Admit it, it’s a dream come true. Your chance to actually live a computer game. You could buy a skateboard and attempt to rail grind between buildings, but that leads to something called ‘being dead’. Jacking cars in reality comes with an unwanted side quest in a place called ‘jail.’ Pac-Man? Where are you even going to find ghosts?

At the Plus International Design Festival, taking place October 17th - 21st at Wild Building, 93-96 Floodgate Street, Digbeth, Birmingham, B5 5SR. We’ll also supply the power pills and big maze to run about in, as a 1980s videogame classic comes alive before your very eyes.

Is it art? Who knows/cares? Is it going to be brilliant fun? No doubt about it. Pac-Man Plus gives you a host of amazing options. Maybe you want to be a ghost, and chase down the hero and make him eat his own head with a wibbly blip. Maybe you want to be Pac-Man, and feel the terror of having your destiny in a player’s hands. You can’t move on your own, Player 1 will tell you where to go. Pac-Man doesn’t think, he just does. What if Player 1 has been drinking? Your life is literally in his hands. Perhaps you want to wield the same power as you usually have in gaming, seeing the bigger picture and giving Pac-Man the information he needs to stay alive.

How is it going to work? A player dressed as Pac-Man will enter the maze, and lying in wait will be two ghosts - Blinky and Inky. Pac-Man’s movements will then be directed via a one-way headset linked to another player outside the maze (the Controller), who will be watching the action top-down on a large projection screen. The goal of the game for Pac-Man and his controller will be to collect the four power pills inside the maze and then stay alive! The high score table beckons….

Tickets are available from here.

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