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Tōru Iwatani (岩谷 徹, Iwatani Tōru, born January 25, 1955) is a Japanese video game designer who spent much of his career working for Namco.He is best known as the creator of the arcade game Pac-Man (1980).
Pac-Man (1980) became Namco's biggest success, selling over 400,000 arcade units in the United States alone and becoming one of the highest-grossing video games of all time. [11] It was designed by one of Namco's new hires, Toru Iwatani , with Nakamura suggesting the game be named after the sound the character made while eating, "paku paku". [ 12 ]
Creator of Pac-Man, Toru Iwatani, at the 2011 Game Developers Conference. The Japanese video game industry had surged in popularity with games such as Space Invaders and Breakout, which led to the market being flooded with similar titles from other manufacturers in an attempt to cash in on the success.
Christmas Comes to Pac-Land In this Christmas special, Pac-Man and his family help Santa Claus (voiced by Peter Cullen) after he crash lands in Pac-Land (after the reindeer were startled by the floating eyes of the Ghost Monsters after Pac-Man, Ms. Pac-Man and Pac-Baby chomped them). Mezmeron was the only character from the cartoon that is not ...
Frye's Pac-Man port was started in May 1981, [citation needed] and was the most anticipated release for 1982, so marketing pressed Frye to produce the game on a very strict timetable (lead times on the cartridge ROMs was several months, so the code needed to be completed in September 1981 to get the product into stores during the first quarter ...
James Rado, co-creator of the groundbreaking hippie musical “Hair,” which celebrated protest, pot and free love and paved the way for the sound of rock on Broadway, has died.
William James Mitchell Jr. (born July 16, 1965) is an American video game player. He achieved fame throughout the 1980s and 1990s by claiming numerous records on classic video games, including a perfect score on Pac-Man.
This exclusive, rare interview with the man himself gives you an insight into just how brilliant a visionary he was. However, Disney made an impact in another (little-known) way, as well.