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The creator of pac man was born
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Toru originally came up with the idea of naming the game "puck man" but it eventually changed
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Toru Iwatani was the original mastermind behind the game pac man. He created all the characters based off of japanese cartoons.
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Pac man was developed by Namco
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It was soon considered a classic at this time
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At this point, it was licensed and distributed by Midway
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Surpassed the grossing of star wars making 1 billion dollars in quarters.
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Pacman, the little yellow character, who chased yellow dots and tried to avoid the Ghosts, was originally conceived in the late 1970s before being released in game format in 1980.
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This was the time ms pac man was created
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Best Commercial Arcade Game Award goes to Pac Man
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Pac Mans TV show was aired.
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the game was also estimated to have had 30 million active players across the United States
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their Pac-Man Fever album (1982) also received a Gold certification for selling over a million records
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n December 1982, an 8-year-old boy, supposedly received a letter from U.S. President Ronald Reagan congratulating him on a worldwide record of 6,131,940 points
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The pac man 2: the new adventure was an expansion to the many pac man games before this.
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the first person to achieve this maximum possible score (3,333,360 points) was Billy Mitchell who performed the feat in about six hours.
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The arcade game of baby pac man was released.
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The Pinball version of pac man came out.
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in 2001, pac man was voted the greatest game ever.
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One event called Pac-Manhattan set a Guinness World Record for "Largest Pac-Man Game" in 2004
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in 2007 the first Pacman World Championship was staged in New York City
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In September 2009, David Race of Beavercreek, Ohio, became the sixth person to achieve a perfect score
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Google makes pac man their playable logo for the day,
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This expansion of the game came out on the Wii in 2010
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By 1982, 400,000 arcade machines were sold worldwide.
