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Game Over by PES

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Centipede, Frogger, Asteroids, Space Invaders, and Pac-Man are all remade with cupcakes, muffins, toy cars, watches, candy, beetles, pizza, and more in this HD version of Game Over by stop motion filmmaker PES. The original film was made in 2006, an instant stop motion classic that was inspired by Pac-Man. In a Reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything), PES revealed:

“…I read an interview with the creator of the Pac-Man character, Tōru Iwatani, and he said he based the character of Pac-Man on a pizza with a slice missing. I never knew that and thought it would be a really interesting idea for a film, and wanted to apply it to other arcade games. And that was really the birth of that idea…”

Watch more PES: Submarine Sandwich & Western Spaghetti and The Deep.

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