The new face of Pac-Man

I got the shock of my life earlier today when I searched for Pac-Man on the Internet. The top three results were okay: All about the video game Pac-Man—past, present and future. The succeeding results, however, were, as I said, a shock.

How true is it that our video game hero is slowly being wiped out of existence by a new hero in the guise of Filipino boxer Manny Pacquiao?

I am a Filipino and I know I should be proud that a hometown hero has entered the world spotlight. But my video gamer persona—the one who played the game thousands of times on a table-type arcade machine in his grandmother’s basement—is crying foul over the sudden shift of the name Pac-Man to mean anything but a ghost-chomping yellow dot.