Well folks, as usual it’s been way too long between posts. No excuses other than laziness.

Anyway, I was surfing the web when I found this article over at 1.up.com celebrating twenty-five years of killing Dracula. That’s right: the Castlevania series is 25 years old.

It’s a good read and you should check it out here.

http://www.1up.com/features/castlevania-chronicles-killing-dracula-25-years

While blogging I was listening to Budgie – Heavier Than Air – Sky High Percentage

This is a great look back at what was the beginning of the third (or second, depending on how you decipher the trends) Video Game Boom. These were heady times for Gamers and Nintendo was leading the Video Game revolution here in North America.

Check out the video at the link below (or click the picture – your choice!)

http://vimeo.com/12997770

While Blogging I was listening to Wall of Voodoo – Call of the West – Mexican Radio

This made me laugh, both now and back when it was current!

Check out Freddie W rule the arcade… Like A BOSS

Arcade Dominator

Any way, I though I would share this fantastic video that I stumbled upon called Pixels. If you watch it, I think you’ll understand why it’s posted to this site.

Hope you enjoy!

PIXELS by PATRICK JEAN

While blogging I was listening to Syd Barret/Pink Floyd – Wouldn’t You Miss Me? – Octopus

The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow.

Crunchy numbers

A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 11,000 times in 2010. That’s about 26 full 747s.

In 2010, there were 11 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 124 posts. There were 14 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 388kb. That’s about a picture per month.

The busiest day of the year was June 22nd with 464 views. The most popular post that day was Nintendo Donkey Kong Game and Watch (1981) & Nintendo DS Lite (2006): Proof that Good Design is Timeless.

Where did they come from?

The top referring sites in 2010 were reddit.com, yesterdazearcade.com, stumbleupon.com, facebook.com, and search.aol.com.

Some visitors came searching, mostly for atari jaguar, tired, nintendo donkey kong, trogdor, and jaguar game system.

Attractions in 2010

These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.

Nintendo Donkey Kong Game and Watch (1981) & Nintendo DS Lite (2006): Proof that Good Design is Timeless February 2008
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Now Hunting for: the Elusive Atari Jaguar March 2008
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Play Classic Commodore 64 Games, Free, On-Line, Now… February 2010

Angry Video Game Nerd Discusses the Magnavox Odyssey April 2009
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My Collection of Coleco Mini Arcade Games February 2008
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Here they are:

Mine Storm

Bedlam

Berzerk

Scramble

Just very silly, stupid stuff and I love it.

Enjoy!

30 years…

Oh my god… I am officially old.

Ah, but I digress!

30 years ago today videogames officially became part of the main stream. A videogame starring a yellow circle character inspired by a pizza (true story, read about it here, that ran around a maze eating dots while being chased by ghosts exploded onto the scene. Pacman went from being just a videogame to being a huge media icon. If there was a way to market Pacman, then it was done. There was everything from Pacman cartoons on the television to a one hit wonder song playing on the radio (Pacman Fever by Buckner & Garcia).

Pacman’s goal was to navigate a maze eating all the dots while avoiding the ghosts. 

Each maze had four power pellets in each of the corners. When Pacman ate one of these power pellets the ghosts would for a short period of time turn blue and Pacman would be able to eat them, sending what appears to be their eyes back to their house (a square in the center of the maze). The more you played the faster the ghosts would get and the shorted the period when they were vulnerable after eating a power pellet.  Occasionally pieces of fruit would appear that Pacman could eat for bonus points.

Pacman spawned many sequels and clones, most of which paled when compared to the original with perhaps the exception of Ms Pacman started as an unauthorized modification of the original Pacman motherboard. Apparently a convoluted lawsuit took place between Namco and  General Computer Corporation (creators of the Ms Pacman modification). The suit was eventually dropped and they were in fact hired by Namco to make games for Atari.

Once again, I digress!

Pacman was (and is) a great game that changed the very face of pop culture forever.

Happy 30th birthday, Pacman.

Here are some cool (in my opinion at least) Pacman related links