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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 ...
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 ...
Pac-Man Collection is a 2001 video game compilation developed by Mass Media and published by Namco for the Game Boy Advance.It includes four titles in the Pac-Man series — the original Pac-Man (1980), Pac-Mania (1987), Pac-Attack (1993), and Pac-Man Arrangement (1996), the last of which was originally exclusive to the arcade game Namco Classic Collection Vol. 2.
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
JP: July 1980 [1] WW: December 1980. Genre (s) Maze. Mode (s) 1-2 players alternating turns. Pac-Man, [a] originally called Puck Man in Japan, is a 1980 maze video game developed and released by Namco for arcades. In North America, the game was released by Midway Manufacturing as part of its licensing agreement with Namco America.
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 ...
and "New!". [3] Pac-Man Plus was an upgrade kit for Namco Pac-Man boards. It consisted of a module which connected via a ribbon cable to the socket originally occupied by the Z-80 microprocessor. The module contained its own Z-80 microprocessor as well as additional components. It was potted with epoxy to prevent easy reverse-engineering.
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 ...