Eat The Dots, Don't Drink The Kool-Aid

Pac-Man 30th anniversary: Google celebrates with free online Pac-Man game hidden in logo - go play!
BY Jeff Zalesin
DAILY NEWS WRITER

“Originally Published:Friday, May 21st 2010, 1:46 PM”

“Google offers a free online Pac-Man game to celebrate the games 30th anniversary. Related NewsArticlesEating through history: Pac-Man turns 30. B'klyn artist turns Greenpoint into Pac-Man gameIt's the Pac-Man 30th anniversary this weekend, and Google is celebrating as only Google can: with a free online game embedded in its homepage logo.

The ever-changing Google logos - called Google Doodles - which often celebrate holidays and notable birthdays, was updated Friday to look like a screen classic Pac-Man game. “

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/2010/05/21/2010-05-21_google_celebrates_pacman_anniversery_with_playable_logo.html

OK, Pac-man is 30 years old, I wonder if those dots taste bland now-a-days? Is it me or do the ghosts seem more lackadaisical than they used to be?

Maybe it’s because I met Pac-man in a bar, and he seemed to be chased by ghostie roadrunners. Back then I was just barely legal. The drinking age was 18, kitties; but we had to walk five miles in the snow to get our liquor.

Nothing is the same as when Pac-man first showed his yellow, round, possibly ripped off from Wal-mart smiley face logo, back in 1980. We were genuinely frightened a lot. We worried about terrorists and the Middle East. Within a couple of years we worried over AIDS, though it wasn’t an acronym yet. We worried about our economic future. Schools were falling behind other countries like Japan, and before the end of the decade congressman were warning that we kids could never expect to have as successful an economic life as our parents were, at that time, enjoying.

I remember playing Pac-man waiting for my girl to get off work so we could neglect all our worries and dance to the Thomas Twins, “Hold Me Now” and forget about how unsafe we really felt. With a few chemicals and a better than average DJ, we whirled away anxiety and responsibility and felt safe for a little while.

Then came the day I figured out I wouldn’t live on this earth forever. I realized that if I did want something here, from this world system, then I had better start making a plan.

You know what? Things really haven’t changed that much. It’s your move.