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[Ape]

what motivates these hostile little specters? They relentlessly pursue pacman with what seems to be no reason at all. Are those pellets their babies? If thats so just tell me, I'll stop eating them right now

 

[PirateKing]

Why is Zelda not named after the hero?

 

[Fracas]

they're comin for DAT BOOTY

 

[Coffee Dog]

PAC-MAN's all consuming rampage won't stop until they kill him.

 

[bobawesome]

Who do you think turned them into ghosts?

 

[ZiZ]

he keeps eating their pills.

 

[BriGuy]

They're Pac-man's murdered ex-wives.

 

[Ape]

Who do you think turned them into ghosts?

Death obviously

 

[LiamR]

Why do you ask dumb questions?

 

[unholyrevenger72]

nvm: beaten

 

[Azalean]

The game designer designed them to do that.

 

[UpDownLeftRight]

If I just materialized in your house and started munching up anything I can find I'm pretty sure you'd want me out too.

 

[Mr-Joker]

There's a food shortage and they are trying to stop Pac-Man from being a greedy bastard and eating all the food.

Pac-Man is the bad guy.

 

[RazorbackDB]

some creepypasta shit going on here, if they were not there what would be the point of the game? no gameover.

 

[Diprosalic]

are Pokemon named after what they are saying or are they saying what people have named them?

 

[Finale Fireworker]

This is why I could never get into Pac-man. The lore is really shallow.

 

[Falk]

If I just materialized in your house and started munching up anything I can find I'm pretty sure you'd want me out too.

Ghosts don't have houses.

edit: I stand corrected

 

[Daria Morgendorffer]

The ghosts are actually a metaphor for death, death always chases you but thanks to modern medicine (represented by the fruit) you can cheat death a little. Death will always return after a while tho, it is just the fate of mankind (pac-mankind)

 

[More Fun To Compute]

Pac man is a pizza and the ghosts are people who want to eat pizza.

 

[kyser73]

Pac-Man is stealing all their drugs.

The ghosts are actually a metaphor for death, death always chases you but thanks to modern medicine (represented by the fruit) you can cheat death a little. Death will always return after a while tho, it is just the fate of mankind (pac-mankind)

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[sixteen-bit]

to add tension and a loss state

 

[Orbis Tabula]

Because he's a yummy yummy pizza.

 

[Mr-Joker]

are Pokemon named after what they are saying or are they saying what people have named them?

That only exist in the Animé, more so in the Dub. The Pokémon actually growl grunt like animals.

 

[stan423321]

The game represents Pacman's quest for pills. Their consumption had many side effects, ranging from dramatic vision improvement to body transformation and addiction, leading him to chomp everything mindlessly. The ghosts represent his conscience's projection of his workmates he mindlessly chomped through earlier. When Pacman confronts his conscience, he stops chomping, leading his addicted organism to immediate destruction. Unless he's high after consuming a condensed pill, in which case he manages to defeat his conscience. It was all there in the arcade machine's setup manual, in the section of license explaining why shouldn't it be placed near to automatic medicine dispensers.

 

[rtcn63]

Pac-Man reminds the ghosts of Polygon

 

[thekonamicode]

 

[Shanlei91]

This is why I could never get into Pac-man. The lore is really shallow.

Like Halo, all the answers can be found in the supplemental material.

 

[Canucked]

Are those pellets their babies?

Ghosts can't have babies. Learn to science.

 

[Princess Viola]

screw mario

pac-man has the deepest lore

 

[Why would you do that?]

According to Pac-Man 2 (an awesomely weird adventure game on SNES and Genesis), the ghosts are just minions of the Ghost Witch of Nectar. Though now I kind of wonder what Pac-Man did to make said Ghost Witch mad in the first place...

 

[dorkkaos]

"A reaper explained to Dean Winchester that the longer a ghost remains on earth the more dangerous and violent it becomes. Sam Winchester once explained to the ghost of a woman they helped that ghosts can become like injured animals - they become so angry and upset that all they can do is lash out at anyone who crosses their paths."

-Source: Supernatural Wiki


Makes sense.

 

[ShockingAlberto]

ghosts cant eat

 

[Travo]

Maybe the ghosts are all in his mind from the pills he's taken.

 

[SalvaPot]

Pills and fruit is not a healthy diet.

 

[Übermatik]

Why does PAC-MAN chase ghosts.

 

[MattyG]

He's the reason they're ghosts.

 

[Choomp]

Yeah, cause we'd know or something. Why does Bowser kidnap Peach all the time?

 

[Beren the Empty-Handed]

What I want to know is whether or not Clyde is adopted. He's the only one with a different sounding name. Now it could be that their parents just wanted to mix it up, but it might be that that was his given name before the Ghostparents took him in. I'm just saying, I think there's room for an origin story here.

 

[Paper Sparrow]

Yeah, cause we'd know or something. Why does Bowser kidnap Peach all the time?

He needs a partner for family game night.

 

[Rabbi_Vole]

PAC is Slimer and the ghosts are Egon, Peter and Ray..

No Winston. Atari was pretty racist back in the day.

 

[Jigorath]

He knows what he did.

 

[Lulubop]

Pacman is about abortion,

think about it.

 

[Dictator93]

This was the image I was looking for. Thank you!

 

[MightyHedgehog]

Stop trying to ruin gaming with your dumb need for stories.

 

[Opto]

Pacman, like the Katamari, is the extreme end of consumerism and capitalism. The ghosts represent constraints on those concepts, trying to ensure conservation of resources, but when Pacman has a huge chunk of resources, he can overpower the needs of the masses and do away with them, at least for a while

 

[SillyEskimo]

The dead envy the living.

 

[Daria Morgendorffer]

Dude, what if we are the ghosts and pac-man is the game we wanna play, and if we don't look out we get consumed by our hobby.

 

[BibiMaghoo]

"A reaper explained to Dean Winchester that the longer a ghost remains on earth the more dangerous and violent it becomes. Sam Winchester once explained to the ghost of a woman they helped that ghosts can become like injured animals - they become so angry and upset that all they can do is lash out at anyone who crosses their paths."

-Source: Supernatural Wiki


Makes sense.

It's called redirected aggression.

My cat does it. It's problematic.

 

[DrZeus]

Mind blown.

 

[braves01]

The ghosts are actually angels trying to help Pac-Man move on from the labyrinthine hell of endless consumption.