Pacman's game first appeared in arcade machines in 1979 in Japan under the title Puck Man, which came from PakuPaku (Japanese) which means the act of opening and closing the mouth. This game was made by Tohru Iwanati for Japanese company Namco, officially released on May 22, 1980 in Japan and achieved success with 100,000 units sold that year.
In 1981, MS Pacman came out to attract gamers, aimed at not male gamers. In 1982, Super PacMan and More PacMan came in sequence. Both extensions are characterized by the introduction of random factors, and replacement of pellets with fruit. Then Pac and Pal, Junior Professionals PacMan and PacMan appeared in 1983. Professor PacMan became a failed series because only 400 terminals were produced. The failure continued the following year with the launch of Pacland, inspired by TV series that are not attractive to gamers. This is the end of the PacMan era after 4 years that has marked the history of gaming.
In 1988, PacMan slowly returned to the market with the release of PacMania available on Megadrive and SPN. Namco is trying to innovate in this 3D game including giving PacMan the opportunity to jump, but this game has many bugs, including those who are unable to drop a few pills or ghosts. Then it returned to 2D format in 1993 with the launch of PacAttack Gameboy, a mixture of Tetris and PacMan games.
The game is to stack blocks to be eaten by characters. Then a new flop in 1994, PacMan 2, which was the result of PacMan, with very limited gameplay. In 1995 it became a Pac-in-time release year, in the Gameboy platform game. We must collect enough pellets to level up.
The most prominent PacMan World series, released in 2001 on Playstation. MS Pac Man Maze Madness and PacMan Fever also appeared in the same year on Playstation.
In 2002, Pac Man World 2 was released on Gamecube and Playstation 2, a very good 3D platform game, but the principle remains unchanged, which gives a repetitive aspect to the arena that surrounds gamers' characters,
In 2005, Pac-Pix and Pac’n’roll were released for the Nintendo DS. Where this game uses 2 top and bottom screens according to the Nintendo DS device.
Finally, PacMan Party was released in 2010 on Wii, and consists of 50 mini arcade games, to celebrate Pacman's 30 years.
For those of you who want to play it, it's quite easy to open the google search page then type "pac man". Then you can immediately play it with the help of the keyboard. Or if you want to install on an Android device.