Pac-Man facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Pac-Man |
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The classic Pac-Man
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| Developer(s) | Namco |
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| Designer(s) | Toru Iwatani |
| Programmer(s) | Shigeo Funaki |
| Composer(s) | Toshio Kai |
| Series | Pac-Man |
| Platform(s) | Arcade, Apple II, Atari 2600, Atari 5200, Atari 8-bit, Commodore 64, VIC-20, IBM PC, Intellivision, TI-99/4A, ZX Spectrum, NES, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Game Gear, Neo Geo Pocket Color |
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| Genre(s) | Maze |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
| Cabinet | Standard upright, mini-upright and cocktail |
| Arcade system | Namco Pac-Man |
| CPU | 1 × Z80 @ 3.072 MHz |
| Sound | Namco WSG (three-channel mono) |
| Display | Vertically oriented, 224 × 288, 16 palette colors |
Pac-Man is an arcade video game that was made by Namco. It was released in 1980, and became very popular in the history of games.
In Pac-Man, the player makes a Pac-Man, a yellow disc, move around a maze. The goal is to eat every yellow pellet (circles) while not getting caught by the ghosts/monsters. For extra points, fruits that appear can also be eaten. When Pac-Man eats a white pellet, the ghosts turn blue and can be eaten. Even though the game has 256 stages, the last level can not be finished due to a problem with the creation of the game.
The game is called Puck Man in Japan. The game was named Pac-Man in the United States so that nobody could change the "P" to "F". There were many sequels and remakes based on the game. Hanna-Barbera made a animated TV show airing on ABC in the early 1970s. The game was also part of Namco Museum games. There is a Namco Museum Remix for the Wii.
Images for kids
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In-game screenshot. The four ghosts are in the center of the screen with Pac-Man situated underneath them. To the bottom is the player's life count and the level icon (represented in this case by a cherry), to the top is the player's score.
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Creator of Pac-Man, Toru Iwatani, at the 2011 Game Developers Conference
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Pac-Man interactive exposition at The Art of Video Games
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See also
In Spanish: Pac-Man para niños
