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Pac-Man As Pot Head

Posted by Zonk on from the don't-do-drugs,-kids dept.

1up.com has a look at the history of drugs in games, from the pellet-popping days of Pac-Man to the industrious sales efforts of the GTA games. From the article: "As games drew a wider audience, not to mention a wider variety of creative talents (some pretty weird stuff reportedly went on at the Atari offices in an evening), they necessarily drew on a wider spectrum of influences and inspirations...some of them chemical in nature. There have been games that were probably made on drugs -- Rez springs to mind, or the Virtual Light Machine -- and even reviewed on drugs, when A.C. Styles dosed the office coffee pot at Die Hard Game Fan."

2 of 58 comments (clear)

  1. Hello? HELLO!?!?! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    XBFNFRZ
    I am not a script

  2. Ramifications? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Games are drawing wider audiences? Could this open some eyes and increase interest in alternative (Linux, Mac) offerings?