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Toru Iwatani
The creator of pac man was born -
"Puck Man"
Toru originally came up with the idea of naming the game "puck man" but it eventually changed -
The creator
Toru Iwatani was the original mastermind behind the game pac man. He created all the characters based off of japanese cartoons. -
Pac man released
Pac man was developed by Namco -
Pop Culture Icon
It was soon considered a classic at this time -
Released in the US
At this point, it was licensed and distributed by Midway -
Bigger than Start Wars
Surpassed the grossing of star wars making 1 billion dollars in quarters. -
The beginning.
Pacman, the little yellow character, who chased yellow dots and tried to avoid the Ghosts, was originally conceived in the late 1970s before being released in game format in 1980. -
Ms. Pac Man
This was the time ms pac man was created -
Arcade Awards
Best Commercial Arcade Game Award goes to Pac Man -
TV Show
Pac Mans TV show was aired. -
Many Players
the game was also estimated to have had 30 million active players across the United States -
Pac Man goes Gold
their Pac-Man Fever album (1982) also received a Gold certification for selling over a million records -
Young boy; High score
n December 1982, an 8-year-old boy, supposedly received a letter from U.S. President Ronald Reagan congratulating him on a worldwide record of 6,131,940 points -
Pac man 2
The pac man 2: the new adventure was an expansion to the many pac man games before this. -
Maximum Score
the first person to achieve this maximum possible score (3,333,360 points) was Billy Mitchell who performed the feat in about six hours. -
Baby Pac Man
The arcade game of baby pac man was released. -
Pinball Pac man
The Pinball version of pac man came out. -
BEST game ever
in 2001, pac man was voted the greatest game ever. -
World Record
One event called Pac-Manhattan set a Guinness World Record for "Largest Pac-Man Game" in 2004 -
World Champion
in 2007 the first Pacman World Championship was staged in New York City -
Another perfect score
In September 2009, David Race of Beavercreek, Ohio, became the sixth person to achieve a perfect score -
Google Joins Pac man
Google makes pac man their playable logo for the day, -
Pac Man Party
This expansion of the game came out on the Wii in 2010 -
Arcade Games Sold
By 1982, 400,000 arcade machines were sold worldwide.
