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    It Was Called Pac-Man Land

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    Image of Orionz Dream Orionz Dream
    08/11/09

    In reply to It Was Called Pac-Man Land
    Crap all we had was Smurf Village
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    Image of Torgen got 99 problems but the PAXFlu ain't one Torgen got 99 problems but the PAXFlu ain't one
    09/11/09

    @Orionz Dream: Canada's Wonderland, or were there other Smurf Villages?
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    Image of ca$h is Mr. Happy ca$h is Mr. Happy
    08/11/09

    In reply to It Was Called Pac-Man Land
    Least they didn't go with their original title - Puck-Man Land - for fear of attracting the wrong crowd.
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    Image of SFLegend SFLegend
    08/11/09

    @ca$h is now... The Repo Man!: Hockey players?
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    Image of Phanta Phanta
    08/11/09

    @SFLegend:
    theres no hockey players in texas
    dallas stars doesnt count their ice sucks
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    Erwin promoted this comment Phanta was starred Phanta was unstarred
    Image of Erwin Erwin
    09/11/09

    @Phanta: Their team too.
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    Image of TheVegetarianBurgerKing TheVegetarianBurgerKing
    08/11/09

    In reply to It Was Called Pac-Man Land
    Why do I get the feeling that guy in the pac-man costume likes little boys?
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    Torgen got 99 problems but the PAXFlu ain't one promoted this comment TheVegetarianBurgerKing was starred TheVegetarianBurgerKing was unstarred
    Image of Torgen got 99 problems but the PAXFlu ain't one Torgen got 99 problems but the PAXFlu ain't one
    09/11/09

    @TheVegetarianBurgerKing: One of Chuck Palahniuk's early novels--Invisible Monsters, IIRC--claimed that it was always women in those theme park suits for that exact reason, but who knows if it's true.
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    Image of metal face eagle premium is not from So Cal metal face eagle premium is not from So Cal
    08/11/09

    In reply to It Was Called Pac-Man Land
    This definitely looks like one of those places where you'd find a ball pit with feces, a snake and broken syringes at the bottom.
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    Image of hot_heart hot_heart
    08/11/09

    In reply to It Was Called Pac-Man Land
    I don't need no theme park to get high on pills and get chased by ghosts.
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    Image of Orionsaint Orionsaint
    08/11/09

    In reply to It Was Called Pac-Man Land

    Oh for a sec I thought it was Mayor Mccheese standing there. As we all know Mayor Mccheese met his tragic end 15 years ago. When he accidentally walked into a weight watchers meeting.
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    Image of wess25 wess25
    08/11/09

    @Orionsaint: No,no,no, Mayor McCheese was arrested a few years ago for child molestation. I guess he had 30 year old meat between 12 year old buns. It was quite a pickle.
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    Image of Harmonixer Harmonixer
    09/11/09

    @wess25: Someone star this man _
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    Image of Orionsaint Orionsaint
    09/11/09

    @wess25:

    You're awesome lol!!!
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    Image of spannu spannu
    08/11/09

    In reply to It Was Called Pac-Man Land
    I'm assuming Pac-Man Land had these key components: climbable rope nets, plastic tubes/slides filled with vomit, ball pits with unspeakable objects inside, and a bizarre square consisting of 100 punching bags.
    If so, the park that's now Marine World used to have one of these before Six Flags bought it, though I can't remember what the area was called, as did many other amusement parks in the 80s and 90s.
    I don't know who decided kids need foam covered mini-waterparks with cartoon characters instead of punching bags, but they were totally wrong.
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    Image of Komrade Kayce Komrade Kayce
    08/11/09

    In reply to It Was Called Pac-Man Land
    I hate shit like that, in terms of needing to be old enough to have a memory capable of handling the situation.

    My parents used to say "But you've been to Disneyworld 3 times!" growing up, and I was like "Yeah, mom, I was 3 the first time, 6 the second time and it wasn't until I was 9 that I can actually remember most of what I did".


    I can kinda remember it at age 6 too, but 3 is a wash. Word of advice to the parents out there, if you're spending ludicrous amounts of money to take your toddler exciting places, chances are they'll have a good time, but remember absolutely none of it. SO if you're looking for a free guilt card (but I took you to disney!), wait until they're a bit older.
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    Image of Kobun Kobun
    08/11/09

    @(Zombie) Komrade Kayce: Yep, that's why it always bothers me when people try to act as though they remember a period of time despite them being fetuses or toddlers during it. Too many people forge memories from their desires, to suit their beliefs, or reassembled from old photographs.
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    Image of lavos222 lavos222
    08/11/09

    In reply to It Was Called Pac-Man Land
    Heh... That Pac-Man looks more like Mayor McCheese
    Still, I wish I could go there...
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    Image of dossantosc dossantosc
    03/13/09

    In reply to ESA President Calls For Stronger Texas Game Industry Incentives
    "ever-expanding Texas game development community" WOW!


    This is news to me! i can understand Montreal (in Canada) being a growing game development community but TEXAS?


    Montreal has one of the largest game development communities in the world and these guys are talking about TEXAS? We have EA Montreal and Ubisoft! TEXAS has.............oh ya Hi-Rez Studios...ok! lol!

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    Image of Pezdispenser Pezdispenser
    03/13/09

    @dossantosc:


    As most everyone else here has already pointed, Texas has always had a strong development community. I'm mostly just responding to remind you that Hi-Rez is based in Georgia, not Texas.

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    Image of Seiven Seiven
    02/05/09

    In reply to State of Texas Creates Video Game Day
    I am currently 4 floors above pistudios in Housto, TX.


    Pi Studios (I have a friend that works there as a tester) is known for PS2 and Wii ports of RockBand 1 and 2, Rock Band track packs, work on most of the Call of Duty titles, Wolfenstein titles, Quake titles, and more.


    Check out [pistudios.com]

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    Image of Thai Tea Thai Tea
    02/05/09

    In reply to State of Texas Creates Video Game Day
    How quickly people forget. When Governer Perry went to speak at the VGA I beleive...one of those game awards, people were all saying how he's such a conniving sob. But I didn't think so back then and don't think now. He's just trying to do his job to bring money to the Texas economy, nothing wrong with that. Creating incentives and recognizing games as something that impact the economy will attract developers to reconsider where they want to work. Austin is like the Silicon Valley of Texas...and that aint too bad.
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    Image of shouryuuken shouryuuken
    02/05/09

    @Thai Tea: dont forget dallas. id software, gearbox, formerly ensemble, 3d realms. in fact... some have already realized the tech boom hit austin and dallas and call the area "silicon prarie."
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    Image of Kobun Kobun
    02/04/09

    In reply to State of Texas Creates Video Game Day
    State of Texas Creates Murder Day: Celebrates Teaching Children to Kill
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    Image of gils0n gils0n
    02/04/09

    In reply to State of Texas Creates Video Game Day
    It's the least Texas could do for giving us Dubya :p
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    Image of shouryuuken shouryuuken
    02/05/09

    @gils0n: actually, he was born in connecticut.. so texas didnt give yall anything.
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    Image of shouryuuken shouryuuken
    02/04/09

    In reply to State of Texas Creates Video Game Day
    thats crazy i didnt know about it.. i would have been telling everyone at work yetserday that i couldnt come in due to a state holiday.
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