Vintage 1982 news report on “The Pac-Man

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It’s not embeddable, unfortunately, and you need to wait about thirty seconds for this video to kick in to a vintage 1982 report on Pac-Mania by KPNX of Arizona, but if you can get past all that, you’ll be treated to something incredible: the nasal, dead-pan delivery of incredible lines like…

The ‘Pac-Man’ is a video game. He’s the yellow guy who looks something like an electric smile button gone berzerk.

I literally have no idea what an “electric smile button” is in the context of 1982, but I don’t care… I want one. Wonderful vintage squareness, cubed.

KPNX-AZ Pac Man Report [YouTube]

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7 Responses to Vintage 1982 news report on “The Pac-Man

  1. eti says:

    I literally have no idea what an “electric smile button” is in the context of 1982

    Hello! I am a visitor from the past! I will you the technology of today to explain what this means.

    This is a picture of a smile button:
    http://i38.tinypic.com/34r7g2g.jpg

  2. John Brownlee says:

    But… but… I thought Pac-Man was supposed to be an out-of-his head space man, hopped up on psychedelics?

  3. jennfrank says:

    I logged in to tell Brownlee what a smile button was, but a time traveler beat me to it!

    Also in the days of antiquity, we used “electric” and “electronic” interchangeably!

  4. eti says:

    Heh, heh. Silly naive future man!

  5. stratosfyr says:

    “It seemed to be some kind of man. Some kind of… ‘Pac’-man.”

  6. Hanglyman says:

    “There is now a Miss Pac-Man game.”

    Um, I believe you mean “a The Miss Pac-Man game”. Or at least “a Miss The Pac-Man game”.

  7. A New Challenger says:

    @#2

    John, you’re thinking of Major Tom. We all know he’s a junkie.

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