I found these new “Get a Girlfriend” ads from Axe Deodorant at ettf.net and thought they were too amusing not to post. Anyway, I figured I’d use the opportunity to throw some fancy arcade trivia your way:

1) Believe it or not, Pac-Man was originally called “Puck Man,” but the arcade game was rechristened when company execs realized how easy it would be for delinquents to vandalize the displays simply by scratching off part of the letter “P.” Somehow Fac-Man posed much less of a threat.

2) Noel Bushnell who started the Atari Corporation originally wanted to call his company Syzygy. Fortunately for the world, the name was already taken by a roofing company.

3) Somewhere between their stints as juvenile hackers and their co-founding Apple, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak found time to design the game “Breakout” for Atari.