{"id":120,"date":"2006-04-17T07:00:40","date_gmt":"2006-04-17T12:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=120"},"modified":"2020-05-15T12:54:19","modified_gmt":"2020-05-15T17:54:19","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-gay-pac-man-and-video-wafers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/120\/retro-scan-of-the-week-gay-pac-man-and-video-wafers","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">Retro Scan of the Week:<\/span> Happy Pac-Man and Floating &#8220;Video Wafers&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"caption\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/videowafers_large.jpg\" target=\"new\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/videowafers_small.jpg\" alt=\"Pac-Man Video Wafers\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption_text\">Look at the little spud, frozen mid-stride in a moment of pure ghost-running bliss.  As a continuation of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/115\" target=\"new\">last week&#8217;s Retro Scan<\/a>, here are two pages from the manual of the Atari 2600 version of <em>Pac-Man<\/em>.  The game itself was a terrible translation of the arcade hit (for <em>Pac-Man<\/em> done right on the 2600, see <em>Ms. Pac-Man<\/em>).  The graphics were so bad that the manual tells you about the &#8220;video wafers&#8221; (lines, in lieu of pellets) that Pac-Man eats in this game.  Also, the bonus fruit have become &#8220;vitamins&#8221; &#8212; because they&#8217;re square.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder if Pac-Man would be so happy if he knew that Atari would be burying thousands (if not millions) of copies of his game in a landfill a few years later.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Look at the little spud, frozen mid-stride in a moment of pure ghost-running bliss. As a continuation of last week&#8217;s Retro Scan, here are two pages from the manual of the Atari 2600 version of Pac-Man. The game itself was a terrible translation of the arcade hit (for Pac-Man done right on the 2600, see [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,24,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video-game-info-and-history","category-humor","category-retro-scan-of-the-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120","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=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2808,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions\/2808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}