Game of the Week
Pac Man
🗨️ "I used to think getting to the orange levels made me a genius. Still remember the exact joystick rhythm for those tight turns!"
— BettysGirls217
Pac Man
🗨️ It was Christmas 1986. I was 11, in 6th grade, and obsessed with arcades — but we didn’t go often. That year, my uncle showed up with a giant box: the Nintendo Entertainment System. My hands shook when I unwrapped it. That night, I played Super Mario Bros. for the first time in our wood-paneled living room on a 19-inch RCA. I stayed up until 3AM, even though I had a curfew. It was magic. The game felt like an entire world inside my house. That moment made me a lifelong gamer.
-Tom B
Pac Man
🗨️ "I never realized how intense that simple waka-waka could be until those ghosts started chasing me down. Blinky still gives me anxiety."— GamerDad74 .
Pac Man
🗨️ In 1982, I was a 19-year-old college freshman. I didn’t have a car, but my roommate had a beat-up Chevelle. We'd drive to the FunTime Arcade off campus every Friday. I always ran to the Pac-Man machine, quarters jingling in my jacket. I’d play until my fingers ached. The ghosts had personalities, and it felt like I was solving a colorful maze-puzzle that danced. We laughed, flirted, competed — it was pure joy. I remember losing track of time and missing curfew more than once. Worth it every time.
Pac Man
🗨️ "Pac-Man was the first game I ever got hooked on. I was 12, had braces, and used to sneak quarters from the laundry jar just to keep playing at the corner arcade!"— TammyRetro81
Pac Man
🗨️ " I was 9 in 1990 when I got my Game Boy. My parents bought it before a long road trip to visit my grandparents. It came with Tetris, and I was instantly hooked. "