05/16/2006 Entry: "Pac-Ball."

Someone from work brought me back a gift from E3 – a blinking Pac-Man superball. It’s like I died and went to heaven and God told me I could make any wish I wanted so long as it was small and on the cheap. I love this ball, and if I ever lose a testicle, it will fill the gap.

Chestnuts roasted by Eddie Lightning Frog @ 05/16/2006 03:15 PM EST

Why don't I have coworkers like yours? Anyway, cool ball.

Chestnuts roasted by Hey I'm Jeff @ 05/16/2006 03:16 PM EST

I heart yellow blinking balls.

Chestnuts roasted by Kevin @ 05/16/2006 03:29 PM EST

It looks like Pac-Man has some internal hemorrhaging. Cool looking internal hemorrhaging none the less. And yes, I know that hemorrhaging can only occur internally, or can it?

Chestnuts roasted by Darth Poop @ 05/16/2006 03:44 PM EST

Awesome!

Chestnuts roasted by marioshoku @ 05/16/2006 03:53 PM EST

I knew you'd reviewed the Pac Man Christmas Special at some point. Glad to have finally found it!

Chestnuts roasted by Scott @ 05/16/2006 04:06 PM EST

I love toys! Last year I started collecting the wwe/wwf legends collection. I'm not collecting every single one mind you just my favorites from back in the day or the ones that stand out. So far I just have four but ill be getting more eventually.

Chestnuts roasted by PRSense @ 05/16/2006 04:09 PM EST

The Namco 'Arcade' booth was the best booth at E3 (besides the Nintendo one of course). You could get cool Pac-Man toys if you played a moblie arcade game (pac-man, galaga, etc). You'd get a token and you could use it in a capsule machine. That ball was rather hard to come by.

Also, thanks for the Amazing Stories article. Awesome show and thanks for the heads up on its DVD release!!!

Chestnuts roasted by Bobo Smak @ 05/16/2006 04:38 PM EST

That's some ball!

Chestnuts roasted by Spoodles @ 05/16/2006 04:59 PM EST

I....still...function!

And I love Pac-Man. Just reasserting my mad XE recognition as a semi-regular poster. I will try to say something entertaining next time.

Chestnuts roasted by Terror Claws Cole @ 05/16/2006 05:08 PM EST

Pac in the Sack?
i had to...
Someone go console the Widow Pacman

Chestnuts roasted by WonKa @ 05/16/2006 05:26 PM EST

Adding a blinking light will make anything better.

Chestnuts roasted by The Kraken @ 05/16/2006 05:33 PM EST

That's awesome, Matt. I gotta get to know your friends.

Chestnuts roasted by starwenn @ 05/16/2006 08:17 PM EST

I once ate something that looked just like that, and sadly it came out looking exactly the way it did when it came in...

In other words, I'm jealous.

Chestnuts roasted by Invader Norbert @ 05/16/2006 08:48 PM EST

Way cool!
Really enjoying the article highlights in entries recently

Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 05/16/2006 08:59 PM EST

Whoa, great gift. Almost as good as the PacMan Plug N Play game I got for Xmas- turning your TV into an arcade game is always enjoyable.

Matt- I remember you mentioning a PacMan tattoo on your arm...? Were you serious about that? If so, is it yellow or black? Just wondering as I am going to get my Thundercats tattoo this summer and I want to know if an 80s cartoon/logo really DOES make a good tattoo...or if tattoo artists screw them up!

Chestnuts roasted by Muppet Baby @ 05/16/2006 09:26 PM EST

let me have it.

Chestnuts roasted by dohopoki @ 05/16/2006 09:46 PM EST

Muppet -- Yes, I do really have that tattoo. Got it many years ago. Can't say I'm still the kind of person who would go out and get a random character forever etched onto a visible part of their body, but that's just because I'm old and boring. It's black and yellow -- classic Pac-Man, no shortcuts. Looks good.

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 05/16/2006 09:58 PM EST

Matt, I think not only would that ball make a good testicle replacement, but it would probably be better than the one you've got. Go on, get it replaced.

Chestnuts roasted by Mara @ 05/16/2006 10:16 PM EST

Blinking Pac-testicles? Truly, the future we have long envisioned is here.

And, in a bizarre coincidence, I have the same TV as Peter Brand does. Well, maybe it's the PAL version, but it's the same scarily ancient piece, with exciting modern features like 'colour'.

Chestnuts roasted by onslaught86 @ 05/17/2006 12:50 AM EST

For some reason, my grandmother had the Pac-Man board game at her house when I was growing up (this is odd because my grandmother and grandfather lived on a farm in the middle of nowhere and didn't exactly know who Pac-Man was nor play many board games), and when me and my cousins got together (there were 11 of us at the time), we'd break that sucker out.

We never played by the rules, mind you. But damn it was fun to live out Pac-Fantasy in 3-D.

Chestnuts roasted by Wukong @ 05/17/2006 03:04 AM EST

Last night I read this blog, then went to bed. During my sleep i had a dream about Pac-Man the cartoon.
Creepy.

Chestnuts roasted by kb @ 05/17/2006 07:38 AM EST

I would be lucky if my co-worker gave me a pen from the hotel he/she/it stayed at.

Chestnuts roasted by Geoffinsanity @ 05/17/2006 08:21 AM EST

When I went to Hawaii, I visited this store called "Toys N Joys." A suitcase already stuffed to the gills was the only thing that kept me from buying some of these things:

http://www.toysnjoys.com/namco_plush.html

Chestnuts roasted by Mike F @ 05/17/2006 08:46 AM EST

Matt- Yeah, I go for the "easily hidden by clothing" areas of the body for my tattoos. That's one of the things teachers gotta do. Thanks for the info.

Didn't PacMan have a cartoon alongside the Potato Head Kids? I seem to remember 2 shows-in-one with the Potato Head Kids...

Chestnuts roasted by Muppet Baby @ 05/17/2006 09:07 AM EST

Muppet Baby - You're thinking of Glo Friends. And they bothed aired within My Little Pony and Friends.

Chestnuts roasted by Mystie @ 05/17/2006 09:36 AM EST

Apocalypse Pony?
We need a picture of Matt beaning somebody in the head with his flashing testicle. And with the Pac-Ball.

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 05/17/2006 11:52 AM EST

I'm not a big believer in serendipity, but this is the second plastic testicle reference in as many days. The other was a story on Nuticles on Penn and Teller's Bullshit. Maybe it is a sign I need plastic nuts.

Chestnuts roasted by satyrlicious @ 05/17/2006 01:35 PM EST

cool youre pac man ARTICLES are cool

Chestnuts roasted by x-e fan @ 05/17/2006 04:44 PM EST

Blinking testicles would come in handy if you were jogging at night. Naked.

Chestnuts roasted by Welsh Rabbit @ 05/17/2006 05:06 PM EST

That's really cool!!

Chestnuts roasted by Mike the Great @ 05/17/2006 05:26 PM EST

"Maybe it is a sign I need plastic nuts."

Plastic Mystery (Pea)Nuts??

Chestnuts roasted by WonKa @ 05/17/2006 06:53 PM EST

I long for the day when I will have several arcade machines in my home. One would have to be Pac-Man. Definitely.

The others? Space Invaders and Jet-Pac.

Chestnuts roasted by CWH @ 05/18/2006 04:42 AM EST

I would be wary of using Pac Man as a testicle, if only because I fear ghost related testis attacks. Damn You Blinky!!1

Chestnuts roasted by Brentantation @ 05/18/2006 10:04 AM EST

I never had the Pac-Man boardgame like Wukong, but we did have the Frogger boardgame, and played it a surprising number of times, considering how simplistic it was. My brother got it for Christmas the same year I got the E.T. the Extraterrestrial boardgame, complete with cardboard chits simulating Reese's Pieces (My Grandmother always gave up boardgames for Christmas, which was awesome. And socks). The E.T. game saw alot of action, and I'm sure I still have it somewhere, though I wouldn't even begin to know where to look.

Chestnuts roasted by The Kraken @ 05/18/2006 10:18 AM EST

I wish I could find reprints of those board games from the backs of Post cereals from the Coleco Tabletop game giveaway. Little Brother and I played the Donkey Kong one to death. One player could be DK and chose which ladder the barrells would roll down.

"I know that monkey! His name is Donkey!"

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 05/18/2006 12:03 PM EST

Thanks, Mystie! That's right- they were with 'My Little Pony & Friends' I remember now.

But DID PacMan have a cartoon? I seem to remember one...and I KNOW I had PacMan story books...

Chestnuts roasted by Muppet Baby @ 05/18/2006 12:39 PM EST

I distinctly remember a Pac-Man cartoon, and Ms. Pac-Man was in it too. I'll be damned if I remember what was on before or after it, but I know it existed. Because I always wonder what was the deal with those red shoes.

Chestnuts roasted by LemurCat @ 05/18/2006 01:08 PM EST

"I know that monkey! His name is Donkey!"

Donkeys aren't monkeys, stop confusing me!

But Pac-man DID have a cartoon, 2 of them in fact. One was as a segment on Saturday Supercade, and later his own tv series which inluded the Xmas Special (all of which Matt had already reviewed)

And anyone who watched Sunday's Robot Chicken would have seen their take on MLP: My Little Apocalypse Pony. With 4 ponies in the set: Famine Pony, War Pony, Pestilence Pony, and DEATH PONY!!!

Wait a sec...this is Blog #777, Jackpot!!! And it's been 111 blogs since #666. Freaky.

Chestnuts roasted by Invader Norbert @ 05/18/2006 03:29 PM EST

It's an Invader! Possably named Norbert!

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 05/18/2006 03:34 PM EST

Indeed Pac-Man had a morning cartoon show, click my name for a link to a review of it. I bet you'll never guess who the review is by. Go on, give it a guess. Here's a hint, his name rhymes with Batt.

He has reviewed Pac-Man's Christmas special also, the link to which can be found in this very blog entry. Also notice he's got a link on that page to his review of Saturaday Supercade, a mixure of various video game themed cartoons.

Chestnuts roasted by The Kraken @ 05/18/2006 09:37 PM EST

Could I maybe... touch your ball, Matt?

Chestnuts roasted by Review the World @ 05/19/2006 09:50 AM EST

Shouldn't the Death Pony have been a pale horse?

NUMB CHUCKING!!!!!

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 05/19/2006 11:38 AM EST

Swallow it!!! Then you become the ghost as you chase it in your dump........gross dont do that.

Chestnuts roasted by Q @ 05/19/2006 02:24 PM EST

Oh man what was it they did to the kid after they where done numb chucking him lol I still say the best clip is the one where voltron got served

Chestnuts roasted by PRSense @ 05/19/2006 03:24 PM EST

I know I'm a few blogs late, but I stumbled into the trashier grocery store in town to get a soda this afternoon, and I found Crazy Citrus Cooler. And the tag on the shelf, as well as the reciept still say tangerine green. If I'm being honest after the first couple reminising sips, I really didn't want it any more. Why did I love it so?

Chestnuts roasted by kb @ 05/19/2006 03:29 PM EST

I'm a few blogs late myself, but I live in the UK and I can't get anything resembling Ecto Cooler!! I tried to buy a $2.99 crate of the stuff from Amazon and they wanted $74.99 for shipping!! Man, I want to taste the stuff but does anyone think that $78 is abit steap for pop??

Chestnuts roasted by Ryan H. @ 05/19/2006 07:08 PM EST

It took me until now to see it, but did anyone else realize that Pacman's eyes are just tiny Pacmen?

And furthermore, do each of those tiny Pacmen have even tinier Pac-eyes? And do those Pac-eyes have Pacmen behind them? Man....

Chestnuts roasted by Buhhhrito @ 05/24/2006 01:58 AM EST

I have the wind-up Pac-Man mentioned in one of the early comments. Doesn't really work anymore though. Found it at a garage sale last year.

Chestnuts roasted by Gooper Blooper @ 05/26/2006 12:16 PM EST