These Pac-Man lights are a few years old, but I thought I should share them to you.
As you can tell, it’s Pac-Man eating the light bulbs, as if they were the pellets in the game. And right behind him are the evil ghosts that have been terrorizing him for the last 20+-years.
Bendedetto Bufalino and Benedict Deseille created these lights for the Geneva, Switzerlands’ Festival of Trees and Lights.
After the jump, check out some more pictures of Pac-Man doing his part to increase light pollution. (more…)
Gonintendo has just received this picture in their email, which teases the idea that Namco Bandai has made the decision to not only release a new Pac-Man game, but also change the look of the famous yellow head.
I have no clue what direction the company plans on taking Pac-Man, but I believe it’s gonna be more than a simplistic 2D version. If you analyze the picture, it’s not just showing Pac-Man in every makeover, but also his evolution in gaming.
The picture in the far left shows him in his original 2D form, which most of us think of when we think of ‘The Pac.’ However, in the mid-90s he was re-imagined and while it was the same type of game as the original, it was played in 3D environment, which is represented in the second picture to the left. The third picture was his platform genre debut. Namco decided it was a good idea to bring a mixture of Super Mario 64, which was the craze back then.
So what does this mean for the next game? What could Pac-Man possibly star in that would be so drastically different than the rest? Well, I hear Nintendo is set to announce a 3D DS…
Russian animation studio tvigle, came up with a concept of having two famous videogame stars, Pac-Man & Mario, pitted against each other in an epic battle to the death. But I think it was more about Mario going through his ordinary routine, but suddenly Pac-Man has to be a dick once again, and ruin somebody’s fun.
The direction of the action was crafted beautifully, while the animation was drawn to perfection, and the sound is guaranteed to make you at least chuckle. It’s definitely worth a few minutes of your time.
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I love videogame fashion that doesn’t overdo the geekeyness, while I sport it. Not that I have anything wrong with geek-wear, in fact I have quite a few gaming shirts and other attire that I dress up in. But sometimes I don’t want to blind people with my dorkyness and I find as I get older — I want things a little more subtle.
This watch is a perfect example. As you can tell, this limited edition ticker has a class look to it, but if one were to inspect closer, they would know it was from the great retro classic, Pac-Man. Not only is the yellow looking pizza guy on the watch, but displays his arch-nemesis the ghosts, Inky, Pinky and Clyde — trapped inside the ‘nest.’
What is really cool is as every second goes by, so does Pac-Man around the watch — eating pellets, a ghosts and whatever is in his way of destruction.
Although, Looking like a classy videogamer doesn’t come cheap. You can order one for $130 on clubnamco, but if you really want one, you should hurry. According to the site, it should be a collector’s item because only 500 of these beauties were made.
If you had a crapload of tuna cans lying around… what would you do? Probably throw them out, right? Well, someone decided to make Pac-Man art out of them, and displayed their work at Canstruction — a convention dedicated to stacking food and drink metal cans. I can’t figure out what’s weirder; the fact that someone had the time to create this replica of Pac-Man using thousands of tuna cans, or an annual event where people stack food containers. (more…)
I love the fact that some smart geeks have no social life. A couple of guys decided to build a real life Pac-Man, but used the vacuum that controls on its own, the Roomba. The talented team hacked five Rommbas, four are ghosts that are chasing one Pac-Man. The unmanned demo is connected to a laptop where the viewer can wtach a virtual representation of what’s going on, on the floor.
Each Roomba ghosts are using an internal odometry, which has a positioning system and they can find they’re way around the maze and chase Pac-Man at the same time, without ever bumping into each other. Just like in the game, when Pac-Man has the ability to attack the ghosts, all four will glide away from him. If Pac-Man ends up touching one of them, they will be forced to go back to the middle, before they resume to chase the yellow vacuum cleaner.
Check out the video up top, and read their description after the jump.
I love the fact that some smart geeks have no social life. A couple of guys decided to build a real life Pac-Man, but used the vacuum that controls on its own — the Roomba. The talented team hacked five Roomba, four are ghosts that are chasing one Pac-Man. The unmanned demo is connected to a laptop where the viewer can wtach a virtual representation of what’s going on, on the floor.
Each Roomba ghosts are using an internal odometry, which has a positioning system and they can find they’re way around the maze and chase Pac-Man at the same time, without ever bumping into each other. Just like in the game, when Pac-Man has the ability to attack the ghosts, all four will glide away from him. If Pac-Man ends up touching one of them, they will be forced to go back to the middle, before they resume to chase the yellow vacuum cleaner.
Here’s a cool picture found I today. Pixel Fantasy on Flickr said he wants to see the new TRON film quite a bit, which is scheduled to be released next year. He was so inspired by his excitement, he decided to merge the easily recognizable movie from the 80s with the recognizable 80′s videogame Pac-Man.
Here is a great idea, could someone please make this into a black T-Shirt and sell it?
If you like the image so much, you want it as a wall paper — simply click on it and save.
Oh god Pac-Man, what the hell happened to you? You went to from a lovable yellow face to a striper loving, money throwing, gun slaying dick.
Ok, the video isn’t really that but parodying the new video, which was first shown on ESPN, of Adam “Pacman” Jones inside the strip club from he infamous shooting in which he made it rain.
The man who created Lemmings and the first Grand Theft Auto, has been told by more than one person that GTA was a lot like Pac-Man. As far out as that sounds, he somewhat tries to makes sense out of it.
“People said to me that GTA was just like Pac-Man — he eats the dots, while you drive over the dots in GTA. The police chase you like the ghosts in Pac-Man.”
I can kinda see what he’s talking about, especially if you only count the original Grand Theft Auto and the second one. Those games didn’t have the glorious 3D graphics the series has been known for now, but a 2D overhead point of view. Although I’m pretty sure being that vague, you could easily find quite a few games that are ‘similar.
I’ve been thinking about what kind of car I would get if I were to get buy one sometime soon. I’m not going to lie, I’m not huge about any particular vehicle, I really just want something that goes from point ‘A’ to ‘B.’ Although, these pictures that I’m posting might have just changed my mind.
TheCoolHunter released images of these MINI Coopers, which have a Space Invaders and Pac-Man theme design and as of now, the cars are sadly not available. According to the site, this is all part of a project and to be honest, I don’t think these pictures are even real and they are probably just concept art. But it sounds there is a small possibility that someone is working on these designs as we speak, and maybe could happen one day. If so, sign me up!
We should also note, that these pictures are being mistakenly credited towards artist Matt Moore. However, Gamedaily has confirmed that Moore is denying such an involvement and as of now, we don’t know who actually made them.
