<\/p>\n
Today, it's back into the world of survival horror<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\nPac-Man<\/i> was not created to be a videogame. As explained by designer Iwatani Toru, \"I don't have any particular interest in [computers]. I'm interested in creating images that communicate with people. A computer is not the only medium that uses images; I could use the movies or television or any other visual medium. It just so happens I use the computer.\" Basically, he wanted to make art, and that was just the medium he had. Pac-Man<\/i> was one of the first games to have a creative team behind it, not just a single programmer - engineers, graphic designers, composers... having those jobs as part of the games industry today can be traced back to Pac-Man<\/i>.<\/p>\nPac-Man was originally just a circle with a mouth - in fact, the original Japanese cabinet art for Puckman<\/i><\/a> portrayed him as a yellow ball with a pink mouth and green feet in rollerskates. Iwatani has said that while designing the game, they considered giving Pac eyes, but \"once we added eyes, we would want to add glasses and maybe a mustache. There would just be no end to it.\" A sphere with a chunk taken out of it wouldn't make for a very interesting Mystery Mini<\/i>, however, so Funko opted instead for something more complex.<\/p>\nInspired by Pac-Man's 25th Anniversary logo (rather than the '80s art seen on the box), this figure sees Pac standing with one orange-gloved hand on his... \"hip\" may be too strong a word, but near the area where his leg enters his body. He's giving a thumbs-up, and winking at the viewer. His eyebrows are molded, and he has a long, upturned nose, but his eyes and mouth are just painted on. He wears two red boots, though they're molded here as a single piece. The size still seems surprisingly large, closer to the \"Really Big Mystery Minis\" than the normal ones.<\/p>\n<\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/blog\/?p=24645&page=2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/funko_rvgmm1_mpmg3-300x92.jpg\" title=\"click to continue\" width=\"450\" height=\"275\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--nextpage--><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/funkfri.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"72\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/funko_rvgmm1_pm1.jpg\" title=\"Pac-Man\" width=\"275\" height=\"300\" align=right style=\"margin:10px 0px 0px 10px\">While Iwatani-san and his team were working on <i>Puckman<\/i>, Namco's engineers made a technological breakthrough: color. Previous videogames had all had single-color displays, with any \"change\" in the color coming from a cellophane overlay, like a colored gel in a stage light - shine a white light through a translucent red piece of plastic, and the light looks red. This was fine for coloring large, static sections of the screen, but useless for moving objects. However, while working on their <i>Space Invaders<\/i> knockoff <i>Galaxian<\/i>, Namco figured out how to make full-color sprites, which is why <i>Pac-Man<\/i> could be chased by different colored ghosts (they'd have been able to make the blue maze walls either way).<\/p>\n<p>Actually, he's not chased by ghosts. You may call them ghosts, and they're visually identical to ghosts, but officially they're \"monsters\" - it's right there in the instructions! Allegedly the inspiration for the game <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/funko_rvgmm1_pmg1.jpg\" title=\"Blinky (shown twice actual size)\" width=\"470\" height=\"355\" align=left style=\"margin:1px 10px 0px 0px\">came from a children's story about a creature that protected children from monsters by eating them, so \"monsters\" these are. This one is Blinky, aka \"Shadow,\" which is less of a nickname and more of a descriptor of how he moves: in Japanese, he's <i>Oikake<\/i>, \"Chaser,\" and of the four ghosts, he's the only one programmed to constantly target Pac's specific location (lacking complicated AI algorithms, each of the ghosts tries its best to get to a certain part of the screen in relation to the player), meaning he's constantly shadowing your moves.<\/p>\n<p>For something that's \"not\" a ghost, Blinky sure looks a lot like a ghost. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/funko_rvgmm1_pmg2.jpg\" title=\"better eat him fast!\" width=\"235\" height=\"175\" align=right style=\"margin:7px 10px 0px 15px\">His body is a rounded lump with a few vertical wrinkles and a wavy lower edge. He has his hands raised in a threatening pose, while his eyes and mouth are simply black paint. He comes in an identical box to Pac-Man, because that's how this line works, but it feels like Funko missed an opportunity for a chase variant: imagine opening the box, and instead of a deep red Blinky, you got a \"scared\" blue ghost instead. That'd ruin the 1\/12 ratio that all the figures have, though.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/blog\/?p=24645&page=3\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/funko_rvgmm1_mpmg3-300x92.jpg\" title=\"click to continue\" width=\"450\" height=\"275\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--nextpage--><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/funkfri.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"72\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/funko_rvgmm1_mpm1.jpg\" title=\"Ms. Pac-Man\" width=\"270\" height=\"300\" align=right style=\"margin:10px 0px 0px 10px\">The original <i>Pac-Man<\/i> came out in the midst of a fad for space shooters, because if there's one thing you can count on the game industry for, it's that it's constantly playing a gigantic game of \"follow the leader.\" Anyway, Iwatani designed his game to appeal to girls as well as boys, and it definitely did - so when it came time for a sequel, that egalitarian spirit carried over. Originally a knockoff game called <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20200529040135\/https:\/\/twitter.com\/rodneylives\/status\/913926643487518720\" target=twit>Crazy Otto<\/a>, the program was sold to Midway and Namco and made official. It was originally going to be called <i>Pac-Woman<\/i>, then, three days before the game went into production, it was renamed <i>Miss Pac-Man<\/i>, then <i>Mrs. Pac-Man<\/i> and finally <i>Ms. Pac-Man<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/funko_rvgmm1_mpm2.jpg\" title=\"(shown twice actual size)\" width=\"460\" height=\"515\" align=left style=\"margin:5px 12px 0px 0px\">Ms. Pac-Man's model is mostly the same as <a href=\"\/blog\/?p=24645\">her husband(?)'s<\/a>, a yellow circle with a mouth, but she does have some distinctive features to make her more recognizable: working on both graph paper and a Lite Brite, the designers (with input from Namco's president) added lipstick, a bow, eyes, and even a beauty mark. Early versions had a full head of hair, but that was reduced. The <i>Mystery Mini<\/i> version is more involved than the game sprite, giving her arms and legs, and a little tuft of hair on top.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/funko_rvgmm1_mpm3.jpg\" title=\"she's 100% sideboob\" width=\"165\" height=\"275\" align=right style=\"margin:0px 0px 0px 15px\">Her pose is straightforward. She's standing with one hand raised in greeting, and the other held out at her side. Her feet are separate, unlike Pac's, and she's wearing blue high heels. Those, coupled with the pink bow, seem to take inspiration from the cabinet more than the game or any modern official art. The nose is short, and all the other facial features are simply paint. She has blue eyeshadow, and the famous \"Pac-Man eyes\" - I remember hating those so much as a kid that I took a black marker to a coloring book to fill them in, not realizing it would bleed through the pages and ruin the image on the other side. Bad design made me ruin my possessions! Or maybe I was just a dumb, picky kid.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/blog\/?p=24645&page=4\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/funko_rvgmm1_mpmg3-300x92.jpg\" title=\"click to continue\" width=\"450\" height=\"275\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--nextpage--><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/funkfri.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"72\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/funko_rvgmm1_mpm1.jpg\" title=\"Ms. Pac-Man\" width=\"270\" height=\"300\" align=right style=\"margin:10px 0px 0px 10px\">Since <i>Ms. Pac-Man<\/i> was designed as an add-on kit (proving that \"third party\" existed long before <i>Transformers<\/i>), every <i>Ms. Pac-Man<\/i> arcade cabinet was really a <i>Pac-Man<\/i> machine with an extra set of computer chips plugged in. The cabinet (and thus the boxes for these <i>Mystery Minis<\/i>) was blue with pink and yellow art. <i>Ms. Pac-Man<\/i>'s mazes weren't the same as the original game's, and there was more than one layout. Plus, since the game could handle six moving objects at once, the bonus fruits bounced around the screen rather than sitting in one spot. And finally, since \"Crazy Otto's\" creators were originally trying to avoid infringing on Namco's trademarks at all, the game even has its own original sound effects.<\/p>\n<p>Though this figure is identified on the back of the box as \"Ms. Pac-Man Ghost,\" it's clearly Pinky. The orange ghost was known as <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/funko_rvgmm1_mpmg1.jpg\" title=\"(shown twice actual size)\" width=\"500\" height=\"355\" align=left style=\"margin:0px 10px 0px 0px\">Clyde in the original game and as Sue in the sequel, but Pinky is always Pinky. Except when he's (she's?) \"Speedy,\" or <i>Machibuse<\/i> (\"Ambusher\"). That name comes from the original's AI directive, which was to always head for a spot four dots in front of Pac-Man's current facing. <i>Ms. Pac-Man<\/i> changed the ghost behavior so it wasn't as predictable, because that would increase the chances of a player dying and having to insert a new quarter.<\/p>\n<p>Pinky has the same pose as <a href=\"\/blog\/?p=24645&page=2\">Blinky<\/a>, but it's not the same mold: <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/funko_rvgmm1_mpmg2.jpg\" title=\"I'm different!\" width=\"265\" height=\"160\" align=right style=\"margin:5px 0px 0px 15px\">this one has no wrinkles, and gets a button nose. The hands are now the same color as the sheet, and the style of the face is entirely different - more ornate. Pinky's mouth is open, showing a tongue and some teeth along the top, and the big cartoony eyes rest under arched eyebrows. The image on the back of the box depicts Pinky with angry eyebrows instead. And also a lighter shade of pink, rather than this vibrant magenta. It's a shame the ghosts don't have any kind of clear stand to make them hover, so they have to permanently sit on the ground.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/funko_rvgmm1_mpmg3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/funko_rvgmm1_mpmg3-300x92.jpg\" title=\"click to embiggen\" width=\"450\" height=\"275\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Posts\"><H5><i>And now, some more OAFEry:<\/i><\/H5><ul class=\"entry-meta\"><li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Science Fiction Mystery Minis - Leeloo\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2017\/05\/science-fiction-mystery-minis-leeloo\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Science Fiction Mystery Minis - Leeloo<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Walking Dead Mystery Minis: Teddy Bear Walker review\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2014\/10\/walking-dead-mystery-minis-teddy-bear-walker-review\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Walking Dead Mystery Minis: Teddy Bear Walker review<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"The biggest properties of the '80s\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2012\/11\/the-biggest-properties-of-the-80s\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">The biggest properties of the '80s<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Walking Dead Mystery Minis: Beth Greene review\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2016\/10\/walking-dead-mystery-minis-beth-greene\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Walking Dead Mystery Minis: Beth Greene review<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Godzilla Mystery Minis - Anguirus review\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2025\/02\/godzilla-mystery-minis-anguirus-review\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Godzilla Mystery Minis - Anguirus review<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, it's back into the world of survival horror. <i>And now, some more OAFEry:<\/i>Walking Dead Mystery Minis: Joe (In Memorium) review Horizon Zero Dawn Mystery Minis - Aloy review Retro Videogame Mystery Minis - Frogger Venom Mystery Minis - Venomized … <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2017\/10\/retro-videogame-mystery-minis-pac-manms-pac-man\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">→<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,250,42],"tags":[291,197],"class_list":["post-24645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-exclusive-review","category-funko","category-videos","tag-mystery-minis","tag-pac-man"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24645"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45929,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24645\/revisions\/45929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Pac-Man<\/i> was not created to be a videogame. As explained by designer Iwatani Toru, \"I don't have any particular interest in [computers]. I'm interested in creating images that communicate with people. A computer is not the only medium that uses images; I could use the movies or television or any other visual medium. It just so happens I use the computer.\" Basically, he wanted to make art, and that was just the medium he had. Pac-Man<\/i> was one of the first games to have a creative team behind it, not just a single programmer - engineers, graphic designers, composers... having those jobs as part of the games industry today can be traced back to Pac-Man<\/i>.<\/p>\n
Pac-Man was originally just a circle with a mouth - in fact, the original Japanese cabinet art for Puckman<\/i><\/a> portrayed him as a yellow ball with a pink mouth and green feet in rollerskates. Iwatani has said that while designing the game, they considered giving Pac eyes, but \"once we added eyes, we would want to add glasses and maybe a mustache. There would just be no end to it.\" A sphere with a chunk taken out of it wouldn't make for a very interesting Mystery Mini<\/i>, however, so Funko opted instead for something more complex.<\/p>\nInspired by Pac-Man's 25th Anniversary logo (rather than the '80s art seen on the box), this figure sees Pac standing with one orange-gloved hand on his... \"hip\" may be too strong a word, but near the area where his leg enters his body. He's giving a thumbs-up, and winking at the viewer. His eyebrows are molded, and he has a long, upturned nose, but his eyes and mouth are just painted on. He wears two red boots, though they're molded here as a single piece. The size still seems surprisingly large, closer to the \"Really Big Mystery Minis\" than the normal ones.<\/p>\n<\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/blog\/?p=24645&page=2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/funko_rvgmm1_mpmg3-300x92.jpg\" title=\"click to continue\" width=\"450\" height=\"275\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--nextpage--><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/funkfri.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"72\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/funko_rvgmm1_pm1.jpg\" title=\"Pac-Man\" width=\"275\" height=\"300\" align=right style=\"margin:10px 0px 0px 10px\">While Iwatani-san and his team were working on <i>Puckman<\/i>, Namco's engineers made a technological breakthrough: color. Previous videogames had all had single-color displays, with any \"change\" in the color coming from a cellophane overlay, like a colored gel in a stage light - shine a white light through a translucent red piece of plastic, and the light looks red. This was fine for coloring large, static sections of the screen, but useless for moving objects. However, while working on their <i>Space Invaders<\/i> knockoff <i>Galaxian<\/i>, Namco figured out how to make full-color sprites, which is why <i>Pac-Man<\/i> could be chased by different colored ghosts (they'd have been able to make the blue maze walls either way).<\/p>\n<p>Actually, he's not chased by ghosts. You may call them ghosts, and they're visually identical to ghosts, but officially they're \"monsters\" - it's right there in the instructions! Allegedly the inspiration for the game <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/funko_rvgmm1_pmg1.jpg\" title=\"Blinky (shown twice actual size)\" width=\"470\" height=\"355\" align=left style=\"margin:1px 10px 0px 0px\">came from a children's story about a creature that protected children from monsters by eating them, so \"monsters\" these are. This one is Blinky, aka \"Shadow,\" which is less of a nickname and more of a descriptor of how he moves: in Japanese, he's <i>Oikake<\/i>, \"Chaser,\" and of the four ghosts, he's the only one programmed to constantly target Pac's specific location (lacking complicated AI algorithms, each of the ghosts tries its best to get to a certain part of the screen in relation to the player), meaning he's constantly shadowing your moves.<\/p>\n<p>For something that's \"not\" a ghost, Blinky sure looks a lot like a ghost. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/funko_rvgmm1_pmg2.jpg\" title=\"better eat him fast!\" width=\"235\" height=\"175\" align=right style=\"margin:7px 10px 0px 15px\">His body is a rounded lump with a few vertical wrinkles and a wavy lower edge. He has his hands raised in a threatening pose, while his eyes and mouth are simply black paint. He comes in an identical box to Pac-Man, because that's how this line works, but it feels like Funko missed an opportunity for a chase variant: imagine opening the box, and instead of a deep red Blinky, you got a \"scared\" blue ghost instead. That'd ruin the 1\/12 ratio that all the figures have, though.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/blog\/?p=24645&page=3\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/funko_rvgmm1_mpmg3-300x92.jpg\" title=\"click to continue\" width=\"450\" height=\"275\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--nextpage--><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/funkfri.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"72\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/funko_rvgmm1_mpm1.jpg\" title=\"Ms. Pac-Man\" width=\"270\" height=\"300\" align=right style=\"margin:10px 0px 0px 10px\">The original <i>Pac-Man<\/i> came out in the midst of a fad for space shooters, because if there's one thing you can count on the game industry for, it's that it's constantly playing a gigantic game of \"follow the leader.\" Anyway, Iwatani designed his game to appeal to girls as well as boys, and it definitely did - so when it came time for a sequel, that egalitarian spirit carried over. Originally a knockoff game called <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20200529040135\/https:\/\/twitter.com\/rodneylives\/status\/913926643487518720\" target=twit>Crazy Otto<\/a>, the program was sold to Midway and Namco and made official. It was originally going to be called <i>Pac-Woman<\/i>, then, three days before the game went into production, it was renamed <i>Miss Pac-Man<\/i>, then <i>Mrs. Pac-Man<\/i> and finally <i>Ms. Pac-Man<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/funko_rvgmm1_mpm2.jpg\" title=\"(shown twice actual size)\" width=\"460\" height=\"515\" align=left style=\"margin:5px 12px 0px 0px\">Ms. Pac-Man's model is mostly the same as <a href=\"\/blog\/?p=24645\">her husband(?)'s<\/a>, a yellow circle with a mouth, but she does have some distinctive features to make her more recognizable: working on both graph paper and a Lite Brite, the designers (with input from Namco's president) added lipstick, a bow, eyes, and even a beauty mark. Early versions had a full head of hair, but that was reduced. The <i>Mystery Mini<\/i> version is more involved than the game sprite, giving her arms and legs, and a little tuft of hair on top.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/funko_rvgmm1_mpm3.jpg\" title=\"she's 100% sideboob\" width=\"165\" height=\"275\" align=right style=\"margin:0px 0px 0px 15px\">Her pose is straightforward. She's standing with one hand raised in greeting, and the other held out at her side. Her feet are separate, unlike Pac's, and she's wearing blue high heels. Those, coupled with the pink bow, seem to take inspiration from the cabinet more than the game or any modern official art. The nose is short, and all the other facial features are simply paint. She has blue eyeshadow, and the famous \"Pac-Man eyes\" - I remember hating those so much as a kid that I took a black marker to a coloring book to fill them in, not realizing it would bleed through the pages and ruin the image on the other side. Bad design made me ruin my possessions! Or maybe I was just a dumb, picky kid.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/blog\/?p=24645&page=4\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/funko_rvgmm1_mpmg3-300x92.jpg\" title=\"click to continue\" width=\"450\" height=\"275\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--nextpage--><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/funkfri.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"72\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/funko_rvgmm1_mpm1.jpg\" title=\"Ms. Pac-Man\" width=\"270\" height=\"300\" align=right style=\"margin:10px 0px 0px 10px\">Since <i>Ms. Pac-Man<\/i> was designed as an add-on kit (proving that \"third party\" existed long before <i>Transformers<\/i>), every <i>Ms. Pac-Man<\/i> arcade cabinet was really a <i>Pac-Man<\/i> machine with an extra set of computer chips plugged in. The cabinet (and thus the boxes for these <i>Mystery Minis<\/i>) was blue with pink and yellow art. <i>Ms. Pac-Man<\/i>'s mazes weren't the same as the original game's, and there was more than one layout. Plus, since the game could handle six moving objects at once, the bonus fruits bounced around the screen rather than sitting in one spot. And finally, since \"Crazy Otto's\" creators were originally trying to avoid infringing on Namco's trademarks at all, the game even has its own original sound effects.<\/p>\n<p>Though this figure is identified on the back of the box as \"Ms. Pac-Man Ghost,\" it's clearly Pinky. The orange ghost was known as <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/funko_rvgmm1_mpmg1.jpg\" title=\"(shown twice actual size)\" width=\"500\" height=\"355\" align=left style=\"margin:0px 10px 0px 0px\">Clyde in the original game and as Sue in the sequel, but Pinky is always Pinky. Except when he's (she's?) \"Speedy,\" or <i>Machibuse<\/i> (\"Ambusher\"). That name comes from the original's AI directive, which was to always head for a spot four dots in front of Pac-Man's current facing. <i>Ms. Pac-Man<\/i> changed the ghost behavior so it wasn't as predictable, because that would increase the chances of a player dying and having to insert a new quarter.<\/p>\n<p>Pinky has the same pose as <a href=\"\/blog\/?p=24645&page=2\">Blinky<\/a>, but it's not the same mold: <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/funko_rvgmm1_mpmg2.jpg\" title=\"I'm different!\" width=\"265\" height=\"160\" align=right style=\"margin:5px 0px 0px 15px\">this one has no wrinkles, and gets a button nose. The hands are now the same color as the sheet, and the style of the face is entirely different - more ornate. Pinky's mouth is open, showing a tongue and some teeth along the top, and the big cartoony eyes rest under arched eyebrows. The image on the back of the box depicts Pinky with angry eyebrows instead. And also a lighter shade of pink, rather than this vibrant magenta. It's a shame the ghosts don't have any kind of clear stand to make them hover, so they have to permanently sit on the ground.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/funko_rvgmm1_mpmg3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/funko_rvgmm1_mpmg3-300x92.jpg\" title=\"click to embiggen\" width=\"450\" height=\"275\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Posts\"><H5><i>And now, some more OAFEry:<\/i><\/H5><ul class=\"entry-meta\"><li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Science Fiction Mystery Minis - Leeloo\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2017\/05\/science-fiction-mystery-minis-leeloo\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Science Fiction Mystery Minis - Leeloo<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Walking Dead Mystery Minis: Teddy Bear Walker review\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2014\/10\/walking-dead-mystery-minis-teddy-bear-walker-review\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Walking Dead Mystery Minis: Teddy Bear Walker review<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"The biggest properties of the '80s\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2012\/11\/the-biggest-properties-of-the-80s\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">The biggest properties of the '80s<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Walking Dead Mystery Minis: Beth Greene review\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2016\/10\/walking-dead-mystery-minis-beth-greene\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Walking Dead Mystery Minis: Beth Greene review<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Godzilla Mystery Minis - Anguirus review\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2025\/02\/godzilla-mystery-minis-anguirus-review\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Godzilla Mystery Minis - Anguirus review<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, it's back into the world of survival horror. <i>And now, some more OAFEry:<\/i>Walking Dead Mystery Minis: Joe (In Memorium) review Horizon Zero Dawn Mystery Minis - Aloy review Retro Videogame Mystery Minis - Frogger Venom Mystery Minis - Venomized … <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2017\/10\/retro-videogame-mystery-minis-pac-manms-pac-man\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">→<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,250,42],"tags":[291,197],"class_list":["post-24645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-exclusive-review","category-funko","category-videos","tag-mystery-minis","tag-pac-man"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24645"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45929,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24645\/revisions\/45929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Inspired by Pac-Man's 25th Anniversary logo (rather than the '80s art seen on the box), this figure sees Pac standing with one orange-gloved hand on his... \"hip\" may be too strong a word, but near the area where his leg enters his body. He's giving a thumbs-up, and winking at the viewer. His eyebrows are molded, and he has a long, upturned nose, but his eyes and mouth are just painted on. He wears two red boots, though they're molded here as a single piece. The size still seems surprisingly large, closer to the \"Really Big Mystery Minis\" than the normal ones.<\/p>\n
![](\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/funkfri.jpg\")
<\/p>\n<\/p>\n![](\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/funko_rvgmm1_mpm4.jpg\" "\\"kinky!\\"")
<\/p>\n![](\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/funko_rvgmm1_pm1.jpg\" "\\"Pac-Man\\"")
Pac-Man<\/i> was not created to be a videogame. As explained by designer Iwatani Toru, \"I don't have any particular interest in [computers]. I'm interested in creating images that communicate with people. A computer is not the only medium that uses images; I could use the movies or television or any other visual medium. It just so happens I use the computer.\" Basically, he wanted to make art, and that was just the medium he had. Pac-Man<\/i> was one of the first games to have a creative team behind it, not just a single programmer - engineers, graphic designers, composers... having those jobs as part of the games industry today can be traced back to Pac-Man<\/i>.<\/p>\n![](\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/funko_rvgmm1_pm2.jpg\" "\\"(shown")
Pac-Man was originally just a circle with a mouth - in fact, ![](\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/funko_rvgmm1_pm3.jpg\" "\\"''I'm")
Inspired by Pac-Man's 25th Anniversary logo (rather than the '80s art seen on the box), this figure sees Pac standing with one orange-gloved hand on his... \"hip\" may be too strong a word, but near the area where his leg enters his body. He's giving a thumbs-up, and winking at the viewer. His eyebrows are molded, and he has a long, upturned nose, but his eyes and mouth are just painted on. He wears two red boots, though they're molded here as a single piece. The size still seems surprisingly large, closer to the \"Really Big Mystery Minis\" than the normal ones.<\/p>\n