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Years active. 1980–present. Known for. Creator of Pac-Man. Tōru Iwatani (岩谷 徹, Iwatani Tōru, born January 25, 1955) is a Japanese video game designer who spent much of his career working for Namco. He is best known as the creator of the arcade game Pac-Man (1980). In 2009, he was chosen by IGN as one of the top 100 game creators of ...
Four games were released as part of the line: Dig Dug, Galaga, Ms. Pac-Man, and Pac-Man. A retail disc containing three of the Arcade Game Series games (Pac-Man, Galaga, and Dig Dug) compiled with Pac-Man Championship Edition 2 was released for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on November 1, 2016 in North America. See also
Pac-Man Championship Edition 2 received "generally favorable" reviews from critics according to Metacritic.. Re-releases Pac-Man Championship Edition 2 + Arcade Game Series. A retail disc for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One containing Pac-Man Championship Edition 2 compiled with three games from the Arcade Game Series (Pac-Man, Galaga, and Dig Dug) was released for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on ...
Pac-Man is a fictional character and the titular protagonist of the video game franchise of the same name.Created by Toru Iwatani, he first appeared in the arcade game Pac-Man (1980), and has since appeared in more than 30 licensed sequels and spin-offs for multiple platforms, and spawning mass amounts of merchandise in his image, including two television series and a hit single by Buckner ...
The original Pac-Man, for instance, was wonderfully algebraic in its simplicity: An animated yellow dot scoots around a maze, gobbling up (or running away from) pursuing ghosts. Pac-Man 2: The New Adventures is a Super Mario-type action game hampered by what Namco calls its 'character guidance interface.' Players can't control Pac directly ...
A similar cabinet was released in 2005 that featured Pac-Man as the centerpiece. Pac-Man 2: The New Adventures (1993) and Pac-Man World 2 (2002) have Pac-Man as an unlockable extra. Alongside the Xbox 360 remake Pac-Man Championship Edition, it was ported to the Nintendo 3DS in 2012 as part of Pac-Man & Galaga Dimensions.
Single player. Pac-Man Championship Edition DX [a] is a 2010 maze video game published by Namco Bandai Games for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, later ported to Steam and iOS. It is the sequel to the 2007 game Pac-Man Championship Edition, which was the last game developed by series creator Toru Iwatani. The player controls Pac-Man as he must ...
EU: December 1, 2010. NA: February 1, 2011. Genre (s) Maze. Mode (s) Single player. Pac-Man Championship Edition [a] is a 2007 maze video game developed and published by Namco Bandai Games for the Xbox 360. It has since appeared on several other platforms, including iOS, Android, and the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable as a PSP mini ...