Pac-Man is a video game character and main character in the Pac-Man series of games. He was created by a programmer at Namco by the name of Toru Iwatani. Pac-Man is most famous for his first appearance in the arcade game of the same name. He is also Namco's mascot and stars in maze, platformer, and racing games. After his first game, people around the world came to recognize Pac-Man almost more than any video game character. Pac-Man has starred i...
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Pac-Man
Fictional Character
Character Created By
Iwatani Toru
Tōru Iwatani (岩谷 徹, Iwatani Tōru, born January 25, 1955) is a former Japanese video game designer and created one of the most popular arcade games of all time, Pac-Man.
Iwatani was born in the Meguro ward of Tokyo, Japan. He joined the computer software company Namco in 1977, where he started his...
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