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When all pac-dots are eaten, Pac-Man is taken to the next stage,

Four enemies (Blinky, Pinky, Inky and Clyde) roam the maze, trying to catch Pac-Man.

If an enemy touches Pac-Man, a life is lost. When all lives have been lost, the game ends.

History

When Toru Iwatani hungrily stared into his pizza box, containing 2 slices short of a full pie, the idea for one of the greatest arcade games was born.

At 27 years, the Japanese student came up with the idea for Pac-Man - a game that became legend .

The Game's Entrance Into Society:

1980 - Midway first released the Pacman arcade.

1981 - Atari published the first wave of home version: 2600

1983 - Apple, PC, Commodor 64, Vic 20, TI-99-4A

1996 - Namco re-released the arcade version as part of the Namco Classics Vol. 2

References:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pac-Man

http://www.classicgaming.cc/classics/pacman/history.php

Gaming Platforms

•Arcade Machines

•Handheld Game Consoles

•Mobiles

•PC

•Virtual games

• Pac-land
• Pac-Mania
• Pac-Man 2
• Pac-Man VR
• Pac-In-Time
• Pac-Man 3D

In 1983, Jr. Pac-Man was introduced,

Pacman

Skills and Action games (Maze)

How it is played

Group

The player controls Pac-Man through a maze, eating pac-dots or pellets.

(cc) photo by theaucitron on Flickr

Ms. Pac-Man the following year, in 1982

• Pac-Man is one of the longest running video game franchises from the golden age of video arcade games

• and one of only three video games that are on display at the Smithsonianin Washington, D.C.

pacman

among the most famous arcade games of all time.

having generated more than $2.5 billion in quarters by the 1990s.

also one of the highest-grossing video games of all time,

• Pac-Man is an arcade game
• uses the C programming langugage
• first released in Japan on May 22, 1980.
• developed by Namco