Re: [Audyssey] Happy Birthday Pacman

2010-05-25 Thread Bryan Peterson
And Pacman and Ghost marshmallows. We are the Knights who say...Ni! - Original Message - From: Hayden Presley hdpres...@hotmail.com To: 'Gamers Discussion list' gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Monday, May 24, 2010 10:46 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Happy Birthday Pacman Hi, Cereal? What

Re: [Audyssey] Happy Birthday Pacman

2010-05-25 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, If memory serves me correctly the serial was basically a bunch of yellow balls with several ghost cshaped marshmallows thrown in. Its been ages since I've actually seen the stuff, and little details like that are beginning to slip. Lol! On 5/25/10, Hayden Presley hdpres...@hotmail.com wrote:

Re: [Audyssey] Happy Birthday Pacman

2010-05-25 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, I also really enjoyed the Space Invaders song that was floating around the radio during the early 1980's. He's hooked. He's hooked. His brain is cooked. Space Invaders. That song was a laugh a minute. The entire song was as much a sspoof of the game as it was honoring the game. I still

Re: [Audyssey] Happy Birthday Pacman

2010-05-25 Thread Bryan Peterson
, May 25, 2010 12:42 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Happy Birthday Pacman Hi, I also really enjoyed the Space Invaders song that was floating around the radio during the early 1980's. He's hooked. He's hooked. His brain is cooked. Space Invaders. That song was a laugh a minute. The entire song

Re: [Audyssey] Happy Birthday Pacman

2010-05-25 Thread shaun everiss
hmph. wander where you can get all that stuff from all the game related songs. wander if a disk exists with all the old game songs on it. sadly aparently most real soundtracks for games are in japan you can almost never get soundtracks of games here though my frind picked up the one for mist 4

Re: [Audyssey] Happy Birthday Pacman

2010-05-25 Thread shaun everiss
at you when you lost a life. We are the Knights who say...Ni! - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2010 12:42 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Happy Birthday Pacman Hi, I also really enjoyed the Space

Re: [Audyssey] Happy Birthday Pacman

2010-05-25 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, Sure was. I remember playing Space Invaders in the arcade along with Pac-Man, Asteroids, etc before the Atari 2600 home versions came out. However, I was very small perhaps three or four when it was in the arcades. On 5/25/10, Bryan Peterson bpeterson2...@cableone.net wrote: Was Space

Re: [Audyssey] Happy Birthday Pacman

2010-05-25 Thread shaun everiss
on the subject of arcades. a friend reconds that the deal or no deal arcade machines in some areas of new zealand seem to be reasonabley accessible voice wise. though all the noise. I so wish a deal or no deal game exists for us. that would rock. At 08:27 a.m. 26/05/2010, you wrote: Hi, Sure

Re: [Audyssey] Happy Birthday Pacman

2010-05-24 Thread Lori Duncan
A Packman record! sounds crazy lol. - Original Message - From: Bryan Peterson bpeterson2...@cableone.net To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Monday, May 24, 2010 1:49 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Happy Birthday Pacman I loved eating Pacman cereal while listening to my

Re: [Audyssey] Happy Birthday Pacman

2010-05-24 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, Well, there really was a promotional Pac-Man serial. I ate quite a lot of it as a kid before the serial companies decided to get rid of it. Then again, i remember a Star Wars serial too, but that too was a short lived thing. On 5/24/10, shaun everiss shau...@xtra.co.nz wrote: oh man did not

Re: [Audyssey] Happy Birthday Pacman

2010-05-24 Thread Hayden Presley
Hi, Cereal? What was it, dots? Best Regards, Hayden -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Ward Sent: Monday, May 24, 2010 8:58 AM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Happy Birthday Pacman Hi, Well

Re: [Audyssey] Happy Birthday Pacman

2010-05-24 Thread Hayden Presley
: Re: [Audyssey] Happy Birthday Pacman A Packman record! sounds crazy lol. - Original Message - From: Bryan Peterson bpeterson2...@cableone.net To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Monday, May 24, 2010 1:49 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Happy Birthday Pacman I loved eating

Re: [Audyssey] Happy Birthday Pacman

2010-05-23 Thread key stone
thomasward1...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Saturday, May 22, 2010 7:47 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Happy Birthday Pacman Hi Dark, Depends on what console you were playing it on. The original Packman home version was designed for the Atari 2600. They later produced

Re: [Audyssey] Happy Birthday Pacman

2010-05-23 Thread Phil Vlasak
Pac-Man still munching foes and winning fans Wocka wocka! The seminal video game turns 30 this month. For a video game, Pac-Man is getting downright old. The ghost-wary hero with an insatiable appetite for dots turns 25 this month. From the early 1980s Pac-Mania to today's endless sequels

Re: [Audyssey] Happy Birthday Pacman

2010-05-23 Thread Bryan Peterson
Message - From: key stone eloheem...@comcast.net To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Sunday, May 23, 2010 2:23 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Happy Birthday Pacman I played Ms. Pacman so much it left a permanent maze stuck on my television, even when it was turned off; My Mom

Re: [Audyssey] Happy Birthday Pacman

2010-05-23 Thread Lori Duncan
Sorry but what with the high quality of action games out there for the blind now, why was Packman so popular. - Original Message - From: Phil Vlasak p...@pcsgames.net To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Sunday, May 23, 2010 2:39 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Happy Birthday

Re: [Audyssey] Happy Birthday Pacman

2010-05-23 Thread Bryan Peterson
of it. We are the Knights who say...Ni! - Original Message - From: Phil Vlasak p...@pcsgames.net To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Sunday, May 23, 2010 7:39 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Happy Birthday Pacman Pac-Man still munching foes and winning fans Wocka wocka

Re: [Audyssey] Happy Birthday Pacman

2010-05-23 Thread Bryan Peterson
: Re: [Audyssey] Happy Birthday Pacman Pac-Man still munching foes and winning fans Wocka wocka! The seminal video game turns 30 this month. For a video game, Pac-Man is getting downright old. The ghost-wary hero with an insatiable appetite for dots turns 25 this month. From the early 1980s

Re: [Audyssey] Happy Birthday Pacman

2010-05-23 Thread Hayden Presley
[mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Bryan Peterson Sent: Sunday, May 23, 2010 10:07 AM To: Lori Duncan; Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Happy Birthday Pacman Because at the time it was innovative and fun. And it was high quality for that period. We are the Knights who say...Ni

Re: [Audyssey] Happy Birthday Pacman

2010-05-23 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Dark, H...I'm not sure if I'd like to be able to jump over the ghosts or not. That's precisely the problem I have with some of these retro remakes of classic games. Sooner or later a game developer will screw it up, because he/she will decide that the original game play wasn't good enough

Re: [Audyssey] Happy Birthday Pacman

2010-05-23 Thread dark
I certainly see the point Tom, though interestingly enough, even though I have enough vision to stil play original packman, i actually prefer packman talks, sinse the sterrio audio is far more immersive, and navigating the maze with only a limited amount of information rather than having

Re: [Audyssey] Happy Birthday Pacman

2010-05-23 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Lori, Well, to anser a question like that I think we really have to go back 30 years and look at Packman as it relates to its golden years so to speak. When we look at games to day, how far technology has come, it is easy to dismiss what a huge impact a game like Packman had on modern day video

Re: [Audyssey] Happy Birthday Pacman

2010-05-23 Thread dark
Interesting that you mention your son playing packman tom. A friend of mine was actually complaining that the modern, hyper graphical, hyper 3D games are so aimed at a particular agegroup, getting young children into playing games, or playing games together with them is damnably difficult due

Re: [Audyssey] Happy Birthday Pacman

2010-05-23 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Dark, that's a situation I'm quite familiar with. As it happens I have a number of video game emulators on the family PC, one of them is Stella, and my son likes the Atari 2600 games like Pac-Man, Space Invaders, Galaxian, etc because the games are fairly easy to play and the graphics are easy

Re: [Audyssey] Happy Birthday Pacman

2010-05-23 Thread Bryan Peterson
Sent: Sunday, May 23, 2010 4:49 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Happy Birthday Pacman Hi Lori, Well, to anser a question like that I think we really have to go back 30 years and look at Packman as it relates to its golden years so to speak. When we look at games to day, how far technology has come

Re: [Audyssey] Happy Birthday Pacman

2010-05-23 Thread Ron Schamerhorn
I'm with you on that one. - Original Message - From: Bryan Peterson bpeterson2...@cableone.net To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Sunday, May 23, 2010 8:20 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Happy Birthday Pacman There was even a Pacman cereal with Pacman and ghost

Re: [Audyssey] Happy Birthday Pacman

2010-05-23 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, Lol! I remember that. I wonder how many pounds of Pac-Man serial I ate as well. Probibly more than I want to remember. Insane isn't it how we all we were Pac-Man crazy in the early 80's? On 5/23/10, Bryan Peterson bpeterson2...@cableone.net wrote: There was even a Pacman cereal with Pacman

Re: [Audyssey] Happy Birthday Pacman

2010-05-23 Thread Bryan Peterson
, 2010 6:21 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Happy Birthday Pacman I'm with you on that one. - Original Message - From: Bryan Peterson bpeterson2...@cableone.net To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Sunday, May 23, 2010 8:20 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Happy Birthday Pacman

Re: [Audyssey] Happy Birthday Pacman

2010-05-23 Thread Bryan Peterson
: Sunday, May 23, 2010 6:28 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Happy Birthday Pacman Hi, Lol! I remember that. I wonder how many pounds of Pac-Man serial I ate as well. Probibly more than I want to remember. Insane isn't it how we all we were Pac-Man crazy in the early 80's? On 5/23/10, Bryan Peterson

Re: [Audyssey] Happy Birthday Pacman

2010-05-23 Thread shaun everiss
- From: Ron Schamerhorn blindwon...@cogeco.ca To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Sunday, May 23, 2010 6:21 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Happy Birthday Pacman I'm with you on that one. - Original Message - From: Bryan Peterson bpeterson2...@cableone.net To: Gamers

Re: [Audyssey] Happy Birthday Pacman

2010-05-23 Thread shaun everiss
thomasward1...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Sunday, May 23, 2010 6:28 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Happy Birthday Pacman Hi, Lol! I remember that. I wonder how many pounds of Pac-Man serial I ate as well. Probibly more than I want to remember. Insane isn't it how we all

Re: [Audyssey] Happy Birthday Pacman

2010-05-22 Thread dark
Rather fun, if not actually accessible (though thanks to phil there is accessible packman of course). Interestingly enough though, while I remember playing packman at the age of 3 or 4 on our old atari 2600, the colours and sfx were completely different from the arcade version, though the

Re: [Audyssey] Happy Birthday Pacman

2010-05-22 Thread Bryan Peterson
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Happy Birthday Pacman Rather fun, if not actually accessible (though thanks to phil there is accessible packman of course). Interestingly enough though, while I remember playing packman at the age of 3 or 4 on our old atari 2600, the colours and sfx were completely

Re: [Audyssey] Happy Birthday Pacman

2010-05-22 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Dark, Depends on what console you were playing it on. The original Packman home version was designed for the Atari 2600. They later produced sequals like Mrs. Packman and Packman Jr. for the Atari 7800 series consoles. As it happens they also released a new 2600 console, before they went out

Re: [Audyssey] Happy Birthday Pacman

2010-05-22 Thread dark
the ability to jump over ghosts into packman talks? ;D. Beware the Grue! Dark. - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Sunday, May 23, 2010 12:47 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Happy Birthday Pacman Hi Dark