Fellow players,
It's finally happened. Pac-Man has been murdered. No, this isn't even comparable to the time Namco/Bandai molested the yellow fellow with the release of Namco Museum Remix. Nay, this is far worse. And I have hard evidence of the murder...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3A8LqPu6ts
He's been molded into something he's not. Yes, Pac-Man's starred in some other party games and cash ins- but nothing withstands this monstrosity. Pac-Man has lost his original appeal, and Namco/Bandai has done the inevitable- make him a "family fun" character. Pac-Man was the icon of hardcore, arcade gaming- a matter of memorizing patterns on boards and of course a bit of platforming here and there with the PacMan World series.
Discuss. The funeral is sometime this fall, but the murderers have not yet announced the exact date they will bury him to rest with the other long-lost gods of the gaming world.