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This Pac-Man chair named the Pac Seat would look perfect in my living room. I’m a sucker for retro Pac-Man stuff. This seat, designed by Bruno Marques is great. I love the clean and simple design. Plus, when you are seated, it looks like Pac-Man is eating you.

Anyone can sit on this chair safely, unless you are a ghost. If you are a ghost, this Pac-Man seat will eat you and then probably belch. Also, I don’t advise sitting on one if you are a cherry, strawberry, orange, apple, melon, bell, key or a Galaxian spaceship.

Bruno designed this chair for kids, but let’s be honest, this is for us geeks who are old enough to have played the game back in the 80′s. Give me some ghost tables now, and I would be completely happy.

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Not Pacman is the Pac-Man I want to play right now. Sadly, this wicked, mind-twisting, gravity-controlled version of Pac-Man is available only for Windows, OS X and Linux. Fortunately, the source code is available, so perhaps someone will port to iOS/Android/Windows Phone as soon as possible. [Stabyourself via Crackajack via Animal NY] More »

One of my absolute favorite arcade games to play on a lazy Sunday has got to be Namco Bandai’s Pac-Man Championship Edition DX. The game is absolutely amazing and adds a number of new, incredible game modes to the classic Pac-Man formula. The game has been released on console and mobile, but has yet to make its way to the PC. Namco Bandai has finally announced Pac-Man Championship Edition DX is now available on the Windows 8 platform through the Windows Store.

“We’re very excited that PAC-MAN Championship Edition DX is available on Windows 8,” says Carlson Choi, Vice President of Marketing at NAMCO BANDAI Games America Inc. “The PC has always been a popular gaming platform, combine that fact with the capabilities of Windows 8 and you get a great system for NAMCO BANDAI to deliver its most popular titles to an enthusiastic audience.”

Pac-Man Championship Edition DX includes a number of modes like Score Attack, Time Trials and Ghost Combo and will set you back $10. If you have a classic joystick as a part of your PC set up, then you owe it to yourself to pick up this game. If not, well, we still encourage you to play it as it will have you thinking of Pac-Man in a completely different way. Kind of like how Wicked made people actually care about the Wicked Witch of the West.

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A while back, I found some lamps that were pretty reminiscent of the ghosts from Pac-Man. However, they weren’t officially-licensed, and they looked really cheaply made. On the other hand, these new Pac-Man lamps are totally official, plus they look like they’re well built and have a few other tricks up their sleeves. Ghosts do have sleeves, don’t they?

These ghosts have one big feature absent from the cheaper clones from last year. Each official Pac-Man ghost lamp includes a wireless remote control, which lets you set your ghost to one of sixteen colors. Want Blinky red? Check. Inky cyan? Yap. Pinky pink? Absolutely? Clyde orange? Indeed. Blue ghost blue? Of course. You can even make up new ghost colors and names. Personally, I like the idea of a purple ghost named “Barney”.

You can also set the lamps to blink, flash, dim, fade and strobe modes if you like ghosts at your raves. The ghosts also look like they’re floating above the surface of your desk for added effect.

The Pac-Man ghost lamp is available now over at Firebox for about $56(USD), and if you order now, you should be able to get one in hand in time for Christmas gift-giving.

Now all we need is a Pac-Man lamp to go with, and we’ll be all set.

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