In fact, come to that, I may simply never look at
Pac-Man again. It's just too horrifying.
Zach Weiner's
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal comic crosses the generation gap between an arcade-loving man and a desensitized modern-day kid. Arcade games? Boring? Oh no. Arcade games are
terrifying.
"Pacman," the man explains, "is the story of a man who wakes up one day to find he is nothing but a mouth." And the ghosts? They envy the living, and their ability to eat. The sordid tale creates a whole new level of 8-bit existential horror. Maybe the
horror movie interpretation isn't so far off, after all. Now if you'll excuse me, I need to go play something less creepy for a while to clear the horror away. Like
BioShock or maybe
Resident Evil.
Pac-Man As a Horror Movie
So, according to this fan film, Pac-Man is actually a creeper who goes around attacking defenseless …
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Scroll down or
hit up the site for the full comic, but just know that it may ruin
Pac-Man forever for you, too.
Old Video Games [Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal]
Yeah I was bored and I was just sending this to a friend o-o (#MINDBLOWN)