Pacman is 30 today!

Dudess

Happ-E burfday lil fella! :pac:

So, who played Pacman in the early 80s?

Mr E

You can play Pacman now - www.google.com :pac::pac::pac:
(Playable logo)

lord lucan

Dudess wrote: »

Happ-E burfday lil fella! :pac:

So, who played Pacman in the early 80s?

Yep,cutting edge stuff it seemed at the time. Was in the Pacman cafe in Orlando a few years ago,'twas Pacman heaven. Think it's closed now.:(

Still play it occasionally,a simple game but good craic.:)

Run_to_da_hills

Much of my misspent youth playing this at the Kingston Arcade in Dunlaoghaire (Former O Briens off license Upper Georges St.)

bonerm

lord lucan wrote: »

Yep,cutting edge stuff it seemed at the time.

Really? Granted the first time I probably played this game was several years after 77 but I never really thought of it as technically innovative. Universally popular & addictive as hell but hardly amazing wrt to audio, graphics etc, surely?

lord lucan

bonerm wrote: »

Really? Granted the first time I probably played this game was several years after 77 but I never really thought of it as technically innovative. Universally popular & addictive as hell but hardly amazing wrt to audio, graphics etc, surely?

Certainly to me as a kid it seemed amazing. Having never seen a computer or arcade machine(apart from on tv) it was a technological marvel in my eyes. Same goes for when my dad bought a C64 in 1984,to me it was cutting edge stuff. Funny looking back at it now,seems like a lifetime ago given the advancements in technology.

On a related note,The Empire Strikes Back was 30 years old yesterday too. It was the first movie my parents ever brought me too. Seen it in the old Ambassador cinema in Dublin. Remember being awestruck by the sights and sounds(i was 6!) and it's still one of my favourite movies now.

stovelid

Donkey Kong ftw

http://www.donkeykongonline.com/donkey-kong-online-game.html

Thomas828

Pac-man and Tetris were the only two games I ever bothered with. And I knew a boy who had worked out how to write a Pac-man program. He wrote a version of the game without the ghosts and the power pills.