Dark Pac: Difference between revisions

But…But... something was off. Instead of reading Midway at the bottom of the screen under the ghosts' names, it said "Namco". This was bizarre, because, while Namco did develop the game, Midway licensed it for American releases and their company name was always at the bottom. This discrepancy gave me chills. Surely, something was sorely wrong. There's no way this could cabinet could be of this world. Though I was positively terrified, I suppose curiosity got the best of me. I inserted a quarter and started up the game.

But things started to change soon after. The "wakka"s got quieter and quieter. The ghosts' siren sound was still playing at the same volume, but Pac-Man's voice followed a decrescendo into just a murmur. Finally, he made no noise. Pac-Man stopped in the middle of the maze, something that can't be done in regular gameplay. The ghosts' siren stopped to. From the cabinet's speakers emerged a cough. It started out sounding like a fake cough, the kind kids would use to avoid youth basketball practice in the third grade. However, it developed into violent hacking and wheezing. Was…Was... was Pac-Man sick? I figured that even Pac-Man was immune to common viruses. But the coughing got worse. The sound of vomit came out in between intervals of coughs. And finally, after one awful sounding cough, the Pac-Man sprite spit out blood.