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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Travel
Robyn Vinter North of England correspondent

Pac-Man Live: filching fruit and fleeing ghosts in human-sized video game

People playing through the maze of the Pac-Man Live experience
The Pac-Man Live experience at the Arcade Arena in Manchester. Photograph: Christopher Thomond/The Guardian

“There’s no need to look so nervous,” says a beaming man in a radiant yellow suit, inside what is essentially a darkened warehouse.

Perhaps my game face is betraying my bewilderment. I’m only loosely familiar with the concept of Pac-Man, having played it a handful of times. There is something about being relentlessly pursued around an inescapable maze that I’ve always found quite stressful and I am fearing that the real-life experience will be that but on steroids.

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