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    This afternoon I wen for a cruise on my bike. I drove to abandoned gas station and went down the over-grown trail behind it. I didn't get far, I was blocked by a destroyed barbed wire fence. I didn't plan on going that far anyway. A sign on the fence read, "SMILE YOUR ON CAMERA", this didn't bother me much as this fence was decades old, some kids probably just did it just to scare people. But on my way out, something caught my eye. At first it looked like an old phone, but when I saw what it was, my heart broke.

     

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    I picked it up and left quickly, no one's supposed to be back there. I didn't see anything else, I'll go back later tonight and check.

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    Sarcasm Jade or you serious?

     

    I don't think any one game caused the crash. Nor do I think it would've been just PacMan and ET.

     

    Wasn't there a flood of cheap, low quality games that contributed? PacMan and ET may be disliked, but I still think at the time both sold, and I'd say there were a lot worse games released by companies looking to cash in on the opportunity.

     

    I remember playing ET a lot back then too.

     

    Maybe how much you liked PacMan depended on your age, how much you recognized the differences, how often you got to play the real thing... let's see, in 82 I would've been 10 or 11. Getting to an arcade was not something I could easily do. As I said, I was just thrilled to play "PacMan" at home. Maybe someone older would've seen it differently.

    Sure, there were other crappier games, but none of the them sold as much as Pac-Man. In fact, many of those lame 3rd party games didn't sell well at all, nor were they distributed very well. Which is why some are so hard to find. No game did as much damage to industry as Pac-Man.

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    Rather interesting that Brian Fitzgerald called his software company H.A.L. Labs. While it is said he was inspired by the HAL 9000 computer, it should be noted that there was a Japanese game developer called HAL Labs that among their first couple of games made VIC-20 versions of arcade games like Pac-Man, Rally-X, Space Invaders and so on. Those games were OK to sell within Japan, but Commodore didn't have the rights to sell home versions in rest of the world. They renamed the games, but some of them got shut down anyhow (not by Atarisoft, but by Namco). Personally I find Jelly Monsters on the VIC is a better Pac-Man game than Atarisoft's official release some years later.

    Any relation to the creators of Kirby?

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