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<\/center><\/p>\nCustom Sprites – Pac-Man<\/a>: New sprites of Pac-Man (Midway marquee, Super Pac-Man, Pac-Mania pose), Baby Pac-Man, Jr. Pac-Man, USA Pac-Man marquee ghost, Kinky (Pac-Man Arrangement)<\/p>\n Mini-logos (Namco)<\/a>: Pac-Man (redid the USA marquee), Baby Pac-Man, Jr. Pac-Man, Super Pac-Man, Pac-Jr.<\/p>\n All new sprites and mini-logos have been added to the GFX Generators<\/a>, where Pac-Man also got a new portrait drawn by me and colored to fit in with the Marvel Super Heroes Vs. portraits. Also added to the Box Tributes in the main generator was a red-top NES Namco overlay.<\/p>\n No description of the 80s Pac-Man craze that you’ll read or hear really does it justice. Starting forty years ago today in Japan (originally known as Puck-Man), Pac-Man’s existence wasn’t just the start of a maze craze or a cementing of video games as more than a fad, but an enduring game style of game play still being used today and the hook of cute characters who never completely left the public consciousness. I saw this unfold when I was a kid and I’ve never seen anything like it since. Figurines (kinda tough to make a poseable Pac-Man with those skinny legs), the sticker\/scratch card\/bubble gum packs, a Saturday morning cartoon, lunchboxes, breakfast cereal (couldn’t be an eighties icon without your own cereal), Buckner and Garcia’s hit “Pac-Man Fever” album (and electro fans know about the original “Pak Man” version of Jonzun Crew’s joint “Pack Jam”), bath towels, mini-gumball machines, board games, vitamins and more merch than you can imagine. Even the news outlets who mocked the phenomenon as a fad eventually started using Pac-graphics to talk about serious news stories. The recent announcement of a new Twitch-based “Pac-Man Live Studio” game<\/a> with customizable mazes is just another sign that the legend still has some lives left.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Come celebrate the 40th anniversary of Pac-Man’s debut as Puck-Man in Japan! New Pac-related sprites, mini-logos and more have been added to the galleries and image generators!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,16,13],"tags":[487,488,322,98,489,486],"class_list":["post-2460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-updates-sb","category-sitenewsmain","category-updates","tag-baby-pac-man","tag-jr-pac-man","tag-ms-pac-man","tag-pac-man","tag-pac-man-arrangement","tag-super-pac-man"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scrollboss.illmosis.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scrollboss.illmosis.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scrollboss.illmosis.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scrollboss.illmosis.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scrollboss.illmosis.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2460"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/scrollboss.illmosis.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2467,"href":"https:\/\/scrollboss.illmosis.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2460\/revisions\/2467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scrollboss.illmosis.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scrollboss.illmosis.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scrollboss.illmosis.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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