{"id":11323,"date":"2015-05-25T09:12:56","date_gmt":"2015-05-25T13:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=11323"},"modified":"2021-05-20T11:04:33","modified_gmt":"2021-05-20T15:04:33","slug":"30-years-of-pac-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/25\/30-years-of-pac-man\/","title":{"rendered":"30 Years of Pac-Man"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chris Kohler<\/a> (via Dave Dribin<\/a>):<\/p>\n

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By creating a cute cast of characters and a design sensibility that appealed to wider audiences than the shoot-em-up Space Invaders<\/cite>, Iwatani broadened the appeal and marketability of games, creating what some call the first “casual game.”<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

“After that, I became a producer. Namco was a small company, and because the organization expanded, I was promoted to section chief. Someone had to coordinate the younger developers that we’d hired.<\/p>\n

“So although I was still capable and wanted to keep developing games, I was told to serve as the supervisor — the manager of the baseball team, instead of a player.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Corinne Segal<\/a> (via Dave Dribin<\/a>):<\/p>\n

Today marks 35 years since Pac-Man debuted at a movie theater in the Shibuya area of Tokyo. Since then, the game has become one of the most popular of all time, producing more than eight other versions, a television series and more than 400 products. A few facts to think about the next time you’re playing Pac-Man at your local laundromat<\/a> or on Google Maps<\/a>.<\/p>

[…]<\/p>

Iwatani described<\/a> his company’s reaction to the game in an interview with VH1 Games in 2007, saying: “I’m not sure if I should mention this or not. Well, um, the truth of the matter is, there were no rewards per se for the success of Pac-Man. I was just an employee. There was no change in my salary, no bonus, no official citation of any kind.”<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chris Kohler (via Dave Dribin): By creating a cute cast of characters and a design sensibility that appealed to wider audiences than the shoot-em-up Space Invaders, Iwatani broadened the appeal and marketability of games, creating what some call the first “casual game.” […] “After that, I became a producer. Namco was a small company, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2021-05-20T15:04:36Z","apple_news_api_id":"ab7c9187-1ae7-4d61-ba39-359992f30542","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2021-05-20T15:04:36Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/Aq3yRhxrnTWG6OTWZkvMFQg","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2070,418,295],"class_list":["post-11323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-anniversary","tag-game","tag-history"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11324,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11323\/revisions\/11324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}