THE PAC-MAN RIDDLE AND JOKE BOOK
(Posted 2013-03-26 09:42:07 by basscomm)

Finally we come to this. The Pac-Man Riddle and Joke Book. A book that
captures what it was like to be a kid in the 80's. America's Riddle King
serves up a whole book of illustrated riddles and puns all based on Pac-Man
(more specifically, based on the words 'dot' and 'pac'). It starts out
promising enough, I mean, take a look at this cover.

Image: Pac-Man Riddle and Joke Book Cover [
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But that's as awesome as this book gets. We're "treated" to page after page
of bad Pac-Puns after another. Like, "What's Pac-Man's favorite city?
Dot-troit, remember?". I'm not actually sure why he says, "Remember?"
there. It's not like I learned that anywhere but in this book. 

And it just goes on and on like this. And lots of people on the Internet
will tell you how bad this book [
http://www.cracked.com/blog/4-geek-humor-books-by-authors-who-understand-neither/
] is. And, sure, it's bad _now_ to adults who are 30 years removed from the
source material. But what about in the 80's?

Well, I was around in the 80's, during Pac-Man's heyday, and when I got
this book back then, I didn't think it was all bad. Although, I didn't get
all of the jokes (how is a 7-year-old expected to get a Rhapsody in Blue
reference?). But I didn't think it was all that bad then. Heck, at that
age, I didn't think much was bad at all. Everything was new and amazing!
Which kind of explains how I managed to keep myself entertained with a
barely functional tape recorder for an entire summer (blank tapes were
cheap entertainment, what can I say?).

And what about America's Riddle King? Well, here's his 'self Pactrait'
(which is an extremely clumsy pun, I admit) and a mini-bio.

Image: Pac-Man Riddle and Joke Book Interior [
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But he's apparently the creator of Letterman [
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fK3fW1tv8Sw ], a cartoon that aired during
the Electric Company, so that scores him some redemption points, I guess.

Image: DOTPEN [
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