Happy Anniversary Pac-Man and "Empire Strikes Back"

#TalkNerdytoMeLover's According to Adam

How awesome must it have been to be a nerd 30 years ago today? On May 21, 1980, the best of the six Star Wars movies, "Star Wars, Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back" was released in U.S. theaters. By that point, it was already May 22 in Japan, and a new video game was released: Pac-Man.

Seriously? "Empire Strikes Back" and "Pac-Man" in a 24-hours span. I'd like to personally take credit for this awesomeness, since I was born 4 days earlier, and clearly the world needed my existence to unleash this two-front strike of sheer unbridled awesome. 

There are going to be plenty of "Empire Strikes Back" related celebrations today, but I'm a huge fan of what Google did to celebrate "Pac-Man". If you go to Google.com today, you'll see a Pac-Man themed Google logo. If you wait about 10 seconds, or click the "Insert Coin" button, you'll hear the familiar Pac-Man theme, and you can actually play the logo!

So check it out and leave your high score in the comments. Have fun, and HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!

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Comments

[Austin's Modern World]

Adam, I am your father!

[Brian Qually]

I uh...ya... pawnd all nerdz I just got 18,746,274,659,375,347 points on google's logo so uh ya I rule ur digital worldz...;) FYI did u know there are only 255 game levels in Pac-Man and it was originally going to be called Puck_Man but the smart Japanese for saw our American stupidity and changed it....lol ;)