1981

27 years ago, around the time Scrappy fought his way from the darkness toward the light, a legend was born. Although this time I am not referring to me. I am talking about Pac-man.
Just think, the best selling coin operated game in history was derived from a night out for pizza.
The games creator, Tohru Iwatani was out with some friends for pizza when the idea struck. He took one slice and next thing you know pac-man was born.

In it's history, over $100 million worth of quarters have been dropped in a pac-man game. It took eight people 15 months to create the original Pac-Man arcade game. Four worked on the hardware, four worked on the software. And in case you have not made it to the end of this munch-a-thon there are 256 levels to chew your way through. Ask Billy Mitchell, the first known person to complete the game with a perfect score (3,333,360). He made Pac-man eat every dot, fruit, and ghost (all four ghosts were eaten with each power pellet) taking around 6 hours to do.

There was even a song about Pac-man that made its way up to number 9 on the music charts. The song was based off of Ted Nugent's "Cat Scratch Fever"

Pac-Man Fever by Jerry Buckner and Gary Garcia

I gotta pocket full of quarters,
And I'm headed to the arcade.
I don't have a lot of money
But I'm bringing everything I've made.

I've gotta callus on my finger,
And my shoulder's hurtin' too.
I'm gonna eat 'em all up,
Just as soon as they turn blue.

'Cause I've got Pac-Man Fever
Pac-Man Fever
It's driving me crazy
driving me crazy
I've got Pac-Man Fever
Pac-Man Fever
I'm going out of my mind
going out of my mind
I've got Pac-Man Fever
Pac-Man Fever
I'm going out of my mind
going out of my mind.

I've got all the patterns down,
Up until the ninth key.
I've got Speedy on my tail,
And I know it's either him or me.

So I'm heading out the back door,
And in the other side.
Gonna eat the cherries up,
And take 'em all for a ride.

Chorus

I'm gonna fake it to the left,
And move to the right,
'Cause Pokey's too slow,
And Blinky's out of sight.

Now I've got 'em on the run,
And I'm looking for the high score.
So it's once around the block,
And I'll slide back out the side door.

I'm really cookin' now,
Eating everything in sight.
All my money's gone,
So I'll be back tomorrow night.

Chorus

Now you may wonder why I am telling you the history of Pac-man on a sports blog. The truth is Adam "pacman" Jones, the cowboys corner back, has made a mockery of the once untarnished name Pac-man.

Adam "pacman" Jones, again is causing a stir getting into an argument with one of his own security guards at a hotel. He will most likely have to have a meeting about this new incident with the NFL commish. Hopefully for the sake of retro video games he will be forever stripped of the name pacman, because so far he has done nothing to deserve a name as legendary as the great yellow, pill swallowing Pac-Man.

But then again, what does Scrappy know?