Recently I was in a Twitch stream where people were mocking the existence of the 1984 Namco platformer Pac-Land (actually kind of a cool and original game for the era IMO) essentially saying “lmao WHY would you make a game like this using Pac-Man? What was Namco thinking?!” (1/2)
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Sometimes loving old video games is a bit like loving old movies. In both cases you have to put up with people who only look at them to sneer from a place of imagined cultural superiority at how (to them) laughably quaint or dated aspects of those works seem now.
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And I’m not saying people shouldn’t be critical. Everyone knows I absolutely believe in criticism. But not from that place of haughty generational arrogance. That’s bullshit. The things we love today will seem quaint and dated tomorrow, too.
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Ohman! I LOVED Pac Land as a kid, though I don't really have an explanation as to why. But there is a huge nostalgic part of me that would love to play it again.
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Don’t remember which one(s) offhand but it is available in some Namco collections on current consoles I think! One Pac-Man collection on Xbox for sure, maybe others.
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I mean... Pac-Man Fever.
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It's pretty much equivalent to saying "Lol, Nintendo put Mario, a platformer character, in a racing game/falling blocks puzzler/golf RPG/etc, what were they thinking???!?!?!?!"
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Jumpman, the guy who climbs ladders and dodges barrels thrown by Donkey Kong? Please, he’s not a star.
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