Registered: Nov 2004
Location: Guatemala, Guatemala
Pac-man is at fault...
Someone has this as a sig in another forum...fucking awesome.
quote:
"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music." — Kristin Wilson, Nintendo Inc. (1989)
lol. not only does that quote claim being 20 years old, it's been on the internet since will smith has been seen riding around in cabs, but more so, if i remember correctly, it's a fake.
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Sep-28-2008 16:11
Cloudburst
I am the maximum
Registered: Oct 2003
Location: Jötebårj
quote:
Originally posted by whiskers
lol. not only does that quote claim being 20 years old, it's been on the internet since will smith has been seen riding around in cabs, but more so, if i remember correctly, it's a fake.
correct on all accounts. 10 points.
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Sep-28-2008 16:38
iammesol
Burnt out and grown up
Registered: Mar 2004
Location: Atlanta, USA
Guess where I saw that?
In someone's sig on this forum. It's still funny though.
Registered: Jul 2004
Location: Warsaw, Earth, 1 AU
never heard it before, good stuff
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Sep-28-2008 17:06
BeatsAndBeyond
5upreme tranceaddict
Registered: Mar 2007
Location: Warks
quote:
Marcus Brigstocke:
Ah! Bloody Pacman....It is my joke. I wrote it, then I took the rest of the day off as I was so chuffed with it. I am gutted that it has been claimed and passed around by so many people. Intellectual property law will not save me, the false claims will continue until I am man enough to give it all up. All I can say is -- it seems that it is very unlikely that it was written by a Nintendo employee in 1989, being as Pac Man was still around and not much of a childhood memory, there were very few claims that gaming influenced children's behaviour, and that the wording of it is identical to how it has been delivered in my stand up routine for 6 years! For those that are interested it has also been attributed to Bill Gates, but then so has Windows! Bitter? Well perhaps just a little. It was sent to me by someone at Channel 4 a few years back after I did it on Channel 4 in a late night stand up show! Hope that clears everything up.
