Pac-Man

Pac-Man is a arcade game manufactured and released by Namco in 1980.

Gameplay
It is a maze game where you'd would eat all the pellets on the maze, while running away from 4 ghosts


 * Blinky
 * Pinky
 * Inky
 * Clyde

To kill the ghosts, you would eat "Power Pellets" that can kill ghosts on the maze, after ate, the eyes of the ghosts would rush back to their home-base, to quickly go from one side to the other size of a maze, you would use a warp tunnel, ghost can go through them to, through out the maze, fruit like cherries, oranges can boost your score, also having a high score can get you a 1-UP.

The more you play, the more the difficult the game gets harder, with ghosts speeding up, power pellet will decrease into time.

Success
The game released in 1980 and quickly became one of the biggest arcade games ever, as of "Tori Iwatani" wanting the game to attract to women more, as of this, the game became the top grossing game of 1980, the game was critically acclaimed from critics and fans.

The game got so big, a cartoon of the series was created by Hanna Barbara during the early 1980's. After the game released, ports released, such as a Atari 2600, 5200 and 7800 version, it released on computers on the Apple II, and the Commodore 64. it released on the Intellevision, it later released on the Nintendo Entertainment System and the Famicon, on the GameBoy, it was also released on the ZX Spectrum, it was on Sega consoles, such as the Game Gear, Sega Genesis and on the DreamCast, it was released on the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, and Game Boy Colour and Game Boy Advance, on the Playstation consoles, it was released on the Playstation, 2, 3, 4, and 5, it was on the Nintendo 64, it was on the Neo Geo Pocket Colour, it was released on the DS, Xbox 360 and Wii U, and it's on the Xbox One and Nintendo Switch, it is on Android and IOS.

Trivia

 * It is one of the first games to have power-ups, which was a new concept at the time.
 * At the time, the game had the longest development time, which it has 1 year and 5 months.


 * During the 30th anniversary, they released a browser game that would be played on the main Google page, you can still play it.




 * The 256th level of the game is impossible, since half of the screen is cover with data, numbers and cropped graphics.
 * They was a board game that released in 1982, the game was similar to the arcade game, however you'd had to get the most pellets, over other family/friend members.