Pac-Man for the Atari 2600, What People Within Earshot Thought They Were Listening To
- Yaks in heat
- Vincent and/or B.O.B. from The Black Hole throwing up
- Asteroids
- An abusive robot father admonishing his robot son for not doing his robohomework
- Timex Sinclair 1000 suicide note
- Field testing of Casio Calculator and Philharmonic Watch
- Power Droids making sweet love
- Hollywood’s Salute to the Texas Instrument TI-99
- Uncle Harold after a trip to Arby’s
- Elevator stopping at every quarter-floor
- Pac-Man Fever turning into Pac-Man Hemorrhagic Fever
Listen my children and ye shall hear
Of a time when ports were never clear.
Back in the day, in eighty-one
Something unspeakably evil was done
To the game so many held cherished and dear.
We said to our friends, “If of man this is Pac,
As seen in cabinet & table at Pizza Hut
One can only assume a significant lack
Of development time, ’cause this = BUTT.
It sucked one by land, it sucked two and three,
But we had no idea. Because then came …E.T.