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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: 4, Insightful) by looorg on Saturday May 23 2020, @12:31AM
I can't really say that have a lot of, or any, fond memories of Pacman. In the small town I grew up in it didn't come into the local arcade until the late 80's -- they mostly had pinball machines and then they slowly started with a Defender, Space Invaders and such and then they sort of skipped the 'pacman-generation' and went straight to the next with Outrun, Double Dragon etc when the time came. When they eventually got a Pacman cabinet it was already kind of old compared to some of the other games.
I had played it some on various home computer systems and thought it was ok but I don't think I ever really saw the "greatness" in Pacman at the time, not really later either for that matter.