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posted by martyb on Friday May 22 2020, @08:42PM   Printer-friendly
from the wakka-wakka-wakka-wakka dept.

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:

https://www.pacman.com/en/:

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?


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 23 2020, @05:29PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 23 2020, @05:29PM (#998196)

    There was no such thing as video game arcades until years after PAC-MAN came out. There were many penny (pinball) arcades around, but PAC-MAN mostly debuted at Pizza-Hut for 25 cents a game.