The ‘father of Pac-Man’ dies: The man who came up with the name for iconic 1980s arcade [tr]

UK Daily Mail ^ | January 30, 2017 | Gareth Davies

[C19fan]

The Father of Pac-Man Masaya Nakamura, who pioneered the release of Pac-Man and founded the Japanese video game company behind the iconic game, has died at the age of 91. Nakamura, who died on January 22, founded Namco in 1955, which started out as just two mechanical horse rides on a department store rooftop but went on to pioneer game arcades and amusement parks. Pac-Man, designed by Namco engineer and video game maker Toru Iwatani, went on sale in 1980, and has since been played an estimated 10billion times.

[ETL]

correction: it was regular horse racing, not steeplechase.

[Boogieman]

[Impala64ssa]

I remember when Pong first came out. The local bowling alley had one. It was high tech back then.

[Impala64ssa]

I got Pac Man fever

[ETL]

Yes, that was another simple but lots of fun early video game. I still prefer many of these old games over the ridiculously complex ones of the past 15-20 years. My favorite games were from Intellivision. Atari also had many good ones.

[boop]

Interesting.

. Not too long ago there was a man who took Pac-Man to the end of the program.

At a certain point, half of the screen goes blank so you cannot advance further.

So you can in theory "beat" Pac-Man, or at least call it a draw.

[Muntic0re]

It’s sad news. I am a huge fan of this game. I love small games in general. Often play on http://www.friv5online.com/ . Pac man and Mario games are legends.