Pac-Man game

Pac-Man is one of the most recognized video games in history, even at current levels. Pac-Man is a Japanese creation, created by Namco, and in 1982 it was released in the United States. Pac-Man was a huge success and became a major icon of the game’s popular culture. Pac-man managed to inspire a cereal, an animated television series, and a top 40 pop single.

Pac-Man’s look was inspired by a pizza with a slice missing. Namco designer Tohru Iwatani had pizza for lunch and the rest is history.

Pac-Man became one of the best-selling coin games in history. More than 350,000 Pac-Man machines were manufactured and sold worldwide.

The original Pac-Man game consisted of 256 levels. However, due to a bug, only the first 255 levels can be played. The right half of level 256 is a mess and the level cannot be finished. Therefore, the highest possible score is 3,330,360, which can only be achieved by eating each fruit, dot, energy pellet, and blue ghost for 255 levels.

Due to the sudden and enduring popularity of Pac-Man, Namco was forced to give players something new. The most notable and significant was Ms. Pac-Man, which featured various improvements and changes, such as faster gameplay, more mazes, new intermissions, and bonus moving items. Others who did not take in such a reach were and were later discontinued and forgotten.

Pac-Man sequels:

• Ms. Pac-Man (1982)
• Super Pac-Man (1982)
• Pac and Pal (1983)
• Pac-Man and Chomp Chomp (1983)
• Pac-Land (1984)
• Pac-Mania (1987)
• Pac-Man 2: The New Adventures (1994)
• Pac-In-Time (1995)
• Pac-Man World (1999)
• Mrs. Pac-Man Maze Madness (2000)
• Pac-Man: Adventures in Time (2000)
• Ms. Pac-Man: Quest for the Golden Labyrinth (2001)
• Pac-Man All Stars (2002)
• Pac-Man World 2 (2002)
• Pac-Man Fever (2002)
• Pac-Man vs. (2003)
• Pac-Man Pinball Advance (2005)
• Pac-Pix (2005)
• Pac ‘n Roll (2005)
• Pac-Man World 3 (2005)
• Pac-Man World Rally (2006)
• Pac-Man Championship Edition (2007)
• Pac-Man World 4: Spooky Returns (2008)

Pac-Man was more than a game, but for an entire generation it became a culture. Only with Pac-Man could all generations be able to sit back and enjoy a fun game, unlike today, in which video games are known as pieces of violent gaming technology. Pac-man attracted doctors, children, lawyers, grandparents to play. The next time you think that Halo and Grand Theft Auto changed our gaming world, just think that Pac-Man managed to capture our imaginations so much that it even created a shortage of yen coins in the country.