Pac-Man

Synopsis

by Brett Alan Weiss

In Pac-Man players guide a yellow, pie-shaped creature around a single maze, munching dots while avoiding four roaming ghosts. Four energizer dots are on the board, one in each corner. Eating one of these special dots will temporarily empower Pac-Man to turn the tables on the ghosts. Each time all the dots in a maze are eaten, play resumes with a fresh screen. Simple four-way control, cute graphics, lively music and addictive munching action make the game enjoyable for males and females of all ages.

Extra Credits

by Brett Alan Weiss

Unquestionably the most popular video game of all time, Pac-Man has gobbled more than $1,000,000,000 in quarters and has been played approximately 10,000,000,000 times. More than 100,000 machines were produced in its first year alone. During the peak of Pac-Man's popularity in the early '80s, the game was accompanied by a Hanna-Barbera cartoon series, a hit song (Pac-Man Fever by Jerry Buckner and Gary Garcia), and a merchandising blitzkrieg consisting of lunch boxes, puzzles, T-shirts, figurines, cereal and much more.

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