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I am not sure if most of you are even old enough to have played PAC MAN in the arcade - but man, this was an interesting read...
Because I saw myself again, holding the side of the arcade as I jerked the PAC MAN controls violently to make those last minute turns...

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/02/ ... -the-game/

I am surprised that those joysticks weren't commonly jerked out of the machines.

I never played Pac-Man in the arcade, but I'm old enough to have played it on the Atari 2800. Does that count?

Now I suddenly feel very old..........

I played Pac-Man and Ms. Pac-Man on my dad's Tandy 1000. Preferred Ms. Pac-Man though. That's as far back as I go. I have played the Atari 2600 though. We never got to the arcades really at all at that age. And no consoles. We were a computer family. Had a Tandy 1000 and a Color Computer 3.

Collector wrote: ↑Fri Mar 01, 2019 9:29 pm I am surprised that those joysticks weren't commonly jerked out of the machines.

Agreed.

Rath Darkblade wrote: ↑Sat Mar 02, 2019 12:00 am I never played Pac-Man in the arcade, but I'm old enough to have played it on the Atari 2800. Does that count?
Now I suddenly feel very old..........

Well if you didn't play Pac-Man in the arcade, we definitely know you're not old if you compare yourself to me.

MusicallyInspired wrote: ↑Sat Mar 02, 2019 12:31 am I played Pac-Man and Ms. Pac-Man on my dad's Tandy 1000. Preferred Ms. Pac-Man though. That's as far back as I go. I have played the Atari 2600 though. We never got to the arcades really at all at that age. And no consoles. We were a computer family. Had a Tandy 1000 and a Color Computer 3.

I remember my sisters had one of these (though I distinctly remember the paddles being completely black)...
https://dustyconsoles.files.wordpress.c ... g_0740.jpg

After that, we got the Atari 2600, then the 5200, then the Sega and NES...

And then came the might Tandy 1000 SX... which cost over $1,000. (I still have the receipt somewhere)
After my father saw how much I got into computers, he knew he made the right "investment"...

Nice.

MusicallyInspired wrote: ↑Sat Mar 02, 2019 10:21 am Nice.

I wish I had kept the Pong machine (to be clear the photo of the Pong machine is not a photo of ours - that was a google search, that's why I was saying I remember the paddles being black). So I am not 100% it was that model but it was something similar.

EDIT: Did a bit of googling. Chances are that was the model we had. Because I remember it being clunky. But I think it's because we got it for the Atari later, when I got the Atari as a gift.
Because I remember something like this:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ ... ler-FR.jpg

I didn't play Pac-Man in the arcades, but I did play other games at the arcade. (I forget which - it was the mid-80s).

Speaking of Pac-Man ...

I love me some Weird Al... but if we're gonna talk PAC MAN and songs, this was my jam...

I love that the movements were not random when it came to the ghosts - but each was specifically programmed to have a "personality."