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Maurice Molyneaux (8bit Maurice) @mauricemolyneaux.com · 53m

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Screenshot of Bluesky post about Pac-Man's Arcade Corner and Jeff Buccellato's producing it.

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Maurice Molyneaux (8bit Maurice) @mauricemolyneaux.com · 7h

Thanks. He was the guy who produced Pac-Man's Arcade Corner for me.

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Maurice Molyneaux (8bit Maurice) @mauricemolyneaux.com · 8h

Damn, I'm angry. Just found out we lost one of "my guys" from my Namco days. He was the first producer I hired, and he gave me the best compliment of my career. Alas, B00tch, we hardly knew ye. 😡😢 @bootch.bsky.social

Maurice Molyneaux & Jeff "Bootch" Buccellato at the Portland Retro Gaming Expo, Oct. 5, 2013.

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Maurice Molyneaux (8bit Maurice) @mauricemolyneaux.com · 27/09/2026

At Erh Hanks in Capitol Reef National Park on Sept 9.

Maurice and Chip the plush pup at the base of Erh Hanks in Capitol Reef National Park.

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Maurice Molyneaux (8bit Maurice) @mauricemolyneaux.com · 27/09/2026

At the New Mexico Museum of Space History, Alamogordo, a few weeks back.

Infrared thermography photo of Maurice making an Vulcan salute.

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Maurice Molyneaux (8bit Maurice) @mauricemolyneaux.com · 24/09/2026

Ran across this frame-grab from a video I shot in Auckland 24 years ago this month. The image on the right is how the Moon looked just above the horizon there, and the left image is rotated to how it appeared back home in California. It was something I hadn't even considered before going there.

Comparison video frame of how the Moon appears just above the horizon in San Francisco and in Auckland, New Zealand.

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Maurice Molyneaux (8bit Maurice) @mauricemolyneaux.com · 22/09/2026

Two changes made to the code when we started doing our own mazes for Pac-Man + Tournaments were: 1. add behavior for the ghosts to reverse direction if they hit a dead-end, and 2. add "one-way" tiles that prevented the ghosts from going into passages so we could build "safe spots" like in the OG.

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Maurice Molyneaux (8bit Maurice) @mauricemolyneaux.com · 22/09/2026

The lower center of the brighter one has the same issue. There are vertical paths that are offset by one grid tile. I marked the problem on the left. I'd have had my guys fix the path as on the right.

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Maurice Molyneaux (8bit Maurice) @mauricemolyneaux.com · 22/09/2026

Ahh, because that maze I screenshotted goes against the maze design rules I enforced at Namco in that it has turns that are one grid square apart, which are really difficult to navigate, even with a joystick.

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Maurice Molyneaux (8bit Maurice) @mauricemolyneaux.com · 22/09/2026

Nope. No Beryllium Spheres to be found. And still nothing with which to fashion a rudimentary lathe…

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Maurice Molyneaux (8bit Maurice) @mauricemolyneaux.com · 22/09/2026

Pretty nice. A blast from the past to be sure. I assume you created those new mazes? Because they do not look familiar.

Pac-Man Plus mobile version recreated and enhanced.

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Maurice Molyneaux (8bit Maurice) @mauricemolyneaux.com · 17/09/2026

JASON NESMITH: It's a rock! It doesn't have any vulnerable spots! GUY FLEEGMAN: I know! You construct a weapon. Look around you. Can you form some sort of rudimentary lathe? Yes, we were there.

Chip the Plush Pup in Goblin Valley State Park, Utah.

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Maurice Molyneaux (8bit Maurice) @mauricemolyneaux.com · 16/09/2026

A few phone photos I took of the original ≈3 ft U.S.S. Enterprise model on display at the Roddenberry exhibit at #STLV2026.

Original ≈3 ft USS Enterprise model on display at the Roddenberry exhibit at STLV 2026. Fore.

Original ≈3 ft USS Enterprise model on display at the Roddenberry exhibit at STLV 2026. Aft.

Original ≈3 ft USS Enterprise model on display at the Roddenberry exhibit at STLV 2026. ¾ angle from forward port.

Original ≈3 ft USS Enterprise model on display at the Roddenberry exhibit at STLV 2026. Port side.

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Maurice Molyneaux (8bit Maurice) @mauricemolyneaux.com · 13/09/2026

Adventures in Arches National Park, Sept. 8. Chip joined me on most of the hikes but rode papoose-style on my backpack.

Chip the plush pup held atop Maurice's head at Elegant Arch in Arches National Park.

Chip the plush pup posed before Landscape Arch in Arches National Park.

Chip the plush pup with a bottle of water at the South Window arch in Arches National Park.

Maurice stands beneath the Double Arch in Arches National Park.

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Maurice Molyneaux (8bit Maurice) @mauricemolyneaux.com · 11/09/2026

More road tripping. 1. Taos Pueblo. 2. Beer-52 at the Wings Over the Rockies Air & Space Museum. 3. Psygnosis alums Matt & Maurice in Boulder, CO. 4. Chip with lunch during the drive west over the Rockies.

Maurice and Chip the plush pup at Taos Pueblos.

Chip the plush pup at the Wings Over the Rockies Air Museum sits in the beer garden with a beer and a USAF B-52 in the background.

Chip the plush pup seatbelted in the passenger seat with his hot dog and potato chips.

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Maurice Molyneaux (8bit Maurice) @mauricemolyneaux.com · 11/09/2026

Sampling new-to-me tequila and mezcals at Joe's Tequila Bar in Santa Fe, NM, a few weeks ago. Chip, of course, stole the show.

Chip the plush pup wearing sunglasses, seated atop a bar, with a double shot of tequila and a red plate adorned with orange slices, salt and cinnamon arranged like a blue agave plant

Tasting Mezcals: left, Fidencio; right, Granalta.

Lost Lore reposado high-proof tequila double shot and bottle, and a red plate adorned with orange slices, salt, and cinnamon arranged like a blue agave plant.

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Maurice Molyneaux (8bit Maurice) @mauricemolyneaux.com · 10/09/2026

Recent adventures in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The pizza crust at Upper Crust Pizza was magnificent.

Maurice with a margarita in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

The courtyard of the New Mexico Museum of Art in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Chip the plush pup at Upper Crust Pizza in Santa Fe, New Mexico with a soda, a slice and a salad.

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Maurice Molyneaux (8bit Maurice) @mauricemolyneaux.com · 31/08/2026

Fun at the New Mexico Museum of Space History in Alamogordo yesterday.

Chip the plush pup with a segment of the V’ger interior.

Maurice and Chip the plush pup prepare to beam down in a partial replica of a Star Trek transporter.

Chip the plush pup in an astronaut jumpsuit in from of a lunar landscape featuring an LEM, rover, flag, and Earth.

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Maurice Molyneaux (8bit Maurice) @mauricemolyneaux.com · 29/08/2026

Chip then stealthily drank my margarita while I watched the mariachi band.

Chip the plush steals Maurice's margarita in the Pink Store (La Tienda Rosa) inPuerto Palomas de Villa, Chihuahua, México.

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Maurice Molyneaux (8bit Maurice) @mauricemolyneaux.com · 29/08/2026

Day trip to Puerto Palomas de Villa, Chihuahua, México. 1. Border sign at Puerto Palomas. 2. Monumento Pancho Villa. 3. La Catrina figure in the Pink Store (La Tienda Rosa). 4. Chip the plush pup gets rabbit-eared while enjoying a Fresca in the Pink Store.

Border sign at Puerto Palomas de Villa, Chihuahua, México.
Monumento Pancho Villa in Puerto Palomas de Villa, Chihuahua, México.

Monumento Pancho Villa in Puerto Palomas de Villa, Chihuahua, México.

La Catrina figure in the Pink Store (La Tienda Rosa) in Puerto Palomas de Villa, Chihuahua, México.

Chip the plush pup gets rabbit-eared while enjoying a Fresca in the Pink Store (La Tienda Rosa) in Puerto Palomas de Villa, Chihuahua, México.

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Maurice Molyneaux (8bit Maurice) @mauricemolyneaux.com · 26/08/2026

Hanging with band members before the show.

Maurice wearing a band T-shirt for The Queers, featuring a leather clad Felix the Cat holding a “This place sucks” sign and flipping the bird.

Maurice with The Queers drummer Alex “HogLog Rehab” Martin at Launchpad in Albuquerque.

Maurice with The Queers touring keyboardist at Launchpad in Albuquerque.

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Maurice Molyneaux (8bit Maurice) @mauricemolyneaux.com · 26/08/2026

I was the oldest dude in the mosh pit before and after this, at The Queers show at Launchpad in Albuquerque, Aug 25.

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Maurice Molyneaux (8bit Maurice) @mauricemolyneaux.com · 24/08/2026

Yep. We did that for mobile, then replaced it with Pac-Man’s Arcade Corner. @bootch.bsky.social

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Maurice Molyneaux (8bit Maurice) @mauricemolyneaux.com · 16/08/2026

White Sands. I was here last as a 14 month old tot newly arrived from Europe. Chip tried to blend in but his spots gave him away. Mr. T. and I were even more obvious.

Chip the plush pup sits on a dune of White Sands National Monument.

Milton, Maurice and Chip the plush pup on the dunes of White Sands National Monument.

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Maurice Molyneaux (8bit Maurice) @mauricemolyneaux.com · 14/08/2026

Canyon de Chelly. Paid for a four-hour guided tour. You’re not allowed in most of the canyon without a guide.

Maurice in front of White House Ruins in Canyon de Chelly.

Photo of pictograms on the cliff face below the cliff dwellings of the White House Ruins in Canyon de Chelly.

Chip the plushie pup spies cliff dwellings from the rim at Canyon de Chelly.

Chip the plush pup on the overlook to the Spider Rock pinnacle.

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Maurice Molyneaux (8bit Maurice) @mauricemolyneaux.com · 13/08/2026

A few of many many pix taken on a 2.5 hour guided tour of Monument Valley sites.

Maurice holding up three fingers to match the Three Sisters in Monument Valley.

Maurice making shita-mabuta o hiku beneath the Eye of the Sun in Monument Valley.

Petroglyphs at the Eye of the Sun in Monument Valley.

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Maurice Molyneaux (8bit Maurice) @mauricemolyneaux.com · 12/08/2026

Road tripping from Utah into Arizona. The 100+F temp on top of being wiped out from the previous days’ hikes nearly did me in on the relatively easy alien world of the Toadstool Hoodoos. The shortehike at Glen Canyon Dam was not difficult but I was stick-a-fork-in-me I’m DONE for today.

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Maurice Molyneaux (8bit Maurice) @mauricemolyneaux.com · 11/08/2026

Past two days did five hikes in two National Parks in utah.

Maurice on the overlook of the Bryce Amphitheater.

Zion National Park and the Virgin River seen from the Kayenta Trail.

Maurice on the trail by the Lower Emerald Pool in Zion, with a minor waterfall behind him.

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Maurice Molyneaux (8bit Maurice) @mauricemolyneaux.com · 11/08/2026

Pan-o-rama looking east from the end of the Canyon Overlook Trail in Zion National Park.

View from the canyon overlook trail terminus in Zion National Park.

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Maurice Molyneaux (8bit Maurice) @mauricemolyneaux.com · 25/07/2026

Oh, I know. In was just trying to think through the timing of when the Easter Egg was reported. I assume it got spread amongst players of the game.

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Maurice Molyneaux (8bit Maurice) @mauricemolyneaux.com · 25/07/2026

if you mean on the underside, it wasn't flat on the AMT kit I built in the mid-70s.

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Maurice Molyneaux (8bit Maurice) @mauricemolyneaux.com · 25/07/2026

A kid wrote to Atari and said he found it. I dunno if the envelope shown in this video about said Easter Egg is authentic, but it's dated August 1980. I think maybe a magazine reported on it. I had dinner with Warren 10 years ago. Nice guy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBp6...

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Warren Robinett discusses the making of Adventure

YouTube video by Atari

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Maurice Molyneaux (8bit Maurice) @mauricemolyneaux.com · 13/07/2026

Busy painting parts of early aughts toys to re-create some props I originally made 15 years ago for a film, but which wandered off with the DP and may be somewhere in Saudi Arabia now.

Photo of disassembled early 2000s toys with the parts being repainted before reassembly for use as sci-fi props.

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Maurice Molyneaux (8bit Maurice) @mauricemolyneaux.com · 24/06/2026

Here's that same model converted into the format of a very short-lived 3D package called 3D Workshop, and employed on a cover concept I did for the late Morph's Outpost magazine (which I wrote for). #AtariST

Morph's Outpost magazine cover concept featuring USS Excelsior 3D model.

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Maurice Molyneaux (8bit Maurice) @mauricemolyneaux.com · 24/06/2026

The Excelsior ship in this very short Cyber Studio animation was a mesh built from the construction plans for a small miniature of said ship built by Ed Mirecki and Tom Hudson for #StarTrek VI, and which appeared only (as far as I know) on a Klingon targeting display. The 'splosion is 3D, too.

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Maurice Molyneaux (8bit Maurice) @mauricemolyneaux.com · 22/06/2026

I never loved this game, but I loved Miru (Pal) as a play mechanic and wanted to add her to a new Pac-Man game or in a very rethought version of this game.

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Maurice Molyneaux (8bit Maurice) @mauricemolyneaux.com · 20/06/2026

Did you like the space station interiors in Moonraker? Because that's Adam rechanneling his Star Trek ideas for Bond.

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Maurice Molyneaux (8bit Maurice) @mauricemolyneaux.com · 31/05/2026

Wish I could play it. It looks like to run it on my Chromebook I’d have to switch on developer mode and wipe it in the process

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Maurice Molyneaux (8bit Maurice) @mauricemolyneaux.com · 24/05/2026

Could be the rights reverted, or they only wanted to highlight made by Atari games. I had the Atari 5200 version and played it a lot.

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Maurice Molyneaux (8bit Maurice) @mauricemolyneaux.com · 19/05/2026

BTW, in the event you didn't know, the 20 year-old namcogames site is still up and some of the User Guides for the games can be downloaded, like this one for Pac-Man Plus, which indicates there are five level colors (green, red, pink, cyan, orange). www.namcogames.com/_guides/User...

namcogames.com

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GLAAD @glaad.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is targeting LGBTQ stories. They are trying to control what you see on television. This government overreach is dangerous to the existence of an independent and free media. Take action: glaad.org/fcc

Tell the FCC: LGBTQ People on TV Don't Need A Warning Label

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