The (Elkin-Jonesville, N.C.) Tribune has an excellent editorial up about the significance of Pac-Man s silver anniversary. The paper says the game has ushered in a video game age that is a legitimately transforming force in the most robust and diverse entertainment culture the world has ever known.

Unlike the Rubik s Cube, breakdancing, or even Michael Jackson, Pac-Man s range of influence is not restricted to simple 1980s nostalgia. The game represents the ground floor of a new medium interactive entertainment a billion-dollar enterprise now publicly traded on Wall Street. As jarring as it is to contemplate, alongside Morse s What has God wrought, and Bell s Watson, come here, Pac-Man was just as influential an American voice, even if all he said was Wakka-wakka-wakka.

Holy crap, a newspaper that get s it stop the presses.

Samuel Morse, Alexander Graham Bell, and Pac-Man [RedAssedBaboon]

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