Friday, May 21, 2010

Happy 30th Birthday, Pacman!

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Wow, it's Pacman's 30th anniversary! I still remember playing this game for hours and hours on the PC a very long time ago when I was a kid...it was THE game back then.

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The Google homepage has this Pacman game...really nice. Couldn't resist playing it, but playing Pacman with a computer mouse isn't as fun as playing it with a joystick. I can just imagine my kids asking, "What's Pacman? What's a joystick?...What?! Green was the only colour for computer graphics back then??" About 20 years ago I would not have imagined that the graphics displayed on the PC monitor could be as colourful and beautiful as it is today. I still remember doing flowcharts for computer programming and playing Lode Runner (one of my favourite games of all times!) until everything I saw had a strange greenish tinge because I had been glued to the PC for hours and hours trying to get to the next level of the game!

Those were the days...kinda feel old even as I type this...


5 comments:

Phoebeeeee said...

I used to play Lode Runner for hours! hehe...those were good times :)

v.ania. said...

I have Pacman in my iPod! Am I the only that finds the game scary? :P I guess I don't like having objects chasing me like crazy! xD

Sunny-Cookie said...

Phoebeeeee, You too? So I'm not the only one! :D

v.ania, Now that you mention it, maybe that's why I keep having nightmares about being chased and I seem to be running and running! :P

xinyi said...

I agree with v.ania very much..I will get goosebumps everytime i play pacman..

Sunny-Cookie said...

Wah, I didn't know the pacman game is still so popular and 'scary'!