Pac-Man follies

I know this isn't family-related, and I should set up a separate blog for this, but I found the following two items strange and amusing. For the uninitiated (can there be any such?), Pac-Man was THE game of 1980, and the first hint to the west that people in Japan were completely unhinged: you are a happy face that eats dots and is chased by ghosts, which you can eat if you eat one of the special "energy dots" in the corners of the maze, whereupon the ghosts turn blue for a short while. But be careful, because when they start flashing, they're ready to turn on you again. Periodically a fruit of some kind (usually a cherry) appears for a time in the middle of the screen and you get bonus points for eating it. Strange but (so we thought at the time) completely entrancing. Anyway, apparently some of those people who encountered it at the time were permanently marked by it, and it has influenced their creative endeavours thereafter. First, a clever shift of perspective from Pac Man - the Movie:



Or, from a less ghost-centric viewpoint: