粵

食sik6鬼gwai2

sik6 gwai2shí guǐ

English

  1. Pac-Man, an arcade game
  2. Pac-Man, a famous arcade game in the 80's, player control the yellow ball character to escape from the computer controlled ghosts, until he can eat the power-up pill, he can turn back to eat the ghost instead. The Pac-Man was so successful, making the game became the representative of the whole industry, and the game developer Namco has used the yellow character as their company's mascot. Literally: eat ghost

粵語 — Cantonese

  1. 80年代一款非常受歡迎嘅街機遊戲,玩家要控制黃色圓形主角逃避電腦控制嘅鬼追捕,直到食到大力丸就可以食返啲鬼轉頭。由於遊戲非常成功,食鬼成為業界代表形象,開發商Namco亦用左呢個黃色主角做公司嘅吉祥物。

Examples

  • 我細個打街機得食鬼㗎咋,點似得依家又3D,體感,又VR咁多花款?

    When I was a kid, the arcade games were only as simple as Pac-Man. There were no such things as 3D, motion sensing, or VR.

Sources: cc-canto, rime-cantonese, words.hk

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