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Pac-Man, originally called Puck Man [a] in Japan, is a 1980 maze video game developed and released by Namco for arcades. In North America, the game was released by Midway Manufacturing as part of its licensing agreement with Namco America. The player controls Pac-Man, who must eat all the dots inside an enclosed maze while avoiding four colored ...
Christmas Comes to Pac-Land In this Christmas special, Pac-Man and his family help Santa Claus (voiced by Peter Cullen) after he crash lands in Pac-Land (after the reindeer were startled by the floating eyes of the Ghost Monsters after Pac-Man, Ms. Pac-Man and Pac-Baby chomped them). Mezmeron was the only character from the cartoon that is not ...
Scarfman is a clone of Pac-Man written by Philip A. Oliver for the TRS-80 computer and published by The Cornsoft Group in 1981. [2] [1] A version for the TRS-80 Color Computer followed in 1982 as Color Scarfman, which uses 64x64 low resolution graphics. [3] Oliver also wrote the Enhanced BASIC Compiler for the TRS-80 Model III and 4. [4]
The lilac chaser is a visual illusion, also known as the Pac-Man illusion. [1] It consists of 12 lilac (or pink, rose, or magenta), blurred discs arranged in a circle (like the numbers on a clock), around a small black, central cross on a grey background. One of the discs disappears briefly (for about 0.1 seconds), then the next (about 0.125 ...
The visual style, tone and themes for "Secret Level" episodes are varied like the games they're based on, but most hit familiar beats. Then there's episode 6, "Pac-Man: Circle," a horror-tinged ...
The ghosts were created by Toru Iwatani, who was the head designer for the original Pac-Man arcade game. The idea for the ghosts was made from Iwatani's desire to create a video game that could attract women and younger players, particularly couples, at a time where most video games were "war"-type games or Space Invaders clones.
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Also Known As "Pac-Man & Chomp Chomp", replacing Pal with Chomp Chomp from Hanna-Barbera's Pac-Man Cartoon, but limited to a run of 300 machines produced for several European countries. The game was never released in The United States as it was a failure at the arcades. Phozon: Namco Phozon: August 1983: Yes No No Libble Rabble: Namco Libble Rabble