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Pac Man History

  • Pac Man Creation

    Pac Man Creation
    Pac Man made his first apparition on arcades in 1979 in Japan under the title of Puck Man, derivatives of PakuPaku japanese that denote the action of open and close the mouth.
  • The leap to the big audience

    The leap to the big audience
    The game, created by Tohru Iwanati for the japanese company Namco, made his reléase in Japan and has a legendary succes soon with 100,000 sold units in that year.
  • March back in its evolution

    March back in its evolution
    Pac Man returned to 2D in 1993 with the launch of Gameboy PacAttack, a fun mix of Tetris and Pac Man. The inclution of Pac Man in the Gameboy, which is a portable videogame console, gave him the enough impulse for his popularity in that time. Withouth a doubt Pac Man has been one of the most pupular games of the history.
  • The appearance of new characters.

    The appearance of new characters.
    Super PacMan, More PacMan and then Pac and Pal, Junior PacMan PacMan and the professor enter the scene as characters in the game.
  • PAC – IN – TIME LAUNCH

    PAC – IN – TIME LAUNCH
    1995 will be the year of the launch of Pac-in-time, in a Game Boy platform game.
  • Unsuccessful attempts to innovate pacman.

    Unsuccessful attempts to innovate pacman.
    Pacman grows little by little in the market with the launch of PacMania, available on Megadrive and NES. Namco is trying to innovate this 3D game, including the ability to give PacMan the ability to jump, but the game has a lot of bugs.
  • Pac Man 20th anniversary

    Pac Man 20th anniversary
    Pac-Man World: 20th Anniversary is a 1999 3D platform video game developed and published for the PlayStation by Namco. Controlling Pac-Man, the player must complete each of the six worlds in the game, with five stages each, collecting a certain amount of buckshot to open an exit door. The plot follows Pac-Man's enemies, the ghosts, crashing his 20th birthday and kidnapping his friends to take them to their homeland of Ghost Island.
  • Pac Man World II

    Pac Man World II
    Pac-Man World 2 is a video game in the Pac-Man series, created in 2002 by Namco. The protagonist is a completely 3-D character.
    Long ago, an evil spirit named Spooky sowed and spread terror in Pac-Land, and he was only defeated when young horseman Sir Pac-A lot locked him in a tree in the center when he annexed the five Golden Fruits.
  • Pac Man and Namco

    Pac Man and Namco
    Pac-Man Arrangement is a 2005 video game, initially released as part of the Namco Museum Battle Collection compilation for the PSP. It shares its name with a very similar Pac-Man game from a decade prior - to avoid confusion, some later rereleases were renamed to Pac-Man Remix.
  • Pac Man 30th anniversary

    Pac Man 30th anniversary
    Pac-Man Party is a video game for the Wii, developed by TOSE and published by Namco Bandai Games in 2010. It was released for Pac-Man's 30th anniversary, and kickstarted the "Pac is Back" reboot of the Pac-Man series. While checking the mail one day, Pac-Man found a letter from Mr. Cookie, the manager of the Cookie Factory, saying that a thief is planning to steal his recipe to a batch of extra-powerful Power Cookies.
  • Pac Man 35th anniversary

    Pac Man 35th anniversary
    In 2014 the 35th anniversary of the launch of the game was celebrated but no special was released. they only congratulated on the pac man party game that was released for wii.