Does the original Pac-Man have a plot?

[Anonymous No.5224982]

What is it about? No one seems to know.

[Anonymous No.5224991]

The monsters are trying to get him, but he tries to eat the pucks and the monsters

[Anonymous No.5225007]

Arcade games from that era rarely had plots. Home ports of them sometimes tacked one on, but those plots weren't always the same. There's like 5 different "official plots" for Centipede found in various manuals for various home releases.

[Anonymous No.5225018]

>>5225007
Yars' Revenge had deepest lore

[Anonymous No.5225026]

>>5225018
Yar's Revenge isn't an arcade game, though. Console games usually had plots.

[Anonymous No.5225029]

Don't mind me, just dumping Asteroids: The Official Novelization

[Anonymous No.5225031]

>>5225029

[Anonymous No.5225034]

>>5224982
games do not need stories, you just want to press buttons for a few hours and rot your brain.
also, writing in so called "AAA" games is still on par with your average B-movie.

[Anonymous No.5225032]

>>5225031

[Anonymous No.5225035]

>>5225032

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>>5225035

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>>5225036

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>>5225038

[Anonymous No.5225045]

>>5225042

[Anonymous No.5225047]

>>5225045

[Anonymous No.5225048]

>>5225047

[Anonymous No.5225049]

>>5225048

[Anonymous No.5225050]

>>5225049

[Anonymous No.5225053]

>>5225050
The end.

It fascinates me that this actually exists.

[Anonymous No.5225056]

>>5225029
>Strohmeyer
"Strohmeyer is a name of German-Jewish descent"

The prophecy is true
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdjEPqWjTeU

[Anonymous No.5225062]

It's about a living Pizza stuck in a haunted Pizza Hut

[Anonymous No.5225078]

It's about a bunch of weird flesh-colored creatures pulling a Scooby Doo and putting on shitty ghost costumes to scare Pac-man. The reason they appear as eyes is because you're eating their costume, but the maze is too dark to make out their true forms. The costume falls off in one of the cutscenes, though.

[Anonymous No.5225154]

>>5225032
I actually really like the look of that ship.

[Anonymous No.5225157]

>>5225056
>>>/pol/
>>>/trash/

[Anonymous No.5225296]

>>5225157
Shit bitch. Jews are so fucking fragile.

[Anonymous No.5225335]

>>5224982
You are a gluttonous yellow ball person that unwittingly breaks into an abandoned mansion, occupied by the dead spirits of some blobby creatures who wear sheets with sleeves in order to interact with things that they couldn't otherwise. The red one has a short temper and bosses the others around, the pink one is a sneaky degenerate with a fetish for spherical objects, the cyan one is a cowardly spaz who idolizes the red one, and the orange one is a total dipshit who's main purpose is just to do heavy lifting. You break in and eat all their food, particularly their fruit, which they have because they need to consume living matter in order to avoid evaporating for good, because they're not meant to exist outside of the Spectral Realm. You eating their food understandably pisses them off, especially the red one, and they attempt to catch you and consume your life force in retaliation. Not understanding why they give a shit about some old fruit, you consume some nutrient-rich energy pastry balls that allow you to overpower them and eat their sheets (and some of their ectoplasm), forcing them to go get new ones in order for them to actually hold you down and feast on your essence. Out of spite, you also end up also eating all the keys to their doors, some old, valuable looking bells, and a pair of downed alien spaceships they found in their backyard one day and kept because they looked cool. You keep doing this until they catch you, suck out your life force, and boot you out of their mansion. You can also somehow keep avoiding them until the apocalypse happens, which slowly consumes everything.

That is Pac-Man.

[Anonymous No.5225367]

>>5222710 #
See this for a good analysis

[Anonymous No.5225515]

>>5225335
how fucking long did it take you to write that

[Anonymous No.5225519]

>>5225053
Dear Diary,
Today Anon delivered something cool.

[Anonymous No.5225534]

>>5225515
Too long.

[Anonymous No.5225557]

>>5225519
Want more?

I give you Breakout: The Official Novelization

[Anonymous No.5225558]

>>5225557

[Anonymous No.5225559]

>>5225558

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>>5225559

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>>5225560

[Anonymous No.5225564]

>>5225561

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>>5225564

[Anonymous No.5225578]

>>5225557
Okay, I could buy the existence of a backstory for Asteroids.
But fucking BREAKOU- oh wait that's right Arkanoid exists never mind

[Anonymous No.5225580]

>>5225558
How does he know there's multiple layers if each layer extends so far in every direction he can't fly his ship around them?

[Anonymous No.5225591]

>>5225578
It's actually based on the backstory found in the manual for the 2600 port of Super Breakout. A lot of the text in >>5225558 is pretty much lifted straight from the manual.

[Anonymous No.5225596]

>>5225591

[Anonymous No.5225603]

I like how the Breakout novelization is actually recognizably Breakout. The Asteroids one is just a generic sci-fi story that has a couple asteroids in them.

[Anonymous No.5225609]

>>5225603
I didn't even notice any flying saucers.

[Anonymous No.5225724]

>>5225335
You put way too much thought into this.

[Anonymous No.5225749]

>>5225157
If you can't stand the heat get out of the oven

[Anonymous No.5225804]

>>5224982
The cops are coming, pacman has to take all the drugs before they nab him. Sees ghosts and shit because he is tripping balls, can take down ghosts when he eats his PCP.

[Anonymous No.5226231]

>>5225335
I hope Namco reads this shit to create a spin-off horror Pac game.

[Anonymous No.5226293]

>>5224982

The Truth...

Pac Man is the traditional Japanese Oni.

The pellets are Speed

The power pills are Cocaine

The Ghosts are the Christian Holy Spirit as viewed by the Japanese

The bonus items are clues to pull Pac Man back to reality.

The games plot is the life of a Japanese salary man.

[Anonymous No.5228248]

>>5225335
le ebig cringe