pac-man

 Pac-Man (known in Japanese with the name Pakkuman or パックマン) is a video game created by Tohru Iwatani for the Namco company, and being distributed to the American market by Midway Games. Originally produced for Arcade in the early 1980s, became one of the most popular games at the moment, with versions for different consoles and sequels to many others, including today. The mechanics of the game is simple: the player was a round head with a mouth that opens and closes, positioned in a simple maze filled with pellets and 4 ghosts that haunted him. The goal was to eat all the pellets without being reached by ghosts in progressive pace of difficulty.
The original game has yielded many versions for the 2600 (as "Mrs. Pacman" and "Pacman Jr.", plus other unrelated but followed the same style), and then to several other consoles and computer. Currently there are versions in 3 dimensions, other style "adventure", always going back to the character round and hungry from the original game and its ghosts pursuers.

History
In 1980, Toru Iwatani, a designer at Namco, wanted to invent a video game different from the "shoot-em-ups" (shoot-them), who resembled a drawing-excited.
The idea of ​​the original design occurred during a dinner with friends, and it should be a pizza without a slice, which resembled an open mouth; 3 4 well have originated with a character inspired by Paku a popular character in Japan known for its appetite . The character set and had the name Puck-Man, the Japanese term paku-paku, meaning someone's mouth to open and close. In 1980, Bally bought the rights in the United States, the game became famous in the following year.
In the game players control Puckman in order to eat all the balls (or pads) that are scattered in a maze while avoiding four ghosts (the Galaxians) 'blinky', 'pinky', inky 'and' Clyde ' , escaping from a prison. In each corner of the playing area are larger inserts that allow pac-man hunt ghosts, instead of being hunted for a short period of time.
The name was changed to Pac-Man, discouraging change the letter 'p' for 'f' (one in English slang).
The game was one of the most popular, being the first video game that resulted in a mass merchandising, with shirts, jackets, pants, coffee cups, cuddly, sheets, cereal, board-games, books, towels ...
In 1982 is released Ms. Pac-Man, the first sequence of Pac-Man, which is a game similar to the original, but the character is female (with mouth painted with red lipstick), and instead of a maze, there are four different mazes.
Also released Pac-Man Jr. who proves to be a child wears a cap with a propeller on top. (A toy)
Animated series
From 1982 to 1984, the Hannah-Barbera produced an animated series based on Pac-Man, which came to be viewed by the Bandeirantes in Brazil in 1987 (program ZYB Good) and recently, on Saturday Excited by SBT. The series to be adapted to Brazil, poured the name of Pac-Man for "Glutton" and wears a hat referent of "Indiana Jones." The series dealt with the misadventures of Pac-Man and his family (wife, son, dog and cat, all creatures spherical).

World Record 
Billy Mitchell is the world record holder of the Pac-Man. The record - ratified by Twin Galaxies - was achieved during a dispute between the United States and Canada. It took over 6 hours to complete the game by achieving achieve the maximum score of the game that is 3,333,360 points. For this he had to complete 256 screens. And detail: not a single life lost

by:Matheus