Pac Man was first released in Japan in 1979 and it was released in the United States in 1980. Pac Man is one of the most famous arcade games of all time. The game was developed by a man that worked for Namco. His name is Toru Iwatani. He has said that Pac Man's shape was made to look like a missing pizza slice but on an interview in 1986 he said that Pac Mans' shape came from rounding out the Japanese character for mouth. Pac-man was a cute, non-violent creature running away from ghost's. He was first named Puck Man, then it was changed to Pac Man because they thought that it would be too easy to vandalize by changing the P to an F spelling a cuss word. The world wide record was set by 33 year old Billy Mitchell with a total of 3,333,360 points Pac-man supposedly has no ending as long as you keep 1 life, but there is a bug on level 256, so the right half of the screen makes random symbols, making the level unbeatable. If the level is cleared the game resets so you go back to level 1. In December 1982, Jeffrey R. Yee, [ 8 years old ] apparently got a letter from president Ronald Reagan saying congratulations on getting a score of 6,131,940 points. This could only happen if he beat the split screen level [ level 256 ]. In 1999 Billy Mitchell offered
$100,000 to anyone that could beat the split screen level before January 1, 2000; no one got $100,000. Pac-man was so popular they made ms. Pac-man, Jr. Pac-man, a cartoon show, t-shirts, mugs, bed sheets, pencils, and many more products. Pac-man is one of the most popular games ever made. From 1980 to 2000 pac-man had been played near 10 billion times. It is still played in the United States, Japan and other places that Pac Man has gone to. Pac Man is in some arcades and you can also find it on your computer.
The 256th split-screen level.
| Enemy Color | Original Puck Man[25] | American Pac-Man |
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| Character (Personality) | Translation | Nickname | Translation | Alternate
character | Alternate
nickname | Character (Personality) | Nickname |
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| Red | Oikake (追いかけ) | chaser | Akabei (赤ベイ) | red guy | Urchin | Macky | Shadow | Blinky |
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| Pink | Machibuse (待ち伏せ) | ambusher | Pinky (ピンキー) | pink guy | Romp | Micky | Speedy | Pinky |
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| Cyan | Kimagure (気まぐれ) | fickle | Aosuke (青助) | blue guy | Stylist | Mucky | Bashful | Inky |
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| Orange | Otoboke (お惚け) | stupid | Guzuta (愚図た) | slow guy | Crybaby | Mocky | Pokey | Clyde |
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