The ultimate arcade game. When you say "videogame", this is the game that will pop up in almost all of the arcade generation.
Pac-Man embodied all the elements of the early arcade aesthetics: a single-action control stick, bright colours, animation interludes between the levels, and characters with no extremities and friendly nicknames. The enemy ghosts, officially known as Shadow (red), Speedy (pink), Bashful (blue), and Pokey (orange), were known as, respectively, Blinky, Pinky, Inky and Clyde.
Originally, the game was to be called Puckman. But the possibility to change the P into an F caused a change of name.
fig. 1. Pac-Man
fig. 2. Pac PC
fig. 3. Gobble Man
fig. 4. CD Man
fig. 5. 3-Demon
