The official 30th anniversary Pacman site,, was unavailable for comment at press time (presumably it was down from heavy load). There's 9,990,000 results for Pacman (no hyphen), but some of those headlines refer to Adam "Pacman" Jones (also variously Pac-Man Jones), a football player who played for current University of Michigan coach Rich Rodriguez while he was at West Virginia. Google has 7,260,000 results for the hyphenated name. Wikipedia refers to it consistently throughout as Pac-Man. Boing Boing has contemporary coverage of the event. University of Michigan students do a real live Pacman prank on Central Campus in 2007, with a monster (Blinky?) chasing Pac-Man through Angell Hall and the UGLI. The official web site lists summer hours, noon to 7 p.m. James Dickson did a review of the video game archive back in May. The video game library is carefully enough cataloged that you can find 8 versions of the game for several systems. Play classic home arcade versions of Pac-Man on original equipment, including a Pacman for the Atari 2600 published in 1981. University of Michigan Video Game archives I did an exhaustive roundup of pinball arcades in town back in October, after the building across the street from the current Pinball Pete's - a former Campus Pinball location - burned in a fire. Do they have the original Pac-Man, or Ms. Pinball Pete's has Pacman games in the basement on South University Avenue. If you're looking for the real thing on vintage hardware, not some modern web-based imitation, here are some suggestions for places to go in Ann Arbor.
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