Sunday, May 22, 2011

On this day: 1980 - Namco releases arcade game Pac-Man

A screenshot of the game.

Pac-Man was first released in Japan on May 22, 1980. Pac-Man was immediately popular when it was released and still is today. Today there are many ways to play Pac-Man on the internet as well as on arcade machines.

The aim of the game is to guide Pac-Man through a maze, eating pac-dots. Four monsters try to catch Pac-Man as he eats his way through the maze.

These four enemies are cunning and it is sometimes quite hard to avoid them.

Pac-Man is still today a very popular arcade and online game. It is one of the most recognised arcade games in the world.

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