Stealth play has become a staple of modern gaming. Though it may not be the primary focus, dozens of games utilize stealth in one form or another, all beginning with a pixelated circle running from ghosts. Pac-Man is the most popular arcade game of all time, and the little yellow chomper is the most recognizable icon in all of gaming.
Creator Toru Iwatani designed Pac-Man to appeal to an audience beyond the typical hardcore gamer, and that it did. Pac-Man became a global phenomenon, spawning books, a cartoon , a top-ten pop song , and hordes of merchandise from breakfast cereals to roller skates. In addition to its own success, Pac-Man brought gaming itself into the mainstream. The industry ever since has produced games marketed to broader audiences in addition to those targeted specifically to serious gamers.
Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account? Search the world's largest fan wiki platform. Dan Klinefelter Aug 30, Game Reviews Games. The uncertainty continued when Pac-Man was shown off at a coin-op trade show later that year. Many of the American arcade operators in attendance thought that another Namco game at the show—a driving game called Rally X —would be the more popular of the two due to its faster pace.
Its name was changed from Puck-Man to Pac-Man , and the game's journey to global popularity began. Selling , arcade machines within 18 months, generating millions in profits and yet more revenue from merchandising, Pac-Man was an international phenomenon. But Iwatani, like many designers and programmers working in Japan at the time—including Space Invaders ' creator Tomohiro Nishikado—didn't directly profit from all that success.
There was no change in my salary, no bonus, no official citation of any kind. Although Pac-Man doesn't have an ending as such, an integer overflow makes the th level impossible to clear. This means that if every dot, power pellet, fruit, and enemy is consumed on each of the levels, the maximum possible score is 3,, points. The legendarily dextrous videogame champion Billy Mitchell was the first player to achieve a perfect Pac-Man score.
To celebrate Pac-Man 's 30th birthday back in , Google placed a playable version of the game on its homepage. According to a report issued by a time management company, the game's brief appearance managed to rob the world of around 4. Google's first ever playable doodle, the search engine's anniversary version of Pac-Man can still be played today. Lists News Pop Culture retro The '80s video-games.
Red Kitsune Commandironhide. Recent blog posts Forum. Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account? Pac-Man Character. History Talk 0. Pac-Man is the protagonist fictional character of the franchise of the same name by Namco, who was first introduced in the arcade game Pac-Man in Ever since, the character has appeared in more than 30 officially licensed game spin-offs, as well as in numerous unauthorized clones and bootlegs, spawned a variety of Pac-Man merchandise with his image, as well as a television series.
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