Retro Scan of the Week: “Good Gobbling and Good Luck”
April 10th, 2006 by Benj Edwards
From the golden era of fancifully-rendered video game character depictions comes this gem, a scan from the instruction manual of the Atari 800 version of Pac-Man. Considering what we actually see in the game, the illustrator (“HIRO”) has chosen quite a liberal interpretation of Pac-People, drawing them as anthropomorphic, rubbery stick figures with giant round heads. For more of Hiro’s skinny Pac-Men, check out this buck-toothed Pac-Guy running for his life while eating floating discs from the cover of the manual.
April 10th, 2006 at 8:33 am
While I remember the cover, I hadn’t seen the inside. That is pretty wicked =)
April 10th, 2006 at 9:07 am
It says the bad guys are goblins. I was sure they were ghosts…
April 10th, 2006 at 12:07 pm
They all seem pretty cheerful despite the fact that many are not expected to make it back alive. Maybe their mood is lifted by the assortment of pin-ups in the bunker.
Good find.
April 12th, 2006 at 12:36 am
Hilarious. The ghosts on the cover look wicked cool though.
November 21st, 2006 at 6:03 am
it reminds me of that pac-man cristmas tv special