PixlBit

Right, Pac-Man eats everything, even the ghosts when he can. Like swallowing your guilt or something.

I've been on the fence about getting Netflix back. Right now I watch everything on youtube, or get it from the library. If I can't find it there, I go to Barnes & Noble and buy the thing I'm looking for, if they have it. I'm never sure if Netflix will have what I'm looking for. They do this thing were the streaming library is different from the disc library. I'd rather go all streaming, but only if I can get anything.

I'm noticing it a lot lately in all sorts of games. You have to make such tiny movments on such a tiny stick with probably the clumbsiet digit, your thumb. It infuriates me in certain games where every slight move of my thumb messes up what I'm doing. Also, in this Pac-Man case, chosing a discrete direction. It's almost impossible on a multidirectional stick that's barely an inch long and controlled by your thumb.

Yeah, they're great. When the beat speeds up it really creates some tension.

I was watching Mark play Pac-Man and then Ms. Pac-Man and, yeah, Ms. Pac-Man is even better. I realize it was made by two Americans and approved by Namco later but it still feels like a true sequel.

Last night I was thinking how it sums up consumerism. I'd call each ghost something that prevents you from following the capitalist way.

I think my first arcade game was Gran Trak 10 but the memory is kind of vague. I don't even remember exactly when I started going to arcades on my own but it was probably '79 or '80. All the classics were there especially those from '80: Pac-Man, Defender, Tempest, Centipede, Missile Command, etc. . . I remember a particular arcade I went to and it had all of those.

I'd love to have an arcade cabinet. It would probably be Xevious or 1943: Battle of Midway. Maybe Lunar Rescue, since I'm kind of obsessed with that game right now.

You got Pac-Man fever for sure. Not a bad thing either.

I played this on one of my Capcom collections. It was quite fun to punch and kick everything but it did get kind of cheap and I would die a lot. 

I kind of like the design of the handheld. Too bad there are issues with the screen. 

Too bad. But at least I might be able to keep up with reading blogs as they come out for once. 

I'm glad I have a SNES now I got from a friend of mine. I'm going to start it up sometime and revisit some stuff.