Retro Sabotage: fair use whimsical videogame remix art

Retro Sabotage takes games we know and love and turns them into funny little stories, like this one, called What Next?

In the amusing mockumentary piece, pac-man is an anti-recession prototype designed to encourage Japanese teens to consume more. Later, where a pac-man version is a game designed by a north Korean dictator, suddenly pac-man plays itself, you have no control at all.

This is good stuff.

(many thanks, Tof!)

Comments

[G C]

That's a great site, but the description of North Korean Pac-Man is a little off. You actually control the ghosts -- the goal is to pin Pac-Man between the two ghosts, thereby killing the imperialist...

[Alice]

Huh, really? Nothing I did controlled pac-man. Maybe I was bugged.

[bob_d]

Brilliant! (Some of them, anyways; the rest are quite funny.)

You don't control Pac-man in that particular game- as GC mentions, you control the ghosts after they emerge from the central chamber. Since you control them all at once, it makes it a bit tricky.