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  2. Pac-Man - Wikipedia

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    Pac-Man, originally called Puck Man [a] in Japan, is a 1980 maze video game developed and published by Namco for arcades.In North America, the game was released by Midway Manufacturing as part of its licensing agreement with Namco America.

  3. Golden age of arcade video games - Wikipedia

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    The most successful arcade game companies of this era included Taito (which ushered in the golden age with the shooter game Space Invaders [4] and produced other successful arcade action games such as Gun Fight and Jungle King), Namco (the Japanese company that created Galaxian, Pac-Man, Pole Position and Dig Dug) and Atari (the company that ...

  4. Pac-Man (franchise) - Wikipedia

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    Pac-Man is an American animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions and it is the first series based on the franchise. It premiered on ABC and ran for 44 episodes over two seasons from September 25, 1982, to November 5, 1983. It was the first cartoon based on a video game.

  5. History of Texas - Wikipedia

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    During the American Revolution, Texas and the Tejanos helped the Americans in the fights in British West Florida. Unlike East Florida, Texas supported U.S. independence by also fighting in New Orleans and other campaigns in the Gulf of Mexico. [63] In 1799, Spain gave Louisiana back to France in exchange for the promise of a throne in central ...

  6. Arcade video game - Wikipedia

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    Though Pac-Man was the best-selling game on the VCS, it eroded consumer confidence in Atari's games and partially contributed to the 1983 crash. [ 38 ] The need for arcade conversions began to wane as arcade game manufacturers like Nintendo, Sega, and SNK entered the home console market and used similar technology within their home consoles as ...

  7. Ms. Pac-Man - Wikipedia

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    Ms. Pac-Man was originally conceived as an enhancement kit for Pac-Man called Crazy Otto, created by programmers employed at the General Computer Corporation (GCC). [5] While Crazy Otto was in development, GCC settled a lawsuit with Atari, Inc. over their Missile Command conversion kit Super Missile Attack. Part of the settlement terms barred ...

  8. How Mad Magazine's humor created a revolution

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    The humor magazine that began in 1952 as a comic book making fun of other comic books soon became an institution for mocking authority in all spheres of life, from TV, movies and advertising, to ...

  9. Tengen (company) - Wikipedia

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    Tengen Inc. was an American video game publisher and developer that was created by the arcade game manufacturer Atari Games for publishing computer and console games. It had a Japanese subsidiary named Tengen Ltd. (株式会社テンゲン, Kabushiki-gaisha Tengen).