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JcDent
PIC3: "Here you see, in extreme detail, the excruciatingly painful death of Pac-Man".
HighMagosSquidward
Does anyone know what the red stamp in the middle is?
ironwavestudios
I heard the song in slow motion when I saw those frames for when pacman dies...
Blud4BludGod
Imagine being someone that started in the games industry this early, seeing it grow so incredibly over a few decades
ShackerZ
Back when Pac Man was a good boy
waruta
I like how he "hanko-ed" all his pages so that nobody could steal the idea.
Paracelsush
Game design sure was a lot easier back then.
TheMostModestMouse
I always updoot puckman.
theysaidtherewouldbecats
I always liked the pattern on the bottom of the ghosts. Circle Square Circle.
BESTtaylorINAUSTRALIA
Wokka, Wokka, Wokka, Wokka, Wokka, Wokka, Wokka, Wokka, Wokka, Wokka, Wokka, Wokka, Wokka, Wokka, Wokka, Wokka, Wokka, Wokka, Wokka, Wokka,
Quylein
I always upvote The Puckman
ninjagaidensigma
Waka waka waka
NrNone
Are they on a train?
ddecew
Inception 2: Do Ghosts Dream of Electric Pac Men?
OffByOneError
HI SCORE - Hello!
Serat808
Wakka wakka wakka
grandmasbuttsack
Bow bow bow bow briiick squaaaaad
PiccPicceringtonVonChesterburgElderberryTheThirdEsquire
Bwooo woo woo woo. Boopboop!
BrigidtheMechLady
Walk this way! Wakka Wakka Wakka
txGrizzly
https://media4.giphy.com/media/Eh0oX4aCGsIs8/200.gif
persistantpastaman
FUCK THIS MOVIE
ziproman
nice high score!
Pharo86
Pad man
ddecew
nice
Zerocool200
And this is how I started an entire genre for the following 20 generations of humans in this planet
jmjonesy
Its nice to see his hand grew back.
jdavis1186
That maze layout is different from the final game
MobileUsersIFeelYou
It's weird how such legendary game started on a piece of paper
fakebecauseidontwantpeopletoknow
Most legendary things start on a piece of paper
bukobg
theDemongod
It was written with paper too. Things were coded with punch cards at this point.
jckodel
No, it was not. PacMan ran on a Z-80 processor (you could buy a MSX machine with the same CPU and use it in your home, with floppy disks)
SciGuy
I don't think Pac-Man used punch cards, though.
SendLink
Why not Hi Score 99999?
shiyal
To give gainers something to shoot for.
shiyal
Gamers dammit.
drbootyshaker
Points come in increments of 10 I'm assuming.
SendLink
That makes sense! Thanks!
davepermen
Score was stored in 16bits maybe? Allows for a max of 65536 points. The extra 0 was to make players feel cooler (see other replies)
DreadPirateWestley
I wonder what the stamp says
SendLink
Pacu pacu
VicenteRojas
It says secret
ademnus
Ringding-dinga-ding-ring-dingding
Maikaru
Its Mr.Iwatani's HANKO. Basically his signature, all Japanese have this.
ThisIsGod
Love
donmcc
This was back before you used a computer to build computer games.
Wandows95
Something tells me you have no idea how games are actually made.
donmcc
Something tells me you have no idea how games were made in 1979 when PacMan was developed..
Gahd
Hell, we still sketch on paper now... It's called concept art.
walterpeck
No it wasn't, and sketching concept art and maps was a thing for a long, long time after Pac Man.
lordkario
is*
ElMrMcNasty
Wait, I'm confused. How did they make computer games then? Some guy would just draw the game on paper and it would magically become a game?
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donmcc
PacMan came out a year before the IBM PC. A CP/M machine might have been used for some development, but more likely a mini-computer.
donmcc
I assume at that time PacMan was coded into assembler, or something else low level. Graphic were bit mapped, hence the graph paper.
TheJohnWilson
Yup. Your point of confusion is the joke.
GrimmHeart
Should have 'design' rather than 'build' I guess.
idrinkcheapbeer
Should have said 'said' I guess.
GrimmHeart
Or 'wrote'... Or used a comma...
StringVariable
Going full meta: they made a game about the process https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8b/Pac-Pix_Coverart.png
Sauroctonus
They had the means to code the game, but there was little/no design software, so graphics had to be created with directly with code.
Sauroctonus
Drawing them on graph paper would make it easier to do.
donmcc
Yes, what I was trying to say.
Wylf
Yes. How else would it happen?
UnlikelyMotivation
Chuck Testa.
KernelKunt
It was about to be called Puck Man but someone noticed you could erase a part of the P...
whateversomethingdifferentiguessfkit
The best part of that movie is any time michael cera's character is injured in any way.
ThisFrickenGuy
You would think it was because he looks like a hockey puck, but it actually comes from the Japanese phrase paku-paku, which means to flap
lunaisbestprincess
IIRC in an interview, it was from the sound the Japanese use for eating...like "chomp" or something.
Sobelimas
FACK MAN, close enough
ScottEarnedThePowerOfSelfRespect
Yay I'm relevant
halborski
Kegobo
I kept thinking "Duck man"...
Thamyd
I have original puckman arcade signs!
ItsJustRocketScience
And get Duck man! Man am I happy they changed that!
ThisFrickenGuy
one's mouth open and closed.
idownvoteplottwist
I've heard a similar story explaining that "Jazz" replaced "Jass."
EmuMoogle
Actually, the Japanese version *was* called Puck Man. They changed it when localizing the import version. This is the same reason why 1/
EmuMoogle
2/ you have "Inky, Blinky, Pinky and Clyde" rather than "Oikake, Machibuse, Kimagure and Otoboke".
petrie911
Those do seem like more memorable names for an English-speaking audience.
SpaceTimeNomad
║ ᗧ••••••ᗣ••• ║
upvoteALLtheimages
https://youtu.be/OTZHI6TxD5A
CommanderWilliamTRiker
wakawakawakawakawakawaka
MrPredator
... I had to stop and think about this one. I'm not a smart man... I'm a perverted individual.
JamesBluntThatSmartassCunt
nice
bobwehadababyeetsaboy
http://static2.fjcdn.com/comments/I+_02510bace32bd8f1c732cad6b6f10131.jpg
ChefG0ldblum
http://www.spriters-resource.com/resources/sheet_icons/61/64571.png
dnebdal
For the curious: Pacman there is "CANADIAN SYLLABICS CARRIER TTA" - that is, the sound "tta" as written by the Carrier people.
dnebdal
The ghost is "CANADIAN SYLLABICS CARRIER TTO" - that is, the sound "tto" from the same abugida.
dnebdal
Abugida (noun): Writing system where you write consonant+vowel pairs, and the vowel is a systematic modifier of the consonant.
dnebdal
Carrier uses rotation: ᗣ ᗤ ᗢ ᗧ is tto ttə ttu tta (and ᗥ ᗦ is tte tti). It's related to the other Canadian-native systems from the 1800s.
jackofalleves
now build the whole map in ascii
mycoininthemiddle
*in brainfuck
irrelevanceisgolden
ASCII and you shall receivii.
jackofalleves
why are you lot so much better at imgur than me?!
manujedi
stebin.com/raw.php?i=7QM51FvJ">http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=7QM51FvJ Credits to: http://picascii.com/
jackofalleves
holy shit, nice
chaoswolf1982
doesn't work with Firefox, but displays correctly with IE.
TotallyNotYourCat
It does. Just zoom out.
blizzardjesus
That belongs in a museum.
EmuMoogle
And it was! It, among other things, was shown at the Game On 2.0 exhibition at Tekniska Museet in Stockholm, Sweden.
neverRelevant1738
Hello Harrison Jones
Loredaeron
Calm down indiana jones, lol
Durbs12
It needs to be researched. By top men.
Amostostic
http://imgur.com/rwtMKj9
JediArchitect
So do you!
Aaaargh
B..but the level design is different, in his sketch you can't go left & right and turn up on the opposite side...!?!?
neverRelevant1738
Hello Harrison Jones
IAmHarrisonFord
Thats my line you rotten bastard! Wheres my family?!
samsonguy920
Check the jungle for your son. I think it's Twister night with the monkeys.
8hourgamer
Thank you.
alliephotoshopsthings
There's also an exhibit at the MoMA in NYC right now which includes pac man and sketches, not sure if it's the same ones though.
Nijstet
We have top men working on it right now
Celestialwoods
http://i1.2pcdn.com/node14/image/article/201409/29/20140929102109a0dwig4s9f3ro3zl.png
tinygnomeman
dear god i thought i was the only one "EVERYONE GET IN HERE!" there's a hearthstone player.
goddammitnappa
So do you! THROW HIM OVER THE SIDE!!
BubblesKittens
Thats what i thought too...TRY AGAIN TORU!
IAmHarrisonFord
Shut your goddamn mouth kid
goddammitnappa
Imnothereformath
dammit you beat me to it.
goddammitnappa
I'm only sorta sorry. lol
mitchblahman
You belong in a museum!
ProfessorWasp
Your mom belongs in a museum! OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!
RogueFirefighter
STFU Ez
Axler34
Hey guys I found the league player
YodasLeftEar
okey now, jeffy, where's osama bin laden?
ChaoticBananaPenguin
Time for a true display of skill !!!
mitchblahman
Time to break out my MMMMAAAIIIINNNNNNN
Ninechop
You belong in a museum!
AuspiciousProductions
YOU CAN'T MILK THOSE!