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PAC-MAN was first publicly tested on May 22, 1980 and — now at 40 years old — is middle-age today. Celebrate with his wife and offspring:
Born on May 22, 1980, PAC-MAN immediately rose to meteoric popularity, first in video game arcades, then through an array of branding and entertainment appearances. With a brand recognition rate of 90% around the world, PAC-MAN's image is one of the most recognized on the planet and is as strong as ever as he enters his 40th year of entertaining fans of all ages.
[Ed addition: NVidia has taken this occasion to reveal it trained an AI with 50,000 hours of Pac-Man play. Not necessarily to play it, but instead to create a playable clone that was pretty close to the original.]
So take this opportunity to share some of your Pacman-memories?
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Phoenix666 on Friday May 22 2020, @11:33PM
Pacman always bored me. The song Pacman Fever was fun, though.
Other games of that time interested me more. Asteroids and Defender were fun, but my absolute favorite of the era was Joust. But I didn't have an unlimited supply of quarters, so I spent most of my video game time playing Atari. Later in high school we got good enough at Gondomania and Double Dragon to finish them on one quarter.
We could not have dreamed of games like Grand Theft Auto then. Our heads would have exploded if we'd seen them.
Washington DC delenda est.