetic to the ghosts. But now, not so much. They get what’s coming to them.
-via Nerd Bastards
Wind-Up Pac-Man & Ghost – $9.95
Attention Pac-Man fans! Now you can relive the golden age of video arcade games with the Wind-Up Pac-Man & Ghost set from the NeatoShop. This fantastic Pac-Man and Blinky, the red ghost, set will have you wound up with excitement and hungry for play. Nom. Nom. Nom.
Be sure to check out the NeatoShop for more great Cubicle Toys.
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What's yellow and goes waka waka waka? Me* eating this super cute Pac-Man dumplings! From New York's new dim sum joint Red Farm, found via Kotaku.
*Yes, I'm Asian, and yes, they're technically Pac-Man ghost dumplings
If Pac-Man was a first person shooter game, this is what it would look like. Now, someone needs to make this playable ASAP! -via The Daily What Geek
This is what Pac-Man would be like as a first person RPG, if you were playing it in a car. Maybe. -via The Daily What
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Sam Q. Kim, a guy with a lot of time on his hands (and great willpower to not just om nom all of those gummies) made a stop motion video of the little bears representing Tetris, Pac-Man, Breakout and more. It’s really cute, but now I have a sugar craving.
Link via Geekologie
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To promote the new Internet Explorer 9, Soap Creative developed a Pac-Man game that involves thousands of user-submitted screens, and could take years to play. Link to story. Link to game. -via Simply Left Behind
Photo: hello naomi [Flickr]
Nom nom nom … waka waka waka? There are a lot of Pac-Man-inspired cakes out there, but these Pac-Man wedding cupcakes by Baker Hello Naomi (previously featured on Neatorama) are quite ambitious: Link
Why, it’s perfect for this Pac-Man Power Up Energy Drink from the NeatoShop!
Previously on Neatorama: Pac-Man and Ghost Cakes
It’s like Tron in reverse – characters from beloved games of yore are stepping off the grid and invading our reality. My lifelong dream of having a drink with Q*Bert may finally come true!
8-bitscapes, a collaboration between artist Jamie Sneddon & photographer Kevin Rozario-Johnson, brings classic video game characters to the real world, and the results are both spectacular and just a teensy bit menacing.
With a ‘giant nod’ towards the world of 8-bit gaming, the artists have produced a series of 8, strictly limited edition prints. These thought provoking images re-imagine well loved, iconic retro digital characters in real life scenarios. Framing them forever as they munch, invade, race, battle and bleep their way around planet EARTTTTTHHHHHH!!
Artists Benedetto Bufalino and Benedict Deseille installed these lights as part of the Festival of Trees and Lights in Geneva, Switzerland. Seeing these would surely “brighten up” the evening commute! Link -via The Daily What
This clever stop-motion ad for Moleskine notebooks promotes their anniversary line of Pac-Man notebooks. Link -via The Daily What
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Deviant Art member Kalapusa, who gave us the Super Mario Bros. Piranha Plant Sculpture, has created a “realistic” yet very alien version of Pac-Man. See more pictures at Geekologie. Link -via Holy Kaw!
Despite having watched more than my fair share of television in the 1980s, I somehow missed out on these over-the-top commercials (except the Mario Bros. one). Milo assembled 8 of the craziest video game spots from the era where marketers learned the best way to reach young people: shout at them and crank the bad music.
via Digg, where commenter kevro points to other examples starring a young Tobey Maguire and Jack Black.
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Hah! This one is clever: someone in Japan has created a Pac-Man wallpaper for your iPhone that turns your app icons into a maze for the dot-munchin’ Pac-Man!
Link | Original Website [Japanese] – via Laughing Squid
Martin Refsal created this whimsical artwork in honor of Pac-Man’s 30th anniversary. This will make it easier to recognize a Pac-Man ghost when you see one! Link -via Holy Kaw!
Google’s celebration of Pac-Man’s 30th anniversary was fun, enabling people to play Pac-Man on their main search page, either as a one- or two-player game. And people certainly took advantage of the opportunity, spending approximately 4,819,352 hours on the game alone. The result is approximately $120 million in productivity lost, in one day.
Thankfully, Google tossed out the logo with pretty low “perceived affordance” – they put an “insert coin” button next to the search button, but I imagine most users missed that. In fact, I’d wager that 75% of the people who saw the logo had no idea that you could actually play it. Which the world should be thankful for.
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In honor of Pac-Man’s 30th birthday, SF Weekly has collected ten different kinds of Pac-Man cakes! From the simple “someone took a piece” cake to the elaborate setup you see in this cake Jenny made for Omar Kooheji’s birthday, you’ll see something that will whet your appetite. Link -via Digg
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This movie doesn’t exist, but it should. It’s called Pac-Man: The Movie. Check out the movie trailer:
Pharmaceutical CEO Michael Pacman is forced to take his own dangerous medications in order to survive a maze designed by a sadistic patient out for revenge.
This 2-minute trailer satirizes and skewers Hollywood’s love for taking video games with barely any plot (e.g. Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat, etc.) and turning them into abominably bad feature films. In this trailer, Pacman is given the “Saw” treatment — enter a dark and disturbing world filled with pellets, ghosts, and yes, Pacman.
Link [embedded Vimeo clip] – directed by Patrick Brady and Allyson Schettino of Therefore Productions.
Comments Off Three computer scientists at Colorado University programmed several Roomba robotic vacuum cleaners to act like Pac-Man and the ghosts which chase him. Jack Elston, Cory Dixon, and Maciej Stachura did so in order to demonstrate the unmanned aerial system that they are developing. Click on the link for more videos, pictures, and schematics for this project.
Link via CrunchGear
Nom … nom … nom … We’ve just gotten our delivery of these wonderful Pac-Man Hotheads pot holder / oven mitt. After years of chomping down on ghosts, Pac-Man is back for a new mission: protecting your hands from hot handles and piping hot cookie pans.
Link: Pac-Man HotHead – $14.95 | We’ve also gotten the Calf & Half Creamer back in stock
Previously at Neatorama: Gaillard’s Super Mario Kart.
Armando Lee of the Astronomical League of the Philippines, F. Naelga Jr., and 100 Hours of Astronomy took this fantastic photo of a partial eclipse of the Sun over Manila Bay, which was showcased on APOD. I couldn’t resist putting on the obvious googly eyes … Come on, you know you’re thinking it too!
