Racionalization rules.

This would make a damn fine t-shirt.

The picture actually comes from a threadless t-shirt.

It's bee stolen and posted all over the place, but that's where it's from originally

[www.threadless.com]

wow

i am actually really creeped out by that

@Dan Zuccarelli: haha, well that explains that. I've been to threadless quite often. Probably subliminally put the idea of that being a t-shirt into my head without me remembering.

YTMND getting Kotaku coverage? Pfft.
But the site is fairly good. I want the t-shirt that comes from.

i got one o them shirts! i had to wait 6 months for it to reprint too! worth every penny!

This is a wicked ass pic! Explains the hell out of Pac-Man.

@bangbangblah:

I'm surprised to see it pop up on a bunch of sites all the sudden, it's been on threadless for ages.

It's a great shirt though

Badass. Never seen a YTMND here before.

I would actualy love to read a comic book about this, it would be full of teh lulz

Owen, are you crazy? Just listen to that 303 rip... awesome remix and yes it all now makes sense.

Bought this shirt from Threadless when it was on sale for $10. It is awesomeness.

Clever

Weird.

Well, there goes $15 bucks on another awesome t-shirt for me! I dunno why I keep buying these things. I can really only wear them on weekends because of my job these days!

Today I'm wearing that cream colored Zelda shirt that W00t! was selling a few weeks ago, by the way.

@Mr. Fap☆Fap!: I bought that shirt too, did you see this kickass Duck Hunt one?

[www.thebbps.com]

Yup, just ordered it from Threadless, I hope you guys are on commission here...

I love the subtlety of the helmet.

I am a sucker for threads...

There's something quite Scooby Dooish about them ghosts...

it all makes sense now.

@Cruithne: Tell you what: now someone can follow the below link, and I will get paid a commission. If, you know, that's how they want to roll.

[www.threadless.com]

Makes me wonder what the power pellets are...

It all makes sense now... also second that Tshirt idea O_o

Shouldn't the pills be white?

That's probably the best Pac-Man illustration I've ever seen!

Now that theres an actual story behind Pac-Man- its gunna be hella hard to actually go with it since it advocates drugs. It be so cool if they used this as their real story.. >=D

where the hell is the t-shirt.. I need a t-shirt -_- .. NOW

o well another threadless purchase for me. alreday ordered... woo hoo!

I've got the shirt and the wierd mindbending looks i get when i wear it are priceless. You see the image popping up more and more on the intertron now it seems so it wont be long before people will actually get the joke beforehand.

Hey, that makes more sence than I figured Pac-Man could. Neat!

@ebheble: exactly!!

I made a wallpaper of this awhile back, but if I made a link for it, I'd totally be infringing.

True story:
In 1976, Cosmonaut Nikolai Peckmann was sent alone to an orbiting space station for what would be called Mission Six- to study the radiation levels and strange circumstances that killed all four crewmen of the last research mission.
By the third day, Peckmann's broken transmissions were coming back to ground control filled with increasing paranoia and delusion. He claimed that the spirits of the dead cosmonauts were coming to claim him, and that he had to keep moving to evade them. He shouted that if he could capture consume these spirits himself while he still had strength, he could move to the next level of consciousness...Truly the rantings of an insane man.
Indeed, video recovered later would show Peckmann running around the confined but maze-like station, downing emergency sedatives like a madman....pausing in a corner momentarily, only to throw back vitamin pills and give chase to his invisible demons.
He had exhausted the entire cargo of vitamins, pills, and fresh fruit well ahead of schedule. There was no way another crew could be assembled to rescue him before he starved. After one rather violently garbled transmission, the static cleared and the last live image on record is that of Peckmann's empty, wilted spacesuit on the cabin floor.
It was determined that another mission to recover any remains or gather any more research would be a waste of the people's money, and the station was allowed to drift out of orbit and into space- a failure never to be mentioned again. It was ordered and assumed that all video and paper evidence had been destroyed.

..then, at the dawn of the eighties, a fledgling arcade game company called NAMCO would stumble across the transcripts of these events, and the rest -as they say- is history.

okay i just made all that crap up, but with or without a story, I hope it's a cool design.

@Strange Bedfellows: By the way, that's a quote from Travis76, the designer of the T-Shirt.

@Strange Bedfellows: Travis76 aka Travis Pitts.

That shrit reminds me of the scooby doo episode with space phantom scared the crap out of me as a kid.

@Mustakrakish: If you were to read 3 posts up, you'd realize that this is from Threadless.

[www.threadless.com]

Now thats a movie I would watch.

@bangbangblah: I thought the same thing. I really want to make that a t shirt.

@ocha: It is a t=shirt on Threadless: [www.threadless.com]

@Obliquity: *t-shirt.

$20 after shipping... dang. Anyone got coupon codes?

I actually turned my volumes down. I was thinking it would scream like one of those exorcist clips.

O-L-D.

owen you are like an embedded reporter, haha. great link, as always

yeah, I knew I saw this on threadless

It's a great picture, I may just get this shirt.

I rock this shirt, and hard.

Actually, I had to purchase this shirt to balance myself in my girlfriend's eyes after buying that shirt that said "SHIRT, LOL" on the front.

I love it! The art is reminiscent of Johnny Quest or early Scooby Doo.

One small note though, Pac Man was originally licensed for the arcade from Namco to Midway, not Atari. But of course neither of them had a good logo to put on the space suit...! Just kidding anyway, I would totally buy this as a shirt.

@mr.dandy: Yeah, thats what the ghost remind me of, that one ghost on Scooby Doo.

Somone has been reading digg today...

DO NOT WATCH THAT ANIMATION WHILE DRINKING KOOL-AID.

ph15h over and out.

if anyone wants it I made a quick little wallpaper of this
[i141.photobucket.com]

That image must be from the shirt because it has writing on the box and the animation does not.

On the downside: now there is a basis for a crappy movie.

@Chupakun: @mr.dandy: Ok it's good to know I'm not the only one that was thinkin' that...XD

Too classic....now I wanna find this t-shirt of that everybody's talkin' about!

Guess I just gotta settle on the wallpaper (thanks PSN: kingpsyz)! ;)

Lol, I own this shirt, it's pretty old too.

I found that beat pretty damn catchy.

This was REALLY boring.

Everyone MUST be playing GTAIV or something...

@mr.dandy:
Glad I'm not the only one to notice the Atari logo. :)
Although, I think Atari had the license to make the 2600 version of Pac-Man. And they surely did for the NES version (Tengen was a brand name they used for console games, especially unlicensed NES games).

@Sigma-D: Pretty much. Now if you'll excuse me, I've gotta go make Niko throw bricks at anyone who yells at him when he bumps into them. Then run, giggling like a Slavic school girl. Fuck, I love this game.

I LOVE IT!

@ShaggE: Oh I hear ya. It's definitely a good game. Just a quick question for anyone (and a off-topic):

Has anyone checked their stats on GTAIV? On the Addiction Level under GENERAL, what does yours say? Mine says: 'Wake Up Buzz'

I might have to pick up this shirt if it becomes reavailable on Threadless. Never bought a shirt from there before, only a couple from Shirt.Woot.com but if they produce something like this then I might have to start visiting them more frequently.

Anybody else who thought about the power rangers instead of Pac-Man when seeing the picture?

whaaaat! i've seen that design so many times on threadless and never noticed it was pacman

i like the design.

i also like drugs and pacman. here is a cartoon i made featuring both!

[video.google.com]

I am in awe of how awesome that picture is

@Sigma-D: Last I checked, it was "That's some good shit." Most likely changed by now, though.