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JcDent
PIC3: "Here you see, in extreme detail, the excruciatingly painful death of Pac-Man".
IFuckOnTheSecondDate
ShackerZ
Back when Pac Man was a good boy
Blud4BludGod
Imagine being someone that started in the games industry this early, seeing it grow so incredibly over a few decades
BESTtaylorINAUSTRALIA
Wokka, Wokka, Wokka, Wokka, Wokka, Wokka, Wokka, Wokka, Wokka, Wokka, Wokka, Wokka, Wokka, Wokka, Wokka, Wokka, Wokka, Wokka, Wokka, Wokka,
ninjagaidensigma
Waka waka waka
OffByOneError
HI SCORE - Hello!
Pharo86
Pad man
ddecew
nice
theysaidtherewouldbecats
I always liked the pattern on the bottom of the ghosts. Circle Square Circle.
NrNone
Are they on a train?
Quylein
I always upvote The Puckman
txGrizzly
https://media4.giphy.com/media/Eh0oX4aCGsIs8/200.gif
persistantpastaman
FUCK THIS MOVIE
ziproman
nice high score!
ironwavestudios
I heard the song in slow motion when I saw those frames for when pacman dies...
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.
Paracelsush
Game design sure was a lot easier back then.
Flipittopwise
Omg, like I really needed this blow to my esteem while trying to build a game :\ he's awesome.
jmjonesy
Its nice to see his hand grew back.
DreadPirateWestley
I wonder what the stamp says
Maikaru
Its Mr.Iwatani's HANKO. Basically his signature, all Japanese have this.
ThisIsGod
Love
ademnus
Ringding-dinga-ding-ring-dingding
SendLink
Pacu pacu
VicenteRojas
It says secret
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.
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.
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.
Amostostic
http://imgur.com/rwtMKj9
neverRelevant1738
Hello Harrison Jones
neverRelevant1738
Hello Harrison Jones
Aaaargh
B..but the level design is different, in his sketch you can't go left & right and turn up on the opposite side...!?!?
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
JediArchitect
So do you!
Durbs12
It needs to be researched. By top men.
8hourgamer
Thank you.
Loredaeron
Calm down indiana jones, lol
mitchblahman
You belong in a museum!
ProfessorWasp
Your mom belongs in a museum! OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!
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
RogueFirefighter
STFU Ez
Ninechop
You belong in a museum!
AuspiciousProductions
YOU CAN'T MILK THOSE!
goddammitnappa
So do you! THROW HIM OVER THE SIDE!!
IAmHarrisonFord
Shut your goddamn mouth kid
goddammitnappa
Imnothereformath
dammit you beat me to it.
goddammitnappa
I'm only sorta sorry. lol
BubblesKittens
Thats what i thought too...TRY AGAIN TORU!
Serat808
Wakka wakka wakka
grandmasbuttsack
Bow bow bow bow briiick squaaaaad
PiccPicceringtonVonChesterburgElderberryTheThirdEsquire
Bwooo woo woo woo. Boopboop!
BrigidtheMechLady
Walk this way! Wakka Wakka Wakka
KernelKunt
It was about to be called Puck Man but someone noticed you could erase a part of the P...
ThisFrickenGuy
one's mouth open and closed.
Sobelimas
FACK MAN, close enough
halborski
Kegobo
I kept thinking "Duck man"...
Thamyd
I have original puckman arcade signs!
idownvoteplottwist
I've heard a similar story explaining that "Jazz" replaced "Jass."
whateversomethingdifferentiguessfkit
The best part of that movie is any time michael cera's character is injured in any way.
ItsJustRocketScience
And get Duck man! Man am I happy they changed that!
ScottEarnedThePowerOfSelfRespect
Yay I'm relevant
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.
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.
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
jackofalleves
now build the whole map in ascii
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.
mycoininthemiddle
*in brainfuck
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.
SendLink
Why not Hi Score 99999?
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)
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!
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.
StringVariable
Going full meta: they made a game about the process https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8b/Pac-Pix_Coverart.png
TheJohnWilson
Yup. Your point of confusion is the joke.
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.
GrimmHeart
Should have 'design' rather than 'build' I guess.
idrinkcheapbeer
Should have said 'said' I guess.
GrimmHeart
Or 'wrote'... Or used a comma...
Wylf
Yes. How else would it happen?
UnlikelyMotivation
Chuck Testa.