I think I was 8 when Atari's Pac-Man came out. I was very well-versed in video games, reading all the magazines and hanging out in arcades; all my stupid classmates didn't know about the world beyond their Ataris.
They thought Atari Pac-Man was not only the shit, but canon. Multiple kids thought my Trapper Keeper with a picture of the arcade Pac-Man board on it was messed-up and wrong. Where's his eye? Why aren't there doors on the top and bottom??
Everyone I knew owned a copy of that game, though. It really wasn't until like 10 years later that I learned that people who counted their ages in double digits though that Atari's Pac-Man was a failure.
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They thought Atari Pac-Man was not only the shit, but canon. Multiple kids thought my Trapper Keeper with a picture of the arcade Pac-Man board on it was messed-up and wrong. Where's his eye? Why aren't there doors on the top and bottom??
Everyone I knew owned a copy of that game, though. It really wasn't until like 10 years later that I learned that people who counted their ages in double digits though that Atari's Pac-Man was a failure.
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