Published on January 14, 2006
By
PJ_
In
Gaming
Sometimes I think I should write down my dreams, just to have a record of all the crazy stuff that goes on in my head while I'm not there. Last night I had a Pac-Man related dream. I had this white ghost-shaped balloon (not a yellow ball, for some reason), and I was running all over town trying to keep it away from these colored ghost balloons that were chasing it. I finally won by going into a store, hiding my ghost in a pile of merchandise (so I could safely approach the colored ghosts), and biting their heads off. It was kind of like cheating, because I didn't have a power pellet, but oh well.
On another note, I don't think that so-called "power-pellets" actually do give Pac-Man the ability to eat ghosts. Notice that if you eat a power pellet and then chomp on a ghost, the little ghost-eyes fly back to their home base and then come out as full-fledged ghosts again, even though the power of your pellet hasn't run out yet. I think that power-pellets actually give ghosts a disease, for which they have to go home and get treatment. Thereafter they're immune from getting the same disease again, so you need to find another pellet if you want to chomp them again. The reason power-pellets run out is the small amount of the disease causing organisms released into the environment when you break the pellet allow the ghosts to develop an immunity without becoming seriously ill, as they would if they were bitten by a carrier.