Pac-Man and the proliferation of Viagra
In the cracked.com article, “5 Creepy Ways Video Games Are Trying to Get You Addicted,” David Wong explores the ways that video games keep gamers pressing the button. It really is quite creepy. One thing that he says is that “your brain treats items and goods in the video game world as if they are real.”
Combine that with the Michigan State University study that showed video games “create an unhealthy eating lifestyle” and you have the perfect fire storm for the greatest conspiracy of all time – Pac-Man was invented to sell Viagra.
In case you are too young to remember Pac-Man, the main character is a circle with a pie piece cut out. The circle eats pellets and special power up pellets allow Pac-Man to eat the ghosts. In the Atari 2600 version, the one that sounded like this as far as I remember...
Combine that with the Michigan State University study that showed video games “create an unhealthy eating lifestyle” and you have the perfect fire storm for the greatest conspiracy of all time – Pac-Man was invented to sell Viagra.
In case you are too young to remember Pac-Man, the main character is a circle with a pie piece cut out. The circle eats pellets and special power up pellets allow Pac-Man to eat the ghosts. In the Atari 2600 version, the one that sounded like this as far as I remember...
...these power up pellets were blue. The power ups were also blue in some Ms. Pac-Man screens.
While the inventor of the game Toru Iwatani says that the game was meant to get girls to play, female players were really the bonus in this conspiracy to create a demand for a drug that made it easier to conquer the ghosts of a man’s impotency.
The blue pellets became real for millions of Americans as those who played Pac-Man became accustomed to swallowing little blue pills. When Viagra was finally released to America, an entire, now older, generation was ready to accept a blue pellet that increased potency.
While the inventor of the game Toru Iwatani says that the game was meant to get girls to play, female players were really the bonus in this conspiracy to create a demand for a drug that made it easier to conquer the ghosts of a man’s impotency.
The blue pellets became real for millions of Americans as those who played Pac-Man became accustomed to swallowing little blue pills. When Viagra was finally released to America, an entire, now older, generation was ready to accept a blue pellet that increased potency.