{"id":1067,"date":"2015-10-21T14:08:51","date_gmt":"2015-10-21T19:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=1067"},"modified":"2015-10-22T19:41:01","modified_gmt":"2015-10-23T00:41:01","slug":"real-place-names-that-sound-like-namco-arcade-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/1067\/real-place-names-that-sound-like-namco-arcade-games","title":{"rendered":"Real Place Names that Sound Like Namco Arcade Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='\/wp-content\/pacman_eating_galaga_small.png' class=\"alignright\"\/>This is amusing.  It turns out that a number of real, actual geographical place names in the world happen to sound a lot like <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_Namco_games#Arcade_releases\" target=\"_blank\">1980s Namco arcade video game titles<\/a>. (If you try to pronounce them in English, anyway.)<\/p>\n<p>I ran across this phenomenon a few years ago when I accidentally learned about Malaga, Spain (i.e. Galaga).  After that, I decided to look for other cities and places that sound like (or at least are spelled like) various Namco games.  Here is what I&#8217;ve found so far:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Galaga<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/M%C3%A1laga\" target=\"_blank\">Malaga<\/a>, a state and a municipality, capital of the Province of M\u00c3\u00a1laga, in the Autonomous Community of Andalusia, Spain<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/soki.in\/galaga-222733\/\" target=\"_blank\">Galaga<\/a>, a Village in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/preview?ll=16.421626,76.933061&#038;z=14&#038;t=h&#038;hl=en-US&#038;gl=US&#038;mapclient=embed&#038;q=Devadurga,+Karnataka+584111+India\" target=\"_blank\">Devadurga Taluk<\/a> in Raichur District of Karnataka State, India<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Pac-Man<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Packman Ave, a street in Mount Vernon, NY, USA<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nato.int\/sfor\/indexinf\/124\/p03a\/chapter1.htm\">Pacman<\/a>, Vrbas, Autonomous Province of Vojvodina (Serbia)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Bosconian<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bosconia-cesar.gov.co\/index.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Bosconia<\/a>, a town in the Columbian department of Cesar<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Galaxian<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/Galaxiang,+Garze,+Sichuan,+China\/@31.6086065,99.970238,15z\/\" target=\"_blank\">Galaxiang<\/a>, a region in Garze, Sichuan, China<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Galax,_Virginia\">Galax,<\/a> a city in Virginia, USA<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Dig Dug<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carranglan,_Nueva_Ecija\" target=\"_blank\">Digdig<\/a>, a village in Carranglan, Central Luzon, Philippines<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Can you find any that I can add to this list?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is amusing. It turns out that a number of real, actual geographical place names in the world happen to sound a lot like 1980s Namco arcade video game titles. (If you try to pronounce them in English, anyway.) I ran across this phenomenon a few years ago when I accidentally learned about Malaga, Spain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,24,9],"tags":[1202,1203,1200,1201,1205,220,1199,1198,891,1204],"class_list":["post-1067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video-game-info-and-history","category-humor","category-retrogaming","tag-bosconian","tag-dig-dug","tag-galaga","tag-galaxian","tag-google-maps","tag-humor","tag-ms-pac-man","tag-namco","tag-pac-man","tag-place-names"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}