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The ghosts were created by Toru Iwatani, who was the head designer for the original Pac-Man arcade game. The idea for the ghosts was made from Iwatani's desire to create a video game that could attract women and younger players, particularly couples, at a time where most video games were "war"-type games or Space Invaders clones.
Pac-Man, originally called Puck Man [a] in Japan, is a 1980 maze video game developed and released by Namco for arcades.In North America, the game was released by Midway Manufacturing as part of its licensing agreement with Namco America.
These are characters from the Pac-Man games. Pages in category "Pac-Man characters" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. ... Ghosts (Pac-Man) M ...
This cabinet includes 6 Pac-Man Games: Pac-Man, Ms. Pac-Man, Pac-Man Plus, Super Pac-Man, Pac & Pal & Pac-Mania along with 26 other non-Pac-Man Namco games. There are 3 versions of this cabinet, a Coin-Op version for Arcades, and both a Cabaret and Chill version for homes. Like Pac-Man's Arcade Party, only the home cabinets contain Ms. Pac-Man.
A new feature to this game allows Pac-Man to jump over the ghosts to evade capture. It is the ninth title in the Pac-Man video game series and was the last one developed for arcades up until the release of Pac-Man Arrangement in 1996. Development was directed by Pac-Man creator Toru Iwatani. It was licensed to Atari Games for release in North ...
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Unlike Pac-Man, most home versions of Ms. Pac-Man include all three intermission screens from the arcade game. The Atari 2600 rendition of Pac-Man was infamous for its flashing ghosts, while the 2600 port of Ms. Pac-Man had minimal flicker. A tabletop version of Ms. Pac-Man was released in 1983 by Coleco.
Pac-Man is a 1982 maze video game developed and published by Atari, Inc. under official license by Namco, and an adaptation of the 1980 arcade game Pac-Man. The player controls the title character, who attempts to consume all of the wafers in a maze while avoiding four ghosts that pursue him. Eating flashing wafers at the corners of the screen ...