![]() As Tim Rogers painstaking chronicles in his 3-hour ACTION BUTTON review of Pac-Man, the phrase “Video Games have come a long way since Pac-Man” found its way into many, many, many mainstream media discussions of video games. In fact, the original game became the linguistic shorthand for an outdated conception of what video games actually are. There simply wasn’t much going on to make you think of Pac-Man. The arcade game still held up, of course, but it was an artifact from a bygone era. Pac-Man, the unofficial spinoff created here in the US, was also a bonafide classic-the character seemed to fade from cultural relevance. Even though the original arcade had been a megahit-and even though Ms. Throughout the 1990’s I got very into video games, but if I’m being honest, Pac-Man wasn’t really a part of that. But I was definitely aware of the Pac-Man character, and that he came from an arcade game. I’m not quite old enough to remember seeing the Pac-Man saturday morning cartoon and I’m not sure I even knew there was one. I distinctly remember having very few stuffed animals-a Baby Kermit, a Pac-Man, a stuffed Raphael ( TMNT), and an Ultimate Warrior wrestling buddy, if that counts-and Pac-Man was one of them. In fact, when I think back to childhood, I’m pretty sure that a stuffed or beanbag Pac-Man was one of my first plush toys. But just for clarity’s sake, I am definitely a Pac-Man fan. My fondness for video games' first icon should really go without saying. But that’s mostly just because I assume everybody loves Pac-Man, not just me. In all my incoherent raving about video games generally, I may have neglected to point this out.
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