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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: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 23 2020, @01:40AM (3 children)
Pacman breakfast cereal! Pacman Saturday morning cartoon! Pacman on the Atari 2600!
Solid '80s!
(Score: 3, Informative) by stretch611 on Saturday May 23 2020, @05:20AM
Pac Man on the Atari 2600 really sucked. Yet I still played.
Back then even my father played it. Even though he constantly broke my joysticks in the process. He would play it constantly (when he wasn't at a bar with a Pac Man or Ms Pac Man machine.) It annoyed me at the time because when he was home he played it a lot until the joystick broke, then I could not use my 2600 until he got me a new one, not to mention not being able to play with my atari at all back then when he hogged the machine.
Now with 5 covid vaccine shots/boosters altering my DNA :P
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 23 2020, @01:49PM
I saw a commercial for Pacman cereal when I visited the US in 1985. Actors clapping their arms together like a Pacman mouth. "You can do it, you can do it with Pacman, Pacman cereal."
Anybody have a video link, would be great to see again.
(Score: 2) by Bot on Monday May 25 2020, @03:09PM
Indeed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XY_ESTnBlS0 [youtube.com]
"Computer games don't affect kids. If Pac-Man had affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in dark rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive electronic music" --Marcus Brigstocke.
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