Christmas Comes to Pacland

<p>The Advent Calendar House kicks off another Christmas countdown with the original video game crash, which leaves Santa stranded in Pac-Man’s neighborhood in 1982’s “Christmas Comes to Pacland.”</p><p><strong>WARNING:</strong> This episode contains spoilers about Santa Claus from 11:25 to <a href="https://adventcalendar.house/episodes/christmas-comes-to-pacland?t=13m30s">13:30</a>.</p><hr /><h4>On This Episode</h4><ol><li><strong>Mike Westfall</strong> (<a href="https://twitter.com/fallwestmike">@fallwestmike</a>), apparently necessary police officer in a town named after its own savior.</li><li><strong>Lindy</strong> (<a href="https://twitter.com/ieatvideogames">@ieatvideogames</a>), and</li><li><strong>Alicia</strong> (<a href="https://twitter.com/thinkbluee">@thinkbluee</a>), the Sour Puss and Chomp-Chomp to my Pac-Baby.</li></ol><hr /><h4>Topics and Tangents</h4><ol><li>Santa is flying with 8 reindeer, including Rudolph. Who got the night off?</li><li><a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-scientific-reason-why-reindeer-have-red-noses-166263479/">Why some reindeer actually have red noses</a>.</li><li>This might be the first time a Christmas special shows Santa using a computer.</li><li><a href="https://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/Russi-Taylor/">Russi Taylor’s</a> Pac-Baby has the same voice she would later use as Robin in “Muppet Babies.”</li><li>No one in Pacland knows about Christmas, yet the Ghost Monsters know “Jingle Bells,” which admittedly isn’t all that Christmassy, so it gets a pass.</li><li>Absent from this special is the Ghost Monsters’ boss, <a href="https://hanna-barbera.fandom.com/wiki/Mezmaron">Mezmaron</a>, who looks like Darth Vader with his helmet off at the end of “Return of the Jedi.”</li><li>Is Pac-Man living in a town where everything is shaped like him the Pac-person equivalent of cartoonists drawing faces or eyes on everything to personify them?</li></ol><hr /><h4>Previous Podcast Episodes Mentioned</h4><ul><li><a href="https://adventcalendar.house/episo