It was 30 years ago the world went pixel crazy over that pie-chart looking yellow circle with a piece missing for a mouth. Hours of sweaty button bashing, sipping down a gallon of Pepsi and inserting coin after coin into the machine just to get on the score bored in the local arcade. Well we can safely say games have moved on a lot since the 80’s, but the game still lives on in the hearts of gamers and is among the most famous and significant arcade games of all time...
Although Tōru Iwatani's Pac-Man and Ms Pac-Man are now free "casual" games, they were state-of-the-art in the early 1980s, and they harvested billions of dollars in loose change. The games soon appeared on home computers, too, though a Pac-Man cartridge for an Atari 800 cost more than £30.Ms Pac-Man was also one of the first video games to attract a female following at a time when most players were spotty teenage boys.
Here at Spinning Hat we wanted to share our love for Pac-Man that it deserves as a ground-breaking innovation in the gaming world. Why not take 5 minutes out of your busy day to relax and relive the 80’s nostalgia by playing Pac-man for real!
PLAY PAC-MAN!
Our team had a little in house competition as well to see who could get the best score. Our gaming geek director Damon managed to rack up an impressive 110,290. Let us know if you beat him!
Tom
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