Game History: Where were you 25 years Ago this month?

Lokie · 15-June-05, 08:35 PM

If you are old enough, you would have been right where I was, In front of a Pac-Man machine feeding it quarters.

For a video game, Pac-Man is getting downright old. The ghost-wary hero with an insatiable appetite for dots turns 25 this month.

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From the early 1980s "Pac-Mania" to today's endless sequels and rip-offs, the original master of maze management remains a bright yellow circle on the cultural radar.

But there was more to Pac-Man's broad appeal than eating dots and dodging on-screen archrivals Blinky, Pinky, Inky and Clyde.

"This was the first time a player took on a persona in the game. Instead of controlling inanimate objects like tanks, paddles and missile bases, players now controlled a 'living' creature," says Leonard Herman, author of "Phoenix: The Rise and Fall of Videogames." "It was something that people could identify, like a hero."

Coelacanth · 17-June-05, 06:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Lokie


	If you are old enough, you would have been right where I was, In front of a Pac-Man machine feeding it quarters. For a video game, Pac-Man is getting downright old. The ghost-wary hero with an insatiable appetite for dots turns 25 this month.

I was definitely putting some quarters into a Pac-Man machine, but I was putting a lot more in the machine below. They both came out around the same time, 1980:

HoJo · 17-June-05, 09:18 PM

Lets not forget Space Invaders and Galaga.

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