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Toru Iwatani (game scenario)
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22 May 1980 (Japan)
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The original title was intended to be "Puck-Man", until marketers realized that materials used to promote the game could be vandalized by having a portion of the letter "P" removed, completely changing the way the name is read.
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Referenced in "South Park: Imaginationland: Episode III (#11.12)" (2007)
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Is it just me or is Pac-Man a metaphor for taking too many ecstasy pills? Think about it, you've got some happy little face stumbling around in the dark munching as many pills as he can get but when things go bad he's chased by ghosts all over the place until he can get more pills. Either this is really subliminal subtext by designer Toru Iwatani or it's just an amazing coincidence and I'm reading far too much into it.
Either way Pac-Man is like THE biggest ever arcade game, which is quite amazing since many more advanced and technologically superior games came out after this. And it has one funky little theme tune!