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looorg writes:

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?

Original Submission

1. "looorg" - https://soylentnews.org/~looorg/
2. "a playable clone" - https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/05/after-watching-50000-hours-of-pac-man-nvidias-ai-generated-a-playable-clone/
3. "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=41168

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