Most guys my age remember Zork, one of the original computer adventure games. It was all text based, you actually had to visualize what was going on… you used a little thing called your imagination.

Then came Pong…and video games were born. Soon that little dot you were smacking back and forth across the screen was replaced with bigger and better games. But what to do with all those left over Pong dots? Well, feed them to Pac-Man of course, taking another major step in the evolution of video games. (Ok, I am taking a a bit of creative license here.)

But haven’t we all wondered what would have happened if there was no Pong? What if we got stuck in the realm of text based gaming? Have you ever imagined what Pac-Man would have been like in such an alternate reality?

Well wonder no more.

Pac-Txt is the game that Pac-Man would have been, if it had been done in the age of the Great Underground Empire. It starts out;

You awaken in a large complex, slightly disoriented. Glowing dots hover mouth level near you in every direction. Off in the distance you hear the faint howling of what you can only imagine must be some sort of ghost or several ghosts.

From there you basically just move around the maze, eating the dots and avoiding the ghosts…

What, you thought there was more to it than that? It’s still just Pac-Man ya know.