I just felt like putting a short little video together tonight, so here is a quick one credit play of the obscure 1983 Bally/Midway arcade title Professor Pac-Man. Yes, I know I'm an idiot...but go ahead and rub it in anyway if you'd like. I don't mind. Synopsis: The early-to-mid 1980s -- probably thanks to the success of Trivial Pursuit, I'm guessing -- saw a spat of trivia and quiz games that tested your knowledge of various subjects. Of these, Professor Pac-Man is the most offbeat, comparatively speaking. This really isn't a trivia game in the true sense of the words, it's more of a test of your ability to recognize visual and spatial relationships, because the questions will fall into this vein. You might be shown a series of blocks and asked to pick out which shape they make when put together, you could be shown a city scene and then have to answer a question about what you saw, or you could even have to count the number the turns Pac-Man needs to use to complete a path to ...
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