Hungry Ghosts Quotes

“The maze reappeared, in ghostly blue this time, the pellets punctuated by countless miniature foods--- not only fruits but pixelated pizza slices, tiny sushi rolls, petite hamburgers. Ms. Pac-Man faded onto the screen, not in the bottom half, where she usually started, but in the central box, where the ghosts usually did. Instead of her trademark yellow, she appeared blinking, in blue.
"She's--- she's one of the ghosts?"
Maura took up the controls again. Kostya watched her move through the maze, eating everything in sight.
"It's a secret level," Maura told him. "Only available in the 1983 rerelease of the Japanese cabinet. It's called the Hungry Ghost Maze."
"So it's a bonus round? The point's just to... get more points?"
"The points don't matter in the ghost realm. To clear this level, you have to find the Happy Meal. Hidden in one of these fruits is a portal that gets you back to the real world.”
― Daria Lavelle, Aftertaste

“Careful! Ms. Pac-Man only gets to stay on this side as long as Pac-Man survives on his. True love, right? If I don't find the portal before you die," Maura warned him, "I vanish. Literally. We'll have to reset the game to get her to show up again."
"Happy Meal, huh? To bring a ghost back from the Dead?" Kostya maneuvered Pac-Man around a corner. "That's kind of on the nose."
"Well, Hungry Ghosts are the kind that come back." Maura grinned. "Feeding the Dead to help them cross--- it's a whole thing in, like, a dozen different traditions. Japan. China. Mexico. Ancient Egypt. I figured it'd be up your alley.”
― Daria Lavelle, Aftertaste