The beauty of Retro games

Video games have come a long way since 1950 when the first video game was created, the famous 'Bertie the Brain', a huge computer with vacuum tubes that played the game of tic tac toe.

It was in the 70s and 80s when retro games began to become popular. First, lest talk about Space Invaders, an iconic game that was released in 1978, one of the simplest games whose objective was to destroy the invading aliens with a small spaceship. and shoot them before they reach you. It was a game with a simple premise but it went around the world. But its success was nothing compared to the game that was released only 2 years later, the mega classic and famous: Pacman.

Pacman became not only one of the iconic games of all time, but a worldwide phenomenon. The simplicity of the game in which we control little Pacman, a yellow circle that is missing a sector, gives the impression that it has a mouth. The objective of the game is to eat all the dots that are called “pac-dots”, fruits and other objects that appear during the game, before the ghosts catch Pacman. To avoid this, you can eat the Power pellets that are in the four corners of the screen, that will give Pacman a power to eat the ghosts, but for a limited time. The most revolutionary thing that this game proposed is that it had a corridor on the sides of the screen that allowed the character to travel from one side to the other and thus avoid the ghosts. The phenomenon still persists to this day, since tournaments and games are still held where championships are held to see who is the greatest champion of the video game.

Curious fact:

Did you know that the ghosts that haunt Pacman have names?

Red ghost is called Blinky

Pink ghost, her name is Pinky

Cyan ghost is called Iky

Orange ghost, his name is Clyde

Have you played Pacman?, What do you think about it?