Retro Gaming Rocks!

Don't ask me how, but somehow the conversation in the office yesterday turned to Pac Man. 

It is entirely possible we were discussing neurosurgery and, somehow, inexplicably, we managed to steer the conversation to something as trivial as a 1980s arcade classic.  The only shock is that the topic of conversation is actually quite a long way from scraping the barrel of filth where most of our conversations reside.

 

Anyway, yeah, Pac Man..

Dr Magnetic (he of the very moribund blog) mentioned that somebody had worked out that the ghosts went on different paths depending upon which fruit was shown in the maze (if you don't know Pac Man, I ain't going to explain it to you.. Needless to say, it's basic premise of running about in a darkened room, popping pills and listening to repetitive music could be seen as a reason that techno nightclubs were so popular in the late nineties!).  I found this hard to believe that a) the ghosts weren't random and b) that someone had sat there and worked out this fact.. It turns out to be true, though, as we looked it up on the font of all knowledge worth knowing: Wikipedia.

 

And on Wikipedia, it showed that Pac Man had been converted to be available on the XBox 360 (from the live arcade).

Home.

Live Arcade

Download.

Done.

Yay!!

 

Pac Man in all it's 1980's glory.

I used to be quite good at this, but I sucked for the first couple of games last night..

But what a faithful conversion - it rocks!!!