Pac Man Trivia Question

[dsullo]

Someone asked me this trivia question. I have no clue what the answer is, so I throw it out to the group. I would give a small prize to the first right answer, but like I said I have no idea what the right answer is.

Here's a trivia question for your, going back before
the days of Nintendo, back to the grand daddy of video
games (well...not Pong...but back pretty far). What
were names of the ORIGINAL 4 ghosts in Pac Man? And
I'm not talking about their well known nicknames:
Blinky, Pinky, Inky, and Clyde.

[Tempest]

You mean Oikake, Machibuse, Kimagure, and Otoboke?

Tempest

[dsullo]

Not that I doubt you temptest. Can anyone confirm?

[NE146]

yep. (Thanks to Liquid Sky and Eduardo Mello for the translations) :)

ghost = Name / Nickname
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Red Ghost = Oikake / "Akabei"
oikake-ru = to run down/to pursue/to chase down

Pink Ghost = Machibuse / "Pinky"
achibuse = performing an ambush

Blue Ghost = Kimagure / "Guzuta"
kimagure = fickle/moody/uneven temper

Orange Ghost = Otoboke / "Guzuta"
Otoboke - Pretending ignorance (nick Guzuta - someone who lags behind)

I think the translations describe each particular ghost's behaviour pretty well don't you? :) Funny thing is, growing up all the machines I ever saw had the jap names. I never saw an "Inky, Blinky, Pinky, and Clyde" machine until much later in my life...

[Raccoon Lad]

S'more trivia: Can U name the games these come from?
http://raccoonlad.topcities.com/video/pac.gif
http://raccoonlad.topcities.com/video/pak.gif

[Alex Kidd]

What is up with Pac-Man and the dicknose???

To me Pac-Man is just hungry smiley face. NO nose.

I remember the cartoon/kids books in the 80's and at least in those he had a little stub nose, just enough to not make him look too fucked up with a missing piece of normal anatomy, but this dicknose??? and it's usually on Namco stuff, so it's not just some screwy artist, its the way Namco wants him percieved... I don't like it. It's always turned up too, like he's some high class asshole.
I'm just glad they've kept the "pac-man" eyes... I always found it funny that Pac-Man's eyes were shaped like Pac-Mans.

Man... I didn't realize I was so passionate over Pac-Man...

Alex Kidd

[GENESISNES]

Pac-land?

and this isnt trivia, but who voiced pacman in the christmas specail?
Cheez-o-rama.