Screenshot of the day: Pac-Man

Its sequel, Ms. Pac-Man, was the better game, but this screen remains to me the iconic image of the Golden Age of arcade games. In its bright plain colors, its symmetry, its self-contained universe, it is perfect. It speaks to us across three and a half decades like an indelible piece of pop art. Nothing in human culture before 1980 looked like this. Hats off to Mr. Toru Iwatani, who in his way changed the world.