July 3, 1999: Gobbling Up a 'Pac-Man' Record (Wired News) 1999: After nearly 20 years and millions of quarters, someone attains the unthinkable: a perfect score on Pac-Man . The world record was set by 33-year-old Billy Mitchell of Hollywood, Florida, during a U.S.-Canada clash over the Fourth of July weekend. Mitchell took more than six hours to complete the game at the Funspot Family Fun Center in Weirs Beach, New Hampshire. To achieve the ...
Pac-Man and other classic games being gobbled up by progress (The Capital Times)Galaga, Pong, Pac-Man, Donkey Kong, Space Invaders. A whole generation grew up at the arcade, armed with fistfuls of quarters or tokens, playing those classic video games. But as the youngest in that generation hits 30, arcades are dying out as home video game systems take over. After 37 years of operation, the video arcade on the first floor of the UW's Memorial Union shut down in May. In its ...
Avila's P4P List: Is Pac Man Number One? (The Sweet Science)Avila's P4P List: Is Pac Man Number One?
Video: Pac-Man, Space Invaders Laser Body Mods (Wired News)Forget tattoos. These days all the cool kids are using high speed laser etching machines to burn gaming icons onto their appendages.
Pages: 11 points for Pac-Man who scored 11 out of 10 (Sun Star)ONE, we pity David Diaz. My father-in-law, Jack Mendez, one of the toughest men I know who runs Centurion Security Agency and it?s over 1,000-strong force, wiped a tear in his eye when Diaz?s face, lying flat on the floor, all-bloodied with a lump on his left eye, was shown. Because while we cheered for Pac-Man, here was an opponent who grew up poor, whose father was a ?no-read, no-write? child, ...
The Pac-Man Cometh: Pacquiao destroys Diaz in 9 (East Side Boxing)30.06.08 - By Anthony Coleman , photo by Naoki Fukuda: Last night the Pac-Man arrived to another unforeseen land in an attempt to continue his reign of dominance.
There's nothing too extreme about 'Space Invaders' update (The State)The word "Extreme" in a video-game title tends to trigger a reflexive cringe in most gamers, especially when applied to a remake of a genre classic. But "Space Invaders Extreme" doesn't deserve this reaction. What "Pac-Man Championship Edition" did for "Pac-Man" last year, "SIE" has done for the 30-year-old "Space Invaders," taking the mechanics of this most basic of shooters and reworking them ...
Review: Kenny Chesney headlines the Poets & Pirates Tour at LP Field (The Tennessean)It's tough to draw a crowd in Nashville.