MetaFilter posts tagged with pacman

Finally, a way to clean up all those dots...

dnesan — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:27:27 -0800

Roomba Pac-Man! We've already discussed modding Roombas and Roomba art, but now these guys have made a fully playable real-life Pac-Man game using everyone's favorite robotic vacuum cleaner.

Pacman, Tetris, Pong

msalt — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 23:19:07 -0800

Photos recreating vintage video games and some other stuff.

Waka-waka-waka

JHarris — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:15:34 -0800

The Pac-Man Dossier is an extremely detailed description of the game logic of arcade Pac-Man. It explains why, once in a while, monsters will harmlessly pass through Pac-Man. It explains why they won't go up through the tunnels above the monster box. It explains why occasionally, after losing a life, monsters will refuse to leave the box. It explains when and why Blinky becomes Cruise Elroy, and why sometimes Pinky gets confused and loses track of Pac-Man. It even explains, as far as the player can continue to play, what to do on the kill screen. It is awesome. Previously....

All we have to do is touch it

cashman — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 07:02:05 -0800

Pac-Man The Movie (SLYT).

he consumes their ghost costume but not their eyeballs. it's roughage

juv3nal — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:16:59 -0800

How many pixels of poop would pacman generate after one board?

You are not yet enlightened, Inky-san.

JHarris — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 13:57:41 -0800

Retro Sabotage is a collection of recreations of classic video games. Or is it? Hint: It's not, but to explain them would be to spoil it. If a button needs to be pressed, it's the space bar unless it's explained otherwise. My advice is to try the Pac-Man and Space Invaders ones first, but Pong 2.0 is a highlight.

Anti-Pacman

sveskemus — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 08:52:53 -0800

Anti-Pacman.

Electric Christmas Trees

Tube — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 11:22:43 -0800

Electric Christmas Trees. The Tesla tree looks to be a new page from a website that has been posted previously.

Cruise Elroy: A Pac-Man Linkfest

churl — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 18:33:21 -0800

Is it just not enough to play Pac-Man on the Atari, PC, OS X dashboard, web, and cellphone? Try Pac-Gentleman, the Pac-Man board game, or just get some costumes and do it yourself . Still not enough? Master the game, watch the 1984 cartoon (sample episode, more on YouTube), eat the cereal, listen to the tribute album, watch a documentary about the players, or just wait for the inevitable Pac-Man Hollywood Movie. (Also: lots of awesome Pac-Mania previously on MeFi. I don't think I duplicated any previous links, apologies if I did.)

Ghosts in the machine

Blazecock Pileon — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 23:43:57 -0800

A chimpanzee plays Ms. Pac Man (WMV, some Japanese)

Perfect Pac-Man videos

Plutor — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 04:35:05 -0800

Want to become the sixth person to get a perfect score in Pac-Man? Here's how.

Recursive Pacman.

|n$eCur3 — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 16:18:09 -0800

Playable PacMan Arcade Cabinet Costume

jonson — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 15:11:26 -0800

In honor of Halloween, the greatest costume ever: a playable Pac Man arcade cabinet.

Bugman!

goodnewsfortheinsane — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 13:47:04 -0800

Play Pac-Man against real live crickets for science and fun.

Pac Xon

scottreynen — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 10:52:16 -0800

FFF: Pac Xon is like Qix, only with graphics from Pac Man, and the red ghosts eat your territory, and the popsicles freeze the ghosts. So maybe it's not so much like Qix, but it's similarly addictive. [via]

Mine eats goatse... I mean ghosts!

shmegegge — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 20:45:02 -0800

The PacMan Frog! What is it about this most saffronly rotund of amphibians that has inspired so many hideous web sites? (Don't even bother clicking on this one. It goes right to a geocities site.) Perhaps it's their tendency to try to eat anything they could get their oversized mouths on. They are, in fact, so ready and willing to consume anything within biting distance that it is recommended that owners feed these frogs with spoons. Pac man frogs will tend to bite anything that moves. Never use you [sic] bare hands when feeding to avoid bites. Many frogs are killed when a hand is quickly drawn away from a bite and the horned frog is flung against a wall. This one, apparently, just put a bounty out on Han Solo.

Whether you love them or hate them, all pacman frog owners agree: there's no tidy way to wrap up a post about pacman frogs. (Warning: almost inhumanly annoying website behind link. embedded qt midi music (really, though. what if God WERE one of us?) and horrific purple color scheme.)

Data = Art

whir — Fri, 23 Dec 2005 13:24:40 -0800

distellamap is a series of graphical representations of the code and data in Atari 2600 game cartridges, created using the Processing programming language. The results are rather pretty. Also by the same author: mario soup, a representation of the sprites in Super Mario Brothers. (via artificial.dk)

It's Pac-Man's 25th birthday

kingmissile — Thu, 16 Jun 2005 11:19:08 -0800

It's Pac-Man's 25th birthday and it's quite clear that some obsessed fans out there are much happier about it than other extremely obsessed pac-players. Maybe that guy needs to unwind for a bit?

World's Smallest PacMan Game

carter — Mon, 31 Jan 2005 10:08:00 -0800

World's Smallest PacMan Game [Flash, sound]

wakka wakka wakka

archimago — Mon, 03 May 2004 12:42:01 -0800

Pac-Manhattan is a large-scale urban game that utilizes the New York City grid to recreate the 1980's video game sensation Pac-Man. Oh yes folks, and it's a NYU grad school project.

Classic games in an all new format....

davehat — Tue, 02 Dec 2003 08:31:37 -0800

Pacelman. Pacman for Excel. [via Edge (print edition)]

PacMan Ghosts In Space

bargle — Fri, 08 Aug 2003 23:46:09 -0800

Space Dudes! Space Dudes is fifty levels of shooting... PacMan ghosts? It's a Java game. Simple but I found it addictive.

jeremias — Tue, 18 Jun 2002 07:47:11 -0800

Pac-Man fever, tis driving me crazy. It was 1981 or so, I was in 6th grade. I had a mom cool enough to take me out of school for a day, give me a few rolls of quarters and send me to this local bar, where I played Pac-Man all day. I made it to the fourth intermission a few times (which was a damn repeat!), how far did you get?

Su — Mon, 27 May 2002 12:01:48 -0800

Guimp.com claims to be the world's smallest web site. And it probably is.
Jakob must be spinning in his crypt.
You don't have to scroll, though.

phatboy — Fri, 02 Nov 2001 19:59:44 -0800

Nostalgic for old video games? Try the java arcade machine emulator. Play classic games such as Tempest, Ms. Pacman, and Arkanoid, arcade perfect and available on the internet via the magic of java.