PAC-MAN 30th Anniversary

@RawBill1 (8531)
Gold Coast, Australia
May 21, 2010 3:55pm CST
When I was a child, Pacman was one of my favourite games. I had an Atari 2600 game console which plugged into the TV through it's antenna wire socket. We only had a black and white TV at the time which was on it's way out for many years. When we first got a colour TV I remember being amazed at the colours of all of my Atari games as I did not know what their colours were before. Anyway, when I turned on my computer just a few minutes ago I discovered that there is a free Pacman game today on the Google homepage in celebration of the games 30th birthday today. You click the button that says insert coin and you can start playing. Have you seen this yet today? Did you play Pacman as a child like I did? Go to Google right now and have a game. You will love it for sure.
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Wizzywig
@Wizzywig (7847)
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21 May 10
Yes, I remember it. I think we had it on the Vic20. I also remember the ZX81 where the 'graphics' were mostly made up of asterisks & the Spectrum which was in colour...
RawBill AKA MrAusAdventure
@RawBill1 (8531)
• Gold Coast, Australia
21 May 10
I saw that the Vic20 was an earlier version of the Commodore 64. That was popular here and I remember friends having one, but I am not sure if we got the Vic20 here or not. I found this about the ZX81. "The Sinclair ZX81 is such a slow and difficult to use computer, many people found that it works better as a door-stop than as a computer..." I am not sure if this computer ever made it to Australia as I do not remember it at all.
Wizzywig
@Wizzywig (7847)
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22 May 10
Vic 20 : indeed it was, & we had one of those as well... might even still have it in the loft...I think theres an Atari up there and loads of programs. ZX81 : was revolutionary at the time. It started my husbands love of computer games. I always said, it was lucky i got pregnant before we got the computer. I think whichever one we had towards the end of 1983 must've broken because we had our second child in the summer of '84
RawBill AKA MrAusAdventure
@RawBill1 (8531)
• Gold Coast, Australia
24 May 10
Wow, maybe you will have to search them out and see if they still work. Great fun on a rainy English day!
JenInTN
@JenInTN (27514)
• United States
22 May 10
I loved Pacman! I was at the edge of my seat to go to the store where there was a Pacman game with my name on it..lol..later my grandmother sent me a miniture version and I played it all the time.
JenInTN
@JenInTN (27514)
• United States
22 May 10
I have not. It has been years since I played Pacman. I will check it out though. Take care.
RawBill AKA MrAusAdventure
@RawBill1 (8531)
• Gold Coast, Australia
22 May 10
Cool, let me know how far you get!
Patsie Hatley
@Hatley (163781)
• Garden Grove, California
21 May 10
hi rawbill yes years back my son a nd I played it on his computer and had a ball more fun. so thirty years today I would have been fifty three,my son about twenty.How time has flown. I have not seen this yet today so will go take a look at it. thanks Bill.
RawBill AKA MrAusAdventure
@RawBill1 (8531)
• Gold Coast, Australia
21 May 10
Yep, the last 30 years certainly have gone by pretty fast Hatley. They keep getting quicker every year don't they. Yeah, go and have a game. Just because you can!
thogojames
@thogojames (161)
• United States
21 May 10
thanx man, i loved pac-man when i was growing up......simple yet very fulfiling...and it doesnt giveyou headches when you play it for a long period..
RawBill AKA MrAusAdventure
@RawBill1 (8531)
• Gold Coast, Australia
21 May 10
It is a simple yet addictive concept. I could never have imagined the type of gaming that there is now when I was playing these simple games in the 1980's!