Vintage 1982 news report on "The Pac-Man"

Thumbnail image for pacmanfever450.JPGIt'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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#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

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

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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!

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#4 posted by eti , July 10, 2008 12:46 PM

Heh, heh. Silly naive future man!

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

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"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".

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@#2

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

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