Pac-Man, is a top 5 best-selling arcade game, according to U.S. Pac-Man has appeared in more than 90 games.When a playable version of Pac-Man appeared on the Google Doodle it cost the world almost 5 million man-hours and $120 million in lost productivity.Here are 12 other things you should know about Pac-Man. Pac-Man has conquered all media – Online, print, music, and merchandising. The popularity of Pac-Man opened the door to the first generation of gaming merchandise. Iwatani told CNN, “ We introduced an AI-like algorithm that sent the ghosts to surround Pac-Man from all sides.” Blinky (red) constantly chases Pac-Man, Pinky (pink) attempts to ambush him, Inky (light blue) is randomized depending on Pac-Man’s position and Clyde (orange) will get close to the player then attempt to flee to the bottom left corner, potentially cutting off escape routes. Pac-Man’s protagonists, the ghosts Blinky, Pinky, Inky, and Clyde each have their own personalities based on early artificial intelligence (AI) routines. Iwatani told Wired that Popeye was the inspiration for Pac-Man’s ability to attack his enemies by eating fruit. Here comes this game that’s brightly colored and centered around a character that really doesn’t have a gender … And all of a sudden, we found a mascot - the first character in video games that existed not just in the artwork, but in the game itself. Chris Melissinos, curator of the 2012 Smithsonian American Art Museum exhibition “ The Art of Video Games.” told CNN The game had a defined main character, which was unheard of at the time. Pac-Man was also a pioneer in character development. This universal attraction helped bring an unprecedented number of players into arcades around the world, who shoveled billions of quarters into its slots. The new ideas in Pac-Man did something few other games did at that time – it appealed to female gamers. The game presented something fresh and new. Pac-Man’s successĪ large part of Pac-Man’s success, in an era where almost all games were space-themed shooters ( Galaga, Missile Command, Space Invaders), was its non-violent, maze-chase gameplay. The arcade game was played more than 10 billion times in the 20th century. Between its debut in a Tokyo theater on May 22, 1980, and 1990 Namco sold 400,000 Pac-Man gaming cabinets to arcades around the world and made $3.5 billion ( $7.7 billion in 2020) in lifetime sales. The game was produced by the Japanese company Namco and distributed in the U.S. Pac-Man was originally called Puck-Man – but was changed because of how easy it was to turn that into an obscenity. The idea for Pac-Man came to him when he removed a slice from a pizza. The video game was created by game designer Toru Iwatani, who was 24 at the time. Pac-Man is the best-selling arcade game ever. Pac-Man turned 40 this Memorial Day weekend.
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