Today, on PAC-MAN’s 30th birthday, you can rediscover some of your 8-bit memories-or meet PAC-MAN for the first time-through our first-ever playable Google doodle. Google has rolled out a mini-version of it.ĭuring the heyday of space shooters, T?ru Iwatani’s creation stood out as one of the first video games aimed at a broader audience, with a cute story of pizza-shaped character gobbling dots in a maze, colourful (literally!) characters, friendly design, very little violence and everlasting fun.Oh, and it isn’t Flash based for you iPad/Pod/Phone users who want to get your game on. The result was a game he named Puck Man.Īnyway, if you want to rekindle your Pac-Man love affair, head over to and have a play. Iwatani’s efforts to appeal to a wider audience-beyond the typical demographics of young boys and teenagers-eventually led him to add elements of a maze. Although it is often cited that the character’s shape was inspired by a pizza missing a slice, he admitted in a 1986 interview that it was a half-truth and the character design also came from simplifying and rounding out the Japanese character for mouth, kuchi (口) as well as the basic concept of eating. The original title was pronounced pakku-man (パックマン?) and was inspired by the Japanese onomatopoeic phrase paku-paku taberu (パクパク食べる?), where paku-paku describes (the sound of) the mouth movement when widely opened and then closed in succession. The game was developed primarily by a young Namco employee Tōru Iwatani, over a year, beginning in April 1979, employing a nine-man team. Pac-Man has the highest brand awareness (94%)of any video game character among American consumers, according to the Davie-Brown Index and the game is still popular today. In October of that same year, it came to America and was an instant hit - America’s first blockbuster mainstream videogame. Hit ‘insert coin’ button twice and get a 2nd player Miss Pac-Mac who someone else can control with the “ADSW” keys. Update: Google being Google has an Easter Egg in the app.
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