Pac-Man, that cultural icon from the 80's, turned 25 this month. If, like me, you're a child of the 80's, than chances are you spent a good portion of your free time in one of the many arcades in your home town. I grew up playing Gorf, Commando, Tempest, Donkey Kong, Galaga , and of course, Pac-Man when I should have been pursuing more scholarly or athletic pursuits. It's amazing how fast time goes by. It doesn't seem that long ago I was wasting my allowance at the arcade next to the movie theater, desperately trying to finish Dragon's Lair, or rescue my wayward spaceman Major Havoc (which was my favorite game). Now I look around and I find that the arcades are all gone, replaced by Subway's and nail salons. My future kid will never have the chance to ride his/her skateboard to the local arcade and blow the $5 meant for lunch money on an old-school arcade machine in hopes of gaining temporary fame as the holder of the high score on Tron, or just for the chance to enter in those obligatory initials 'FUK' on Dig-Dug. Ingrained so deeply into my psyche are the arcade games from my past that I built my own free-standing arcade machine (using X-Arcade as my controller) and have managed to collect thousands of MAME games.

For your enjoyment, right-click on these Pac-Man games from the past and relive the glory days of your youth:

Jr. Pac-Man
Ms. Pac-Man
Pac-Mania
Pac-Man Plus

To play, visit either Mame.net and download their latest version of Mame, or MacMame for the Macintosh.