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History:
Creation

Pac-man was created by Toru Iwatani, a Japanese programmer working for Namco. The Pac-man shape was formed by taking the Japanese kanji symbol for mouth, which resembles a rounded square, and giving it a mouth to consume the pellets. The name itself comes from the Japanese phrase "pakku pakku taberu." "Pakku pakku" in Japanese is a sound indicating opening and closing your mouth quickly.


Development

The development phase of Pac-man lasted about 18 months, as Iwatani, assisted by other Namco programmers, worked out the details of maze generation and ghost movement. Fruit was added to give a random element to the game that would encourage players to take risks and not simply follow a set pattern. Each of these details came together in the first Japanese release of the game, named Puck-Man, on May 22, 1980.


Competitions

With the increased visibility and popularity of the game came local and national competitions. These were held early on at parlors or arcades worldwide. In 1999, Twin Galaxies recorded the first perfect game of Pac-man, played by Billy Mitchell, a feat that has been matched only four times on Twin Galaxies' scoreboard. The year 2007 saw the first Pac-man World Championship in New York City as part of a promotion for the new Pac-man Championship Edition for the Xbox 360.

Legacy

Pac-man continues to be one of the most popular games of all time. It has spawned more than 30 sequels and spin-off games and seen versions on every major console release since the Atari 2600. The Guinness Book of World Records has eight entries including Billy Mitchell's first win and the award for Largest Pac-Man Game played in New York using real people and cellular phones. Pac-man continues to be a major part of video game history.


How Do You Play Pac-Man?
It's probably a very rare person who has never played Pac-Man. Even for those who may have missed it in the 1980s, Pac-Man has been re-made on nearly every video game platform since then. Pac-Man even appeared on the front page of Google (as a playable game) on Pac-Man's 30th anniversary.
However, for those few who are unfamiliar with the game, here are the basics. You, the player, control the yellow, circular Pac-Man using either keyboard arrows or a joystick. The goal is to move Pac-Man around the maze-like screen gobbling up all 240 dots before the four ghosts (sometimes called monsters) get you.
The four ghosts are all different colors: Blinky (red), Inky (light blue), Pinky (pink), and Clyde (orange). However, they all turn dark blue when Pac-Man eats one of the four power pellets available on each level; the pellets enable Pac-Man to eat the ghosts.
Occasionally, fruit will appear on the screen. If Pac-Man gobbles those up then he earns a point bonus, with different fruit worth different values.
While all this is happening, Pac-Man makes a wocka-wocka sound that is nearly as memorable as the yellow character himself.

What Happens When You Win?
Many people are impressed with themselves if they get to level five or six on Pac-Man. However, there are always those die-hards out there who are determined to finish the game.
Despite how popular Pac-Man was in the 1980s, it actually took 19 years for the first person to ever finish Pac-Man. That amazing feat was accomplished by 33-year-old Billy Mitchell, who finished Pac-Man with a perfect game on July 3, 1999.
Mitchell completed all 255 levels of Pac-Man and then when he reached level 256, half the screen became jumbled. This is an impossible level to complete and thus the end of the game.
It took Mitchell about six hours to win the game and he did so with the highest possible score -- 3,333,360 points.

Ms. Pac-Man and More
The Pac-Man video game was so immensely popular that within a year there were spin-offs being created and released, some of them being unauthorized. The most popular of these was Ms. Pac-Man, which first appeared in 1981 as an unauthorized version of the game.
Ms. Pac-Man was created by Midway, the same company who was authorized to sell the original Pac-Man in the U.S. Ms. Pac-Man became so popular that Namco eventually made it an official game.
A few of the notable spin-offs were Pac-Man Plus, Professor Pac-Man, Junior Pac-Man, Pac-Land, Pac-Man World, and Pac-Pix.

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