Yellow pellets, blue energizers, ghosts and the three-quarter dot we’ve all come to love. Wakka, wakka, wakka. Here comes Pac-Man.

If you were anywhere around the West Quad courtyard Saturday afternoon, you’d initially notice the song “Pac-Man Fever” by Jerry Buckner and Gary Garcia on repeat. But then you’d ask yourself, “Why are people dressed as shiny ghosts chasing a guy wearing a Pac-Man helmet through a maze?”

Because it’s fun!

Hosted by the university’s chapter of the University of South Carolina Association for Computing Machinery, the Pac-Man Competition may have been the first that the school has ever seen of a live recreation of a classic arcade video game.

ACM chapter president Ben Fine said this event that he and the group have been advertising for about three weeks — by handing out fliers all around campus while wearing a crafty homemade Pac-Man head — was a chance for them to get the word out about their newly reformed club.

“You could hold talks, but this (holding a Pac-Man Competition) brings the people out,” said the fourth-year computer science student.