June 17, 2007: Pacman skeleton
 

http://cellar.org/2007/pacman_skeleton.jpg

Axlrosen suggests this Boing Boing'd item, and it's surely IotD material. Practically without having to say so, this is Pac-Man's skeleton, as rendered by French artist Le Gentil Garçon. At the official website, enjoy trying to recall your high-school French while gawking at the lovely works.

no eye sockets?
http://pac-man.classicgaming.gamespy...toon/cover.gif

What a wimp.

yikes!

How come PacMan got a uvula without the lung capacity to speak?

and tastebuds without a stomach

That's a whacker to smack things trying to sneak out the back way, back into the teeth.

Not tastebuds, poison secreters.

for some reason i feel that i've seen this before. no idea where or when.

i still think ms. pacman was cooler... she outran all those ghosts AND kept her bow stylish.

yeah, arty, i think so too.....was it aliens? or hitch hikers guide?


oh...check this out

Maybe you're thinking of sketches of cartoon skeletons?

I don't buy it. Pac-man's skull should have a prominent sagittal crest (like a gorilla skull, or as on a carnivore such as a big cat). That's where the temporalis muscles (for jaw closing strength) attach.

For a critter like Pac-man, you'd expect robust musculature for those massive choppers, which this guy doesn't have. The skull depicts a beast that's all show, and no chew.

Realism, I demand realism! :P