SPECTRAL SABOTEURS
When retro gaming rappers Duane and BrandO did a song based on Pac-Man, half the performance was from the perspective of the ghosts, and that’s no less than they deserved. After all, what would Pac-Man be without them? He’d just be a gluttonous chap wandering around a confined space and eating everything in sight, rather like us during lockdown. The big secret is that while Pac-Man is the star of the show, from a game design perspective, the quartet of persistent persecutors that inhabit Pac-Man’s maze are arguably far more important than he is.
Unlike most videogame enemies of the time,
