{"id":288,"date":"2007-03-12T10:28:58","date_gmt":"2007-03-12T15:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=288"},"modified":"2016-10-14T08:42:07","modified_gmt":"2016-10-14T13:42:07","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-absolute-pac-mania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/288\/retro-scan-of-the-week-absolute-pac-mania","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">Retro Scan of the Week:<\/span> The Ultimate <em>Pac-Man<\/em> Room"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/pac-mania_zoom_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/pac-mania_zoom_medium.jpg\" alt=\"The Ultimate Pac-Man Room\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So tell me, Pac-Friends.  How many of these <em>Pac-Man<\/em> items do <em>you<\/em> have? (Check the scans below to get a full description of all the items.)<\/p>\n<p><em>Pac-Man<\/em> this, <em>Pac-Man<\/em> that.  It seems like they made a <em>Pac-Man<\/em> version of everything in the early 1980s.  My brother&#8217;s friend had a metal <em>Pac-Man<\/em> trashcan that I was always jealous of (and to think that he wouldn&#8217;t give it to me!).  Unfortunately, that item is not in the picture.  My family bought a second-hand copy of the marblelicious <em>Pac-Man<\/em> board game you see on the floor there.  It was pretty dumb, if I recall &#8212; nothing could compare to playing the actual video game on our Atari 800 at the time.  And another of my brother&#8217;s friends had the <em>Pac-Man Fever<\/em> album, but they never let me listen to it.  I still hold it against them to this day.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, check out the other full scans below and behold the power of merchandising!  Warning &#8212; the full images are pretty big.  Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/pac-mania_1_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/pac-mania_1_small.jpg\" alt=\"The Ultimate Pac-Man Room 1\" \/><\/a>     <a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/pac-mania_2_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/pac-mania_2_small.jpg\" alt=\"The Ultimate Pac-Man Room 2\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p><em>[ Scanned by VC&#038;G from Popular Computing Magazine, December 1982 ]<\/em><\/p>\n<p><small><em>If you use these images on your site or blog, please support &#8220;Retro Scan of the Week&#8221; by giving us obvious credit for the original scan and entry.  Thanks!  We really appreciate it.<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So tell me, Pac-Friends. How many of these Pac-Man items do you have? (Check the scans below to get a full description of all the items.) Pac-Man this, Pac-Man that. It seems like they made a Pac-Man version of everything in the early 1980s. My brother&#8217;s friend had a metal Pac-Man trashcan that I was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,26],"tags":[65,1055,1424,891,291,60],"class_list":["post-288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video-game-collecting","category-retro-scan-of-the-week","tag-65","tag-bedroom","tag-merchandise","tag-pac-man","tag-popular-computing","tag-retro-scan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288","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=288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}