PATREON: / heisanevilgenius WEBSITE: www.heisanevilg... Honourable Mention A man made out of the concept of eating must eat special pills in order to make ghosts edible.
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@phantasMoon698 жыл бұрын
Wow that last "cutscene" with that pink creature really has shaken my ground. What are they really?
@rwiseart22698 жыл бұрын
Inky, Blinky, Pinky and Clyde must just be.....!!! LOOK AT PAC MAN'S AMERICAN ARCADE ART! THAT MUST BE WHAT THEY ARE!
@kimifw588 жыл бұрын
Yes, because America always has a clear understanding of Japan's 8-bit sprites, especially in the culturally aware 1980s.
@mariic28 жыл бұрын
They're phallic, _that's_ for sure.
@KaedeLanyo8 жыл бұрын
I'm thinking... Terrifying sapient chodes with eyes... Ew.
@therealseanw.stewart20718 жыл бұрын
It's interesting to note that, like maybe some other younger folks here, I for one never really had the time (or skill) to play the original Pac-Man enough to see that one weird cutscene with Blinky losing a bit of his "cloth" even though I remember it being mentioned in Smash Bros. It's one of the more...interesting parts of the game, really that no one else really talks about, as iconic as the game is. :/
@ahrichards52416 жыл бұрын
The Real Sean W. Stewart Because you have to clear level 9 to see it, and i guess few people could do that
@ClevelandRock8 жыл бұрын
I don't know where you heard Pac-Man was based on the kanji for "mouth." The story I heard is that the creator ate a slice of pizza and was like, "Oh hey, I should make a character out of this pizza with a missing slice."
@DanHarkless_Halloween_YTPs_etc8 жыл бұрын
Based on what I've read, I believe he's given both explanations at different times. Yeah, the kuchi kanji one does seem fishy.
@Larry8 жыл бұрын
Ghosts apparently taste like fried eggs if you manage to eat one in real life.
@StellaFangX8 жыл бұрын
Didn't ghost melts you if you touch them? At least according to Uninvited.
@phantasMoon698 жыл бұрын
I thought about ice cream since y'know wiki page
@kimifw588 жыл бұрын
Japan comes up with weird flavors of things we normally eat.
@Mattteus8 жыл бұрын
the character 'kuchi' means 'mouth' and was originally more circular in ancient times. The shape of the character has changed but its meaning hasn't. Also, the 'pac' from his name is from the onomatopoeic Japanese word 'pakupaku' (which roughly translate to 'nom nom') so the mouth-based design isn't that far fetch. It's all still weird as hell. Especially when they turn into worms.
@ShinSeikiEvan8 жыл бұрын
I think that origin story is false. (He also told a story about getting the idea from a pizza with a slice removed.) He very likely ripped off the name and character from this old board game: pacman.wikia.com/wiki/Pac-Man_(TOMY_board_game)
@Mattteus8 жыл бұрын
Shin Seiki Evan I knew nothing about that
@ahrichards52416 жыл бұрын
Shin Seiki Evan Here's my theory on how things happened: Namco brought their PuckMan arcade game to Midway for distribution in the Western world, but Midway thought the name would be too prone to vandalism, so they noticed the original name was パックマン, and also noticed another product with that name by Tomy, which was originally a piggy bank and later a board game. When they were brought to the US, the board game was called Mr. Mouth, but the bank was called Pac Man. Midway saw Pac Man as a suitable name for the arcade game, but added a hyphen to make the name somewhat different from the existing piggy bank.
@FarelForever8 жыл бұрын
Props Tom for making another episode based on a game that one would think we could not find weird anymore....... I never played the arcade version, so I never knew about those animations
@Jigglysaint8 жыл бұрын
I don't know what is weirder. Pac-Man, the Weird Video game series, or the comments section.
@bigaj19927 жыл бұрын
Jigglysaint did you know they are kinda like snails
@aasdddddfasdf7 жыл бұрын
fnaf fan -games and more! What?
@AE-jo2fy3 жыл бұрын
"Coptic Blast" Has to be the best original pun I've heard in a long time!😂
@kimifw587 жыл бұрын
Sheet ghosts have been around since the 1800s. It originated in English theater as a way to deviate from the image of men in clunky armor and imitate the ethereal nature of spirits. Japan, being influenced by western culture since the Meiji era, was most likely familiar with that image by 1980. If that is what Iwatani-san was going for, it's probably because they're easier to draw as 8-bit sprites.
@handsomebrick5 жыл бұрын
That explains so much.
@HHog8 жыл бұрын
That third sourced page is in Dutch, and it also calls them ghosts.
@AitorMolina.8 жыл бұрын
I can't wait for Captic Blast Homecoming!
@yoymate6316 Жыл бұрын
this channel is pure gold, where have you been all my life
@strongblade8 жыл бұрын
I was ten when Pac Man came out. And from what I remember, it was a very unique experience at the time. As for the first 'cute' game? Possibly. I can't think of an arcade game before Pac Man that could be categorized as 'cute'. As for the 'ghosts'. Back in 1980, everyone just seemed to refer to them as ghosts (as opposed to 'goblins') so I guess that is how they were officially referred to (at least in North America) but having never been very good, I never saw the cut scene with the torn 'sheet' or the weird thing under it.
@Tricob19748 жыл бұрын
It's no surprise this game made the list. The references to illegal drugs are all over the place - extreme hunger, power pills that seem to alter the rules of reality, the flashing of the mazes when all the dots are eaten, enemies that seems to suffer "memory lapses" and suddenly abort hunting down Pac-man ... The list goes on. Even the graphics are deliberately unrealistic, as the images of both the "hero" and the "enemies" are greatly distorted by influence of the drug. You're not sure what these things actually look like in real life, but you're so immersed by everything that you're doing and what's going on, you don't ever really think about it. And although what happens in Level 256 in definitely a bug, it does open the door to a long list of interpretations as to what just happened.
@handsomebrick8 жыл бұрын
Reminds me of this. 66.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_li0rvphjry1qgelafo1_500.jpg
@Tricob19748 жыл бұрын
handsomebrick - Good link. Thanks. B-)
@DanHarkless_Halloween_YTPs_etc8 жыл бұрын
Awesome image!
@Dracomut8 жыл бұрын
Pac-man is in fact based off of a pizza with a slice taken out of it
@steelgriffin77167 жыл бұрын
... I would totally read Coptic Blast.
@ShadowWingTronix8 жыл бұрын
The story I always heard was that the designer and some other people were eating a pizza, the designer saw it with a slice or two missing, and that inspired the design.
@Lordodragonss8 жыл бұрын
Ice cream goblin ghosts sound reasonable! They are tasty, fast and have ghost powers!
@ocallaghandesign8 жыл бұрын
Thumbs up for Coptic Blast!
@lowtierhuman698 жыл бұрын
Hahaha. I enjoyed your take on things. It is a trippy game when you stop & think about it. Thanks!
@Tailikku18 жыл бұрын
I would like to bring up that "monsters" comes from the marquee in the Midway publications of the game. No clue about Goblin, although it was used as the name for a bootleg multicart (like the one reviewed by Rinry)
@DanHarkless_Halloween_YTPs_etc8 жыл бұрын
Whoa! I'd never seen that last cutscene before -- I've always wondered if there were more after the nail one -- rather disturbing-looking! Kind of nice that you immortalized what the Wikipedia page used to claim the ghosts' different names were. I was recently editing the page to note that the 1980 American arcade flyer called them both "monsters" and "ghost monsters" before the 2600 version manual called them ghosts, and I was skeptical about the "goblins", "demon" [sic.], "octopi", and "ice cream", but I gave it a pass since I figured it might be true in international versions of the game; however, someone came along just after my edit and took out everything but "ghosts" and "monsters" (though thankfully they left my second reference to "ghost monsters").
@jareknowak87128 жыл бұрын
Why only 7k subs? Why?
@andrewollmann3048 жыл бұрын
Since when has a ghost ever said "Woowoowoowoo?" Are you confusing a ghost with an ambulance? (I'm being facetious, of course.)
@WeirdVideoGames8 жыл бұрын
I always get those two confused!
@FoxMan_FF8 жыл бұрын
Mmm, now I want to go look up Forbidden Forest again. I love the Archer and his sweet dance moves.
@Cp-718 ай бұрын
There actually is a game where one of the characters (sort of, he's more of the narrator) is the kanji mentioned here - it's called Mojib-Ribbon.
@y2k8908 жыл бұрын
Pacman reminds me of the Bavarian Butt Biter.
@Darth234Ravenous3 жыл бұрын
I think there's a very obvious reason they changed his name from puckman.
@durece1008 жыл бұрын
You don't get it. Pac-man is a 7/8 fraction circle. Tell me explain: when someone take a slice of pizza from a whole pizza, Pac man was born!
@handsomebrick5 жыл бұрын
There's an old superstition that if only one slice of a pizza is eaten, it will turn into a Pac-Man. Some say that the superstition was invented by the nobility to keep their servants from stealing slices of their pizza.
@Hydrofobic20018 жыл бұрын
Ah... Marilyn Manson references:P
@minespatch8 жыл бұрын
Alright, that last part made me curious.
@memyopinionsche66108 жыл бұрын
so all this time you have playing a evil bad guy.
@captainjurgh81426 жыл бұрын
Pac-Man was used to at least normal and classic arcade game. ... 'Til he married wtih Ms. Pac-Man... And have son, and made more crossovers and spin-offs.
@supernintendo1824 жыл бұрын
And then a cartoon, and then a platforming series, and then a redesign that nobody liked, and then another cartoon, and then another platforming series that wasn't as good, and now finally while he isn't beating up Mario in Smash Bros. for managing to stay relevant while he himself languishes in the realm of forgotten Namco IPs, he's starring in a bunch of weird mobile spin-offs and being in "Pac-Man Arcade Rerelease #347 (Plus Some Other Games That You Don't Care About)".
@elianrodriguez9196 жыл бұрын
Maybe pacman should be called the yellow snapslug
@themadwhitaker8 жыл бұрын
Mmm, delicious ghosts.
@kimifw588 жыл бұрын
According to a documentary I saw years ago, Iwatani-san made this game to appeal more to women, and he noticed that women liked eating, so he made the game about eating. Wikipedia says appealing to women is why he made it cute, and he got the eating idea from Popeye. Okay, then.
@handsomebrick5 жыл бұрын
Pac-Man didn't invent anything in my opinion. It's a clone of Space Chaser, and its cuteness is taken from Heiankyo Alien. Also Heiankyo Alien's title screen starts with a UFO appearing overhead and a bunch of aliens tumbling out to spell the word "alien", so Pac-Man didn't invent funny cutscenes either. Pac-Man also supposedly introduced girls to games, even though Pong was more popular with girls than boys. My own guess for the first "cute" game would be Space Invaders.
@SOADandLeftWing8 жыл бұрын
Does anyone have more info about pacman unknown things?
@Jaimetud8 жыл бұрын
Yup.... this game be weird. No denying.
@Bioburningk3 жыл бұрын
I like to think there slugs under the sheat
@phantasMoon698 жыл бұрын
Hey Tom :) you really should do a let's play of a classic game in twitch an hour or so in a month, it'd actually be pretty cool. Annouce it via a yt video to let us now. Think about it!
@WeirdVideoGames8 жыл бұрын
Thanks! Yeah, next time I do a stream, I'll let people know via KZfaq. :)
@moonstoneuniverse85163 жыл бұрын
I had a full blown argument about pac mans shape and she said maybe if you look at him from the front he looks like kuchi and I’m just like 🙄
@NovazDemonz6 жыл бұрын
Q*bert is a cute game but pac man I never was able to beat it
@XanthinZarda8 жыл бұрын
The best Pac-Man game, is clearly the Pac-Man 2: The New Adventures, where the player has absolutely no agency over the protagonist. A really crap version of Wonder Project J, if you will.
@rwiseart22698 жыл бұрын
I've always wanted to play Wonder Project J and J2. They look so fun
@johnathanclark796 жыл бұрын
Wait Pac-Man isn’t a puck? The ghost weren’t ghost? Weird.
@mr.froglito14746 жыл бұрын
There worms from worms
@katefeider3 ай бұрын
pac-man is a pizza.
@nesmario1237 жыл бұрын
REUPLOAD THE DI'S BABY VIDEO!
@WeirdVideoGames7 жыл бұрын
I actually was planning on uploading it last month and then I found out my copies of the video both are corrupt. :( I don't have them anymore.
@nesmario1237 жыл бұрын
REMAKE DI'S BEEB
@musashi7778 жыл бұрын
I don't think that Pac man and the japanese word for mouth, kuchi, are related. Pac in japanese is more connected to the onomatopoeic word paku, that is the sound of someone who eats a lot in a hurry…voraciously
@loneshewolf747 жыл бұрын
If you over-analyze every little bit weirdness in video games you take all the fun out of them. It's their being illogical, or having a different logic or set of rules than real life that makes them fun. Same goes for cartoons. Who wants to play a game where everything is normal? Boring!
@WeirdVideoGames7 жыл бұрын
Your comment suggests that I don't like weird games or something. I like breaking them down for all their weirdness, exposing it, and poking fun at it. Sorry if you think that takes all the fun out of it. For me that's just part of the fun. Ironically, what takes the fun out of it is when someone tries to tell me that what's fun for me shouldn't be fun for anyone.