Amazon is featuring an animated game of Pac-man on their front page to honor the 35th anniversary of the classic video game, and Google has also revived their interactive Pac-Man doodle from five years ago, making it their top result for searches on "Pacman". A free Android version of the game is available in both the Google and Amazon app stores, and Amazon is also discounting newer versions like "Championship Edition" and "Pac-Man Museum" games. The original Pac-Man game was created by 24-year-old programmer Toru Iwatani in 1979, and today CBS News marked the anniversary by joking that now "Pac-Man is 35. And he's still hungry."
(Score: 3, Interesting) by yankprintster on Saturday May 23 2015, @08:15PM
Atari 2600 Pac-Man ROM was 4 kilobytes. The free version mentioned in the summary available on Google Play for Android is 52.42 megabytes, or over 13,000 times larger. Sure it contains some bonus levels and bonus items and other things, but it just makes me smile that so much fun could be packed into such small programs back in the late 70's and 80's.