The game’s distinctive electronic music and sound effects were also an inspiration to early hip-hop pioneers. An album of video-game-inspired songs followed. The tribute song Pac-Man Fever by artists Jerry Buckner and Gary Garcia reached number nine in the US charts in March 1982. This advert for the device is quite a rush.ġ6. Japanese toy manufacturer Tomy made a famously beautiful, handheld Pac-Man game in the shape of an enormous yellow blob with an LCD display. Although it sold 7m copies, the game was so wretched it has been widely blamed for the 1983 video game crash, alongside the similarly poor title, ET.ġ5. With its simplified maze and blocky visuals, the Atari 2600 version of Pac-Man is widely considered one of the worst arcade-to-home console conversions of all time.
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A strategy guide to the game, Mastering Pac-Man by professional blackjack player Ken Uston, sold more than 1m copies.ġ4. Inspired by pizza … Toru Iwatani, creator of Pac-Man. Pac-Man became gaming’s first marketable mascot, with licensed merchandise including lunchboxes, joke books, T-shirts, board games, pyjamas and, for the romantic gamer, Valentine cards. Within a year of Pac-Man’s launch, 100,000 units had been sold and 250m games were being played every week. Martin Amis was a fan of the game and in his 1982 book Invasion of the Space Invaders claimed to have spent weeks in “a Pac-Man-fed stupor unwilling and unable to think about anything else”.ġ2. This was one of the first examples of a non-interactive video game “cutscene”.ġ1. The game features short animated sequences between levels, showing Pac-Man being chased by the ghosts. It was originally called Puck Man, but the US distributor Midway was worried that the word Puck could easily be modified by mischievous vandals into something ruder. The game was only a moderate success until its blockbusting US launch the following October.ĩ.
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Pac-Man manufacturer Namco installed the first machine in a movie theatre in Shibuya, Tokyo, on. It’s considered one of the first examples of a “power up” in video game history.ħ. The idea of eating a power pill to give Pac-Man super strength came partly from the cartoon Popeye and his love of spinach, and partly from the Japanese concept of kokoro (“spirit”) or life force. Published by Bandai Namco Entertainment America Inc.Arcade adventure … Pac-Man.
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