Pac-Man, arguably an even better game than its predecessor.īeyond its cultural impact, Pac-Man’s influence on the video game industry itself cannot be overstated. By 1982, Pac-Man also had, unsurprisingly, a sequel - Ms.
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The little guy graced apparel, had his own breakfast cereal, starred in a Saturday morning animated series from 1982-83 and even had a brief cameo in Disney’s original Tron film.
Throughout 1981-82, millions of people had Pac-Man fever - so much so that they were willing to turn a novelty song by Buckner & Garcia called “Pac-Man Fever” into a gold record that spent three weeks in Billboard’s Top 10 in early ’82.Īs one of the first identifiable (and marketable) characters in video game history, the lovably cute Pac-Man found himself in many other pop-culture arenas beyond that hit song. Over its first year of release, the game grossed more than $1 billion in quarters. But Pac-Man has been embraced by subsequent generations, too, and it remains one of only a handful of arcade games from that time that you still might run into on occasion in a bar or bowling alley.Īlthough Pac-Man was not an immediate hit when Namco launched it (as Puckman) in Japan on May 22, 1980, once Midway Games began distributing it in North America on Oct. Decades after Pac-Man’s debut, the sights and sounds of game designer Toru Iwatani’s legendary creation still represent the height of the golden age of video games in the minds of many who lived through the era.
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