…(‘Pac-Man’) that will only be available on his collector’s edition that I unfortunately will not be picking up. Even the $200 bare-bones version is rather rich for my blood. They’ve extended the ‘guaranteed delivery’ pre-order deadline to March 20th, though, so by all means jump on it.
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Oh, and if you were trying to remember where that online Pac-Man thing was…
…it was the Google Doodle for May 21, 2010. Link here: there doesn’t seem to be any way to get it to embed, sorry. But, hey: we can play it on a browser tab, these days! Funny old world and funny old future shock, hey?
Masaya Nakamura has passed.
He was 91. For those who don’t know: Masaya Nakamura was the CEO of Namco, which is of course the company that gave us Pac-Man. It is not that video games would have never been created if Namco had stayed exclusively in the amusement park ride business; it is that the entire industry would be different today if Namco had. Arcade games shaped them from the start, and arcade games are the way that they are based on decisions made by Nakamura. That’s a powerful influence to have on popular culture.
My condolences to his family and loved ones.
“Pac-Man.” (Weird Al Yankovic)
No, this one is real. Incredibly obscure, but real.
Marvel at the revolution in digital cinema.
Now clunky conversions of video games into bad movies can be done credibly on the local level, instead of by Hollywood!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=l7oadchZMYA
Mind you, as Aaron Williams implies this development makes Uwe Boll obsolete, which is apparently a WIN made of titanium for the gaming community.
Moe Lane
PS: What’s that? Hold up…. OK, here you go.