Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-26094625-20150210024810

Everyone and their mother probably knows what Pac-Man is by now. I used to play it all the time when I was a kid. I loved it. But what if I told you that it has a very tragic story behind it? Well, here is that story.

Pac-Man, at one point, was a human. He had a wife, a job, a nice house, all that a man needed. But, one day after coming home from work, he came into his bedroom to find his wife in bed with another man. He got divorced and developed a drinking problem. His friends heard about the incident and invited him to the bar for a couple drinks. Him and his friends got drunk that night and Pac man drove them home.

They got into a car accident and the car burst into flames. Pac-Man was the only one that survived the accident. He ran away from the flaming car and was never caught, but the last thing he remembers is flashing police lights. He then feel into an even deeper state of depression than before. He never left the house and lived on a diet of fruit that he gets from some fruit trees in the forest.

He started to have nightmares of the spirits of his friends haunting him. He started taking Anti-Anxiety pills to help his constant fear of dying at any moment and Antidepressants to help stop his nightmares. He took them every day, but they didn't do anything. He then overdosed and fell into a coma.

A neighbor knocked on the door to make sure everything was alright and got no response. The neighbor noticed the door was open and walked inside. He look all around the house for Pac man and found him in his room on the floor. The neighbor called an ambulance and Pac-Man was taken to the hospital. Pac-Man, in game, represents his soul fighting for his life in the hospital.

The maze represents Pac man's constant feel that there is no escape in life.

The ghosts represent the nightmares of his friend's sprits haunting him. The pills represent the Anti-Anxiety medicine he took because in game, if Pac-Man gets 10,000 points, he will get an extra life, hence making him live longer. The Power Pills represent the Antidepressants because if Pac-Man eats a Power Pill, The Ghosts turn blue and Pac-Man can eat them, hence making him less afraid. The reason the ghosts come back even after being eaten represents the fact the even though Pac-Man took the Antidepressants, he still kept having the nightmares. The fruit represents his diet. The reason the ghosts flash blue and white represents the flashing police lights at the accident. If Pac-Man loses a life, his heart will stop, but a doctor will jumpstart his heart, making him live again. If Pac man loses all lives, his heart will stop and he will die.

Now most people are probably wondering "What about Ms. Pac-Man?" Well I have a theory for that too.

I think that Ms. Pac-Man takes place in an alternate universe where the roles are reversed.

In that universe, Ms. Pac-Man is the one who fell into a coma due to pill overdose when her friends died in a car accident (It explains why In Pac-Man, The Orange Ghost's name is Clyde. But, In Ms. Pac-Man, It's Sue.) and Mr. Pac-Man cheated on Ms. Pac-Man.

The cut scenes in Ms. Pac-Man represent flashbacks to when they both met.

Now for the next game, Jr. Pac-Man. I think that Jr. Pac-man is a nightmare that Mr. and Ms. Pac-Man had while in their coma. That they would have a son who would get bullied at school, take medicine to help him, overdose, and fall into a coma.

The ghosts in that game represent the bullies at school that tease him and beat him up. The reason the maze is bigger is because a child has a bigger imagination than an adult. There are many other theories I could talk about, but they're way too many to discuss. All I have to say now is that this is one of the most saddest game story I have ever read. A story that we thought was kid friendly was the story of a Man and Wife who wanted their life back and might get them, as long as you play the game.

Think about that the next time you walk into an arcade. 