Pac-Man Fever!

In 1982, at the peak of Pac-Man FEVER Pac-Man is the best-selling coin-operated game in history. Forget Street Fighter 2 and Tetris. In the game's debut year alone, over 100,000 Pac-Man machines were made and sold around the world.

Pac-Man was originally released by Namco in Japan under the name 'Puck-Man' in 1980. The name comes from paku-paku - a Japanese term used to describe the sound of eating. It does not mean to eat as some authorities claim. The game was distributed in the US under the familiar name by Midway the same year.

In the past, it may have been a character or theme from a movie, cartoon or even a comic strip. What makes it "hot" is that people not only pay to experience the original, but long for mementos of the experience, licensed mementos that can bring lots of income to the licensee in sales, and to the licensor in royalties. T-shirts, coffee mugs, bumper stickers, bed sheets. . . they all bear the likeness of the starring character.

But when the star is a video game creature, in addition to the key chains, novelty telephones, and stuffed dolls, you get versions of the game itself that you can bring into your own home.

And so it is with Pac-Man, the arcade game hit of 1981, a game that was still attracting truckloads of quarters well into 1982. A few home video and electronic game makers are hoping those arcade quarters can be converted into dollars--dollars spent on home adaptations of what may be the all-time favorite arcade game.

Next time you take that first slice of pizza or cake remember that what you leave behind is a hungry mouth - so watch your back. The idea of food that eats things instead of being eaten was the inspiration for Pac-Man's familiar shape.

Here's some of my small collection of Pac-Man stuff from toys to what ever and I cant fit all in one poster so this should give you some idea how crasy we 80s kid was back then

And to make this even more Pac-Crazy here's two links of files of both MP3 and Zip of Pac-Man Fever Song.
(Reemeber its in a very Low-Quality of the file size in order to for space reson)

HAPPY 25th Birthday to Pac Man!!!

Pac-Man Fever (MP3) File.
Pac-Man Fever (ZIP) File.