The game, Pac-Man, seems perfectly innocent at first glance: A yellow blob, crawling around the screen and gobbling up dots. But did you ever think to yourself: What are the dots? Why does Pac-Man need so many? Who IS Pac-Man? All shall be revealed in this thesis:
I believe Pac-Man is the tale of a drug addict, and his quest to consume as many hallucinogenic pills as possible. Once he has ingested all the pills in an area, that represents his "clearing out" the current maze of alleyways and the dealers that populate them, and he is forced to move on. The "ghosts" he see are merely hallucinations brought on by the drugs, and if they were to catch him that would represent a "bad trip" (have you ever noticed how he turns himself INSIDE OUT when he's caught? It looks perfectly innocent at first glance, but could you imagine that happening to a human? That to me is the base definition of a bad trip). On the other hand, if he were to get one of the few "super pills" (representatives of high-quality drugs, and the difficulty of obtaining such materials) that would represent a very GOOD trip, and he would be able to "overcome" his fears.
This is all merely a theory, but I thought I'd present my evidence to you all and make it available for discussion. Please feel free to use this thread as a means to discuss your own similar theories about the unhealthy creature we know as "Pac-Man".
I believe Pac-Man is the tale of a drug addict, and his quest to consume as many hallucinogenic pills as possible. Once he has ingested all the pills in an area, that represents his "clearing out" the current maze of alleyways and the dealers that populate them, and he is forced to move on. The "ghosts" he see are merely hallucinations brought on by the drugs, and if they were to catch him that would represent a "bad trip" (have you ever noticed how he turns himself INSIDE OUT when he's caught? It looks perfectly innocent at first glance, but could you imagine that happening to a human? That to me is the base definition of a bad trip). On the other hand, if he were to get one of the few "super pills" (representatives of high-quality drugs, and the difficulty of obtaining such materials) that would represent a very GOOD trip, and he would be able to "overcome" his fears.
This is all merely a theory, but I thought I'd present my evidence to you all and make it available for discussion. Please feel free to use this thread as a means to discuss your own similar theories about the unhealthy creature we know as "Pac-Man".