Category Archives: Pac-Man

Hangin’ with Ben Cooper

Posted on October 18, 2012 by

My wife has recently been obsessed by crappy Halloween costumes, and I figured that might be a decent subject for a post. Perhaps the most famous manufacturer of such costumes was Ben Cooper, Inc., a company that started out making … Continue reading →

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Careful What You Pac

Posted on May 23, 2012 by

In honor of Pac-Man’s thirty-second anniversary (the game came out on 22 May 1980), I come bearing Pac-Man trivia. The game is known in Japan as Pakkuman, with “pakkun” meaning ” to eat whole,” based on the onomatopoeia for opening … Continue reading →

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Karting with Enemies

Posted on May 23, 2012 by

When you stop to think about it, the Mario Kart games, and by extension the other Mario sports titles, don’t make a whole lot of sense. Why would Mario and his friends go out for a go-kart race or baseball … Continue reading →

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To Beat the Unbeatable Game

Posted on January 26, 2012 by

I was thinking recently about the concept of unwinnable video games, and whether there were any. I believe that, at the time, I had noticed a Franz Kafka book at the library, and thought that a game based on a … Continue reading →

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Super Scario Bros.

Posted on October 15, 2010 by

Since I’m loosely following a Halloween theme with many of my posts this month, today I’m going to look at the spookier enemies in the Mario series. Perhaps the first qualifying being is the Phanto, a sort of animated theatrical … Continue reading →

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Game Girls

Posted on May 19, 2010 by

(Picture by Kuroi Tsuki) I’m sure this topic has been addressed in many ways in many other forums, but I’m going to weigh in on it anyway. It’s the role of women in video games, particularly the earlier ones. Once … Continue reading →

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