![]() The game had been evolving through the last 30 years as it has seen its use being transferred from floppy disks to compact disks then pen drives and finally has been introduced in the android google Play store. Pacman has been a legend in the gaming world as it has passed the test of time by going strong for 30 long years with an amazing number of people still enjoying this game despite minimal use of advanced graphics and sophisticated gameplay. There have been very few games that run for a decade leave alone 30 years. Let’s now read more about Pacman 30th anniversary and how it was celebrated. Pacman became an instant hit and was followed by a number of sequels, merchandise, and even 2 hit tv series made over the Pacman theme,įurther, you might be astonished to know that the character Pacman is the official mascot of Bandai Namco Entertainment which is a money-making franchise generating $14 billion annually. The developer gave special attention to making the in-game characters cute and colorful to get younger players to play it. ![]() The original inspiration for the game’s character was a pizza with a slice removed but it then moved close to the Japanese character Kuchi. The development of the Pacman began in 1979 with a 9-member team under the guidance of Toru Iwatani. The game was developed with a thought process of attracting gamers of both genders as opposed to early video games which were male-centric and involved war, fighting, and violence and were not quite the games females usually like to play. One can eat the colored ghosts for bonus points if they can find and eat large flashing pellets called power pellets which leads to the change in color of the ghosts to blue indicating you can eat them and earn bonus points for that. Pacman has several lives and if it’s eaten by a ghost it is one life is lost the game continues till all lives of the Pacman are not lost.Īs the level increases the speed of the colored ghosts increases but as one reaches level 256 it becomes impossible to cross as due to an integer overflow the 256 th level gameplay is not smooth and loads shabbily. ![]() The levels are indicated by fruit-shaped icons at the bottom of the screen. Pacman is a level-based game and as you eat all the dots without getting caught by the chasing ghosts you can advance to the next level which is more difficult than the previous. The gameplay involves one controlling the Pacman to traverse the maze and gobble up all the dots while avoiding 4 enemies or colored ghosts which are Blinky (red in color), Pinky (pink colored), Inly (Cyan colored), and Clyde (orange colored). It’s a maze action-based video game and was developed by a Japanese company called Namco for arcades and later released by Midway manufacturing in North America. Pacman is a video game which is originally called Pluck man in Japan the country of its original inception. What is Pacman / pacman doodle / Google Pacman ? Recently as google introduced it in the Google Play store the game’s success has been growing sky high.īy now I know all the Pacman gamers might be interested to know more about this famous game so we have prepared this exclusive content covering the Pacman 30 th Anniversary and many more upcoming details you would like to know about. Pacman was originally introduced to the world of gaming in the 1980s and since then has been one of the most loved and famous games to be played. On May 21, 2010, the day Pacman the famous and probably the first graphic user interface-based game turned 30, Google decided to put it on its homepage as a google doodle game. Google brought this famous childhood game in 2010 on its 30 th anniversary and promoted the game during the covid imposed lockdown through doodles asking people to safely stay at home and pass time by reliving their memories by playing Pacman. While I grew up one of the favorite games I liked to play was the Pacman.
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