I'll bet there were some people 30 years ago who took this as a sign that we were coming to the end times. (Maybe they were right?) On March 27, 1982 heartland rockers Jerry Buckner and Gary Garcia hit the Billboard top ten with their paean to the world's most popular video game. CBS Records realized they were on to something, and gave them a budget and one month to record an entire full-length album of similarly-themed tunes. If you are exactly 41-years-old, you might remember such titles as "Froggy's Lament" or "Doin' the Donkey Kong." I like it in the beginning of the clip above, from [...]

"The blue ghost is nicknamed Inky, and remains inside the ghost house for a short time on the first level, not joining the chase until Pac-Man has managed to consume at least 30 of the dots. His English personality description is bashful, while in Japanese he is referred to as 気紛れ, kimagure, or 'whimsical.' Inky is difficult to predict, because he is the only one of the ghosts that uses a factor other than Pac-Man’s position/orientation when determining his target tile." —Games is maths!

It's a very special day today: Pac-Man, perhaps the world's most popular arcade game, turns 30 years old. We checked in on IM with Pac-Man himself to see how he was celebrating the big event.

BALK: Hey, buddy, happy birthday. dotmuncher80: Dude, don't even. I've spent all morning trying to forget about it.