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Anonymous Mon Jul 31 11:13:58 2023 No.10113559 [Reply] [Original]

why was Pac-Man so popular even for the early 80s it's average

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 31 11:15:57 2023 No.10113561 >>10113559 Never cared much for the og Pac-Man, but love the franchise as a whole. Pac-Land is my jam

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 31 11:16:42 2023 No.10113562 >>10113559 It really took off with Ms. Pac-Man

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 31 11:18:06 2023 No.10113563 >>10113562 incel bros we lost...

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 31 11:21:00 2023 No.10113567 File: 255 KB, 1152x860, 1684582640184329.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10113563 We're recruiting new members among our ranks every day.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 31 11:28:54 2023 No.10113575 it was one of the first (the first?) good games, and being something new everybody wanted to give it a try. being cheap helped, you didnt have to buy the whole cabinet.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 31 11:36:52 2023 No.10113585 >>10113559 It's a genuinely good game OP. You really don't like Pac-Man? What about Galaga and Galaxian? Or Dig Dug

Anonymous Mon Jul 31 11:47:19 2023 No.10113597

>>10113559
Something that is rarely talked about is how games play into national primal instincts. Pac-Man got so big in America because it touched 2 subconscious desires of every American:
1) eat as much as possible;
2) run away from your problems—debt, ghosts of the past, aging, etc.
It is a final point of an American dream—become a 300lb fatty while being several millions in debt.
This is the reason why yuro platformers all had these empty fields with lots of pointless coins in them. Historically, yuros depended on wheat and rye crops; the more they collected, the happier they felt. Collecting endless amounts of small golden things touches subconscious desires of yuros, making them feel accomplished and safe; it sends a signal to their brain that they have enough fat for the winter.
Now you know why Bomberman is so beloved in the Middle East.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 31 11:50:46 2023 No.10113606 >>10113559 >why was Pac-Man so popular even for the early 80s it's average Its not average and was an excellent game in its era. You were obviously not even born then so who asked for your worthless opinion?

Anonymous Mon Jul 31 11:54:47 2023 No.10113609

>>10113597
No one cares what you think as long as you stay in the middle east on your containment barren wasteland away from civilisation. Always remember, video games and computers and digital computing and arcade games and the internet were invented by western nations. You're just worshiping the US and EU mentally every time you touch a computer or games console. This makes you spite post against your civilizational superiors even funnier.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 31 11:55:25 2023 No.10113610 >>10113559 datda-datda-dat--daa datda-datda-dat--daa datda-datda-dat--daa ba-um-ba-um-ba-um-bum!

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 31 13:41:37 2023 No.10113807 File: 259 KB, 850x1100, 29169301.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10113562 The whole history of Ms. Pac-Man is fascinating. Sucks for the guys who created it with Namco not wanting to honor the agreement they had with Midway

>>	Dave Mon Jul 31 13:45:24 2023 No.10113812 >>10113559 autism and it's not a bad arcade game

>>	Dave Mon Jul 31 13:47:51 2023 No.10113821 >>10113597 your take on euros is fucking retarded

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 31 13:48:03 2023 No.10113824 File: 188 KB, 1024x1325, e3eb024952c37fb328e66e2d9e48e18c.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10113567 According to the graph it looks like women have sex with more than one man, or multiple women have sex with the same men...

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 31 13:53:05 2023 No.10113837 Like Donkey Kong, it was really big at the time and has had near constant sequels. Unlike Donkey Kong, the only better sequel came out when the original was still popular.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 31 13:56:53 2023 No.10113846 I can play Pac Man for days. It grabs me in a way other games from the era don't. I love the guy.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 31 14:30:50 2023 No.10113921 >>10113559 What games were beating it in the 80s?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 31 14:48:15 2023 No.10113945 >>10113597 fucking retard lmao

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 31 15:20:40 2023 No.10114000 >>10113837 I prefer Pac-Man 2 over Pac-Man 1

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 31 15:21:39 2023 No.10114003 >>10113824 Prompt and model pls

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 31 15:26:25 2023 No.10114010 >>10113559 what other early 80s titles were there?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 31 15:47:27 2023 No.10114082 >>10113559 music u s i c

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 31 15:48:01 2023 No.10114084 >>10113807 pac mom is better

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 31 19:27:59 2023 No.10114602 >>10113559 Because in the early 80s there weren't a lot of options.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 31 20:30:53 2023 No.10114789 >>10113597 based idiot post

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 31 20:46:38 2023 No.10114826 >>10113597 >Autists reeing in the replies and not getting the joke I appreciate your funny post anon, keep it up.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 31 20:52:06 2023 No.10114842 >>10113559 I've seen some shit bait in my time, but this...yeesh

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 31 20:54:05 2023 No.10114848 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpxSA9XC9zs THIS was the alternative at the time.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 31 21:42:07 2023 No.10114959 >>10114848 apply directly to the forehead

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 31 21:45:18 2023 No.10114969 >>10113561 I think Pac-Man is fine, but I prefer other Namco games like Galaga, Dig Dig, Mappy or even more recent games like Mr. Driller over it. Also think Ms. Pac-Man or Pac-Man Arrangement are better Pac-Man games over the original.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 31 21:47:01 2023 No.10114973 >>10114969 Ugh, I meant Dig Dug, not Dig Dig. But my point still stands.

Anonymous Mon Jul 31 22:03:41 2023 No.10115028
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>>10113559
it is a testament, to the fleeting nature of our existence;
pacman mad namco BILLIONS (with a "B")
in 1980s money,
it was the number one selling arcade cabinet in the history of the world (still is)

it goes to show, that in this life -
it doesn't matter how successful you are
it all becomes forgotten, ash to ash, dust to dust
there is nothing new under the sun

it has been less than 50 years
its now "rare to find" a working pacman pcb
you almost never see the once ubiquitous cabinets in the wild

i worked for elementary schools for nearly a decade;
when asking the kids "whos this"
they can recognize mario, yoshi, mickey, even sonic
show them pacman and they have no idea what it is

when the oldfags die
pacman will die along with it
pacman represents the transitory nature of human existence

impermanence

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 1 02:21:49 2023 No.10115789 >>10114084 The hat fucking sucks. Just admit you like hags.

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 1 02:22:21 2023 No.10115792 File: 135 KB, 1080x529, take the pledge botty.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10113824

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 1 02:44:47 2023 No.10115883 >>10113559 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaMqfKE4CF0

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 1 06:19:25 2023 No.10116381 >>10113610 Are you ok?

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 1 06:25:14 2023 No.10116393 >>10115028 >its now "rare to find" a working pacman pcb Sure a lot of what you said might be accurate, but I do disagree with this. PacMan PCBs are fairly reliable and pretty easily reparable when they do fail.

Anonymous Tue Aug 1 09:18:44 2023 No.10116614

>>10113606
plenty of games at that time were better and I really doubt you or anyone on vr is old enough to remember 1980 and besides can no one judge the quality of books from the 1800s or earlier since everyone who was around when they first released is dead?

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 1 09:57:56 2023 No.10116652 >>10113807 midway try to fucked over namco not the other way.

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 1 10:07:13 2023 No.10116663 File: 7 KB, 221x228, pacgakken.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10113559 It was a lot of fun and women liked it too. I could put hours into any knockoff pacman like pic related or the several I had on Vic20.

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 1 11:21:17 2023 No.10116746 first character in games history. appealing to every demographic not just men with their space ships and war shiet. also fun game fr

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 1 11:50:46 2023 No.10116790 >>10116393 theyre common for arcade boards due to sheer numbers but us vintage electronics refurb/repair fags are the minority the majority of them are in scrap heaps

Anonymous Tue Aug 1 17:47:58 2023 No.10117680

Ms. Pac-Man was my mom's favorite game, she didn't care to play anything else besides Tempest when she hung out in arcades as a kid/teen, but it was mostly just Ms. Pac-Man she played. My first console was a Genesis and she bought Ms. Pac-Man with it, and it was only that and the first Sonic that she played... but she barely played Sonic, only did it when I begged her to. She never played any other game.

I figure the initial attraction to it was because it's a girly themed game with romantic cutscenes (believe it or not they were cool at the time despite being very simple) and chasing the high score was addictive. It appealed to a girl like her who was stuck hanging out at the arcade with the boys despite not having an interest in gaming, probably the '80s equivalent of women who play a lot of candy crush today without ever touching a console besides maybe to boot up Netflix on their boyfriend's.

Her continued interest in it as an adult is probably just pure nostalgia, but I'm 36 and haven't seen her play it since I was probably like 6 lol.

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 1 17:55:10 2023 No.10117694 >>10116663 >and women liked it too Yup, ms.pacman was quite a popular thing that brought a bunch of women into gaming back in the 80s

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 1 19:07:18 2023 No.10117901 >>10113559 Compared to what?

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 2 01:18:07 2023 No.10118879 >>10113561 Pac-Mania for me. Super Pac-Man, Pac & Pal and the bunch of the post-original ones are pretty fun. I'm eyeing a big discount on one of the latest Arcade 1up cabinets but I know damn well it's wasted money

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 2 03:14:51 2023 No.10119125 >>10113807 >created Literally just a romhack. Do you think romhackers and modders should be paid?

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