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]
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
But… but… I thought Pac-Man was supposed to be an out-of-his head space man, hopped up on psychedelics?
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!
Heh, heh. Silly naive future man!
“It seemed to be some kind of man. Some kind of… ‘Pac’-man.”
“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”.
@#2
John, you’re thinking of Major Tom. We all know he’s a junkie.