Post Tagged with: "pac-man"

Google Celebrates Pac-Man’s 30th Birthday With Playable Logo Game

If you head on over to Google.com today you’ll be treated to a classic pac-dot eating power pellet chomping chase down of Blinky, Pinky, Inky, and Clyde in celebration of Pac-Man’s 30th birthday …

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Merry Christmas from Ripten (Special Video Collection)

Outside of spending time with family, stuffing my face with food, and opening a crap-load of presents, my favorite thing about Christmas (and just about every other holiday) is the specials that appear on TV. Remember that time Pac-Man saved Christmas? How about that age old Christmas carol that talks about the Batmobile losing a [...]

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Pac-Man Hacked Roombas Mix Futuristic Cleaning with Retro Gaming

Hate sitting on your couch watching your Roomba do all the work? Boring you say? You could get off your ass and do it yourself, but that would require actual movement. No sweat. A team of geeked-out developers with a cleaning fetish hacked into a few Roomba units and dressed them up like Pac-Man, Pinky, [...]

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Pac-Man World Record broken, again

Kotaku reports that the world record for playing Pac-Man has once again been broken. The last record was set by getting every pill, every possible ghost, every piece of fruit and playing until level 256, where the game crashes. The previous record for this was done in 3 hours, 42 minutes, and 4 seconds. The [...]

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Pac-Man Cereal Commercial with Christian Bale

That’s right! That’s John Connor himself dancing in joy over a marshmallow-filled Pac-Man cereal. It’s hard to see the resemblance with him being so young, but a visit to Internet Movie Database confirmed it. Batman loves his marshmallow.

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Pac-Man Did It: NFL Player Adam Jones Ditches Evil Videogame Nickname

We can’t wait to read his book “How Pacman ruined my life” News from the world of the National Football League is that former 1st round draft pick by the Tennessee Titans, Adam “Pacman” Jones (currently with the Dallas Cowboys), has publicly requested to the press that he no longer be referred to as “Pacman”. [...]

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Videogame Comics From The Librarianist

Billy Scafuri, writer for the webcomic The Librarianist, tipped us off to a few great game-related comics from his website. Although the comic isn’t solely focused on games, a few of these will be instantly familiar to fans of classic games like Pac-Man, Asteroids, and Punch Out. Check out more after the jump.

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Top Ten Developers – #2 Namco

The golden era of videogames is a hot topic among gamers, mainly because many game enthusiasts don’t agree when the gaming utopia took place.

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Atari’s “Goodwill” Hunting Complete – Reported Losses Exceed $70 Million

Even Namco’s Pac-Man would have a hard time swallowing these numbers. After initially delaying a formal announcement in June while the company calculated their “goodwill impairment charge” Atari of America, headquartered in New York, has released a financial statement today reporting a net loss of (cover your ears Pac-Man) $71.3 million.

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