Pac-Man (Pac-Man) was originally called Pakkuman, and it originated from the pronunciation of "Pac-Man" paku-pakutaberu.

paku-paku represents the movement and sound of the mouth opening and closing, vividly depicting the attitude of life of "I eat, so I am there".

Pac-Man’s shape evolved from a corner of pizza. It can be said that this is a great victory for a “foodie”!

Its future achievements are also amazing—

Selected as the "most famous game character" of Guinness World Record Player Edition 2010;

In 2005, it was named "the most successful arcade game" by Guinness;

One of only three games collected in the HSD National Archives;

The recognition among American players is 94%, ranking champion;

According to incomplete statistics, more than 1 billion people played Pac-Man in the 20th century!

Such achievements are unique in the history of world games!

Therefore, this yellow bean-eating elf has been used by Namco as the company's mascot and banner in later generations and has been used to this day.

On May 22, 2010, on the 30th birthday of Pac Man, Google specially designed the logo on the homepage "Google" as a Pac Man game screen to commemorate it.

As a result, this grand celebration eventually led to the loss of work hours totaling about 5 million hours and a loss of production efficiency totaling about 120 million US dollars because of employees playing the game.

This shows how much influence this game has in the world.

In fact, it was just a female-oriented game at first. In order to allow girls to go to those dirty and unpleasant arcade games halls in the 1980s, Pac-Man has a theme that can make girls very cute and heart-warming: Eating candy.

"Girls all like to eat desserts!" Game designer Toru Iwatani thought so, but found that the beans were all fat people, and they were all men.

But it is undeniable that this is a game that is suitable for both young and old, and both men and women.

This game, which is only 24K in size, has embraced the youth of more than 1 billion people so far.

Even the reason why the villain ghost in Pac Man is colorful is because the boss of Namco was not sure which color would please the players, so he held a democratic vote among the employees, and the voting results were announced in the game, so that players who heard this story unanimously believed that Namco was a color-blind team at that time...

More importantly, this mini-game that was actually not good at the beginning of the release not only swept the world beyond everyone's expectations, directly ending the shooting game craze triggered by "Space Invaders", but also incredibly "eat" a huge game empire.

When Pac-Man achieved unexpected success on the arcade, Namco immediately decided to cooperate with Atari, the world's most well-known home game console manufacturer at that time to transplant Pac-Man to the Atari2600, the most popular home game console in the world at that time, in order to completely conquer all players.

But no one expected that "Pac-Man" would have completely destroyed the home game console market at that time.

The reason is very simple. Because the marketing department of Atari Company was too eager to try to release the game early, it asked the company's main programmer Todd Furley to be responsible for transplanting the game. Who would have thought that Furley could do the same as Zhuge Liang, and had a porting beta version before the task was issued. Of course, this was just a programmer who had nothing to do and was free to play.

When transplanting the game, the difference in imaging between vertical screen arcade and horizontal screen TV was not taken into account. It simply changed the world. As a result, the same game turned around at 90° and became completely different.

However, what is even more tragic is that after Atari tried to make the game available in the Christmas season in 1981, he developed a formal work on this incomplete version, but did not modify the original problems!

In addition, the performance of home game consoles does not reach the sound and display effects of the original arcade, so a weird "Pac-Man" that always flashes and shines on the screen was born.

The player was spoofed because of his beloved Pac-Man, and his visual tolerance was challenged. In addition, he had no choice but tolerated his old grudges about Atari and began to choose to spoof Atari indirectly.

In order to meet the sales boom, Atari produced 12 million Pac-Man cartridges in one go, but as a result, 5 million became inventory, causing huge losses.

Originally, Atari planned to use classic games to drive the sales of game consoles, but the game consoles were not sold out, and he was knocked over to the ground by a huge backlog.

This weird version of Pac-Man, along with E.T. Alien and other inferior games from third-party producers, became one of the causes of the collapse of the North American home machine market in 1983.

Because these games destroy ordinary users' loyalty to Atari and even the entire home computer game industry.

In this way, the players' revenge made Atari, the global gaming console overlord, come to an end at its most glorious moment, thus giving the rising star Nintendo's FC an excellent opportunity to rise.

Of course, Atari's failure does not mean that Pac-Man has failed. On the contrary, this reflects the players' love, so some people say that the success of Nintendo FC is that Pac-Man is delicious and fun after it is transplanted.

From then on, various Pac-Man have always been the standard equipment for gaming equipment, and this love has lasted for 30 years.

It can be said that this is a game that is not inferior to Tetris and is also a great one!

It is also the trump card that Huo Wenjun took it out to blow up the whole world!

Of course, "Pac-Man" began research and development as early as 1979 and was officially launched in 1980. Although the results were not good at the beginning, gold would never be buried. It soon showed its kingly posture, sweeping the world, and it was out of control.

However, this is all the original history. In this parallel plane, this classic game is like Atari, which should have collapsed and disappeared from history. It was affected by the butterfly effect and was slapped by the butterfly wings of South American butterflies.

Huo Wenjun carefully investigated and finally confirmed that "Pac-Man" does not exist in this world.

Perhaps it was because Atari's "Pac-Man" was hard-pressed on the original historical trajectory that the game empire that he played himself to death was finally lucky enough to escape.

Of course, no one knows whether the fact is this, and Huo Wenjun doesn't care about it. As long as he knows that there is no "Pac-Man" in this world, he can use it directly.

From now on, "Pac Man" will also belong to legendary technology, and together with "Legendary Square", create the glory of legendary technology!
Chapter completed!