It also would create massive spinoff products and an amazing/awful song called “Pac-Man Fever”. It won the best commercial game at the 1981 Arcade Awards (which were a real thing) and is considered one of the most important games ever made.
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Pac-Man made so much money, just in the first year, that it surpassed the income of any movie made before it – even Star Wars.īy the end of 18 months, it was estimated that 7 billion freaking quarters had been used to play Pac-Man. It can’t be understated how massive this thing was. If you convert that for today it’s around $2.6 billion for sales and income generated by quarters. Each unit went for around $2600 and they would sell around 400,000 of them. It would overtake Asteroids as the best-selling arcade game in American history and apparently grossed $1 Billion in quarters which is just insane to think about. The popularity took everyone by surprise – especially distributors7 and other competitors. It quickly became more popular than any video game in history and at one point upwards of 30 million people were using it in 1982. It actually didn’t have a massive response in Japan but caught on like wildfire in North America. So Pac-Man is an obvious success or we wouldn’t be here discussing it nearly 40 years later. You can imagine what kids would have scratched out on the arcade cabinets to change that to… The Success Of Pac-Man Either way, Pac-Man was brought to the world with midway making the smart move of changing the name from Puck-Man. He also made the ghosts look “cute” to further appeal to girls. Not that the guys in the arcades would know what to say to them.Īpparently the iconic image of Pac-Man was designed after the creator, Toru Iwatini saw a pizza with a slice missing. Up to then, video games were primarily for the bros, and it was thought that a game that had universal appeal would bring in more of the ladies. The development of the game started in 1979 with the intent of appealing to both men and women. Pac-Man started out in Japan as Puck Man but was released in North America as Pac-Man by Midway games. Those traits being shadowy, speed, bashfulness, and pokey. Interesting, however, each of the ghosts not only has a name but a personality trait. He is trying to avoid getting eaten by four ghosts who actually have names: The Pac-Man video game was created by Namco in 1980 and is just a yellow pie with a slice missing eating a bunch of dots in a maze.
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If you for some reason need an update on what Pac-Man was I would like to welcome you back to civilization and hope your time being raised by wolves was uplifting and joyous. Setting The Stage For The Pac-Man Cartoon The Pac-Man cartoon is an interesting story as it took a different approach compared to most cartoons of the 80s. The simple dot eating Pac-Man took the world by storm and, of course, would lead to a cartoon series.
There was no way not to know of the Pac-Man video game as it was -and is- one of the biggest games in history. I just barely remember the Pac-Man cartoon as I was only around 5 years old at the time. It was based on the successful Pac-Man game, came out in 1982 and ran for 44 episodes.
The Pac-Man cartoon was put out by Hanna-Barbara and aired on ABC. When something rises in massive popularity, you need to exploit in in every way possible and that’s what happened when Atari had a huge hit on their hands and released the Pac-Man cartoon.
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