Vintage 1982 news report on "The Pac-Man"

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]

[#1 posted by eti , July 10, 2008 11:45 AM]

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 posted by John Brownlee , July 10, 2008 12:17 PM]

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

[#3 posted by jennfrank , July 10, 2008 12:44 PM]

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 posted by eti , July 10, 2008 12:46 PM]

Heh, heh. Silly naive future man!

[#5 posted by stratosfyr , July 10, 2008 4:03 PM]

"It seemed to be some kind of man. Some kind of... 'Pac'-man."

[#6 posted by Hanglyman , July 10, 2008 6:38 PM]

"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 posted by A New Challenger , July 11, 2008 9:27 PM]

@#2

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