He even wrote a song about Pac-Man with his comedy synth-punk band, Worm Quartet. Later, as an adult,, he collected Pac-Man memorabilia and used his training as a software programmer to build a game called Pac-Kombat (a two-player version of Mortal Kombat, with Pac-Man characters). But it stuck with me somehow.”Īs a kid, Crist doodled his own Pac-Men in art class-though they were green, to match the Pizza Hut cabinet’s broken screen-and poured tens of thousands of quarters into arcades. “I had no idea what I was doing with the ghosts. “I was terrible at the game,” he recalls. Crist slipped a quarter into the machine, and played Pac-Man for the very first time. It was 1981, and a new video game was getting a lot of buzz. When Tim Crist was five years old, he walked into a Pizza Hut in Potsdam, New York, and his life changed forever.
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