The legendary and massively successful Pac-Man video game was released in Japan on May 21, 1980, and in the United States in October of same year. Pac-Man, the yellow, pie-shaped creature that wanders through a maze trying to eat dots while avoiding four pursuing ghosts, swiftly became a 1980s icon. Pac-Man is still one of the most popular video games in history, and its creative design has inspired several books and scholarly studies.
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