Game: PacMan Year: 1980 (c): Midway Mfg. Co. ---------------------------------- .KEG By: Kevin Brisley ROMs Needed: pacman.5e pacman.5f pacman.6e pacman.6f pacman.6h pacman.6j ---------------------------------- If you have some history on Pac Man. Please send it to me (kevin@isgtec.com) and I will add it. ---------------------------------- Added by: Jeff Mercer PacMan was a *massive* hit for Midway, and fundamentally changed the arcade game market. It was a move away from shoot-the-things-that-move game, and was popular enough to inspire a song ("PacMan Fever") which eventually led to the production of an entire album of video-game themed songs. PacMan was followed by many sequels, copycats, and blatant bootleg rip-offs. It spawned a saturday-morning cartoon show (along with Donkey Kong, Space Ace, and Dragon's Lair) that lasted for several seasons. And of course there was quite a bitch of merchandising, including hand-held PacMan games, PacMan watches, PacMan lunchboxes, and literally dozens of differnet books on how to "beat" the PacMan game. The rights to the PacMan game were at one point licensed (or perhaps sold?) to Atari, allowing them to make a number of variants of the game for their home video game systems and home computers. Trivia: If you reach the 255th level of PacMan and complete it, the next level that appears is divided in half down the vertical of the display. The left half is full of random text and garbage, while the right half is normal. But you can still play the entire game (the maze simply isn't visible in the left half) and many folks manage to get past the "garbage" level to start over at the very beginning... but with everything runn super-fast, of coruse. :) My wife has an old book that features detailed interviews with a number of computer professionals, including Bill Gates and The Woz. It was written in the early 1980's so it's pretty dated, but it includes an interview with the original Japanese creator of the PacMan game!! I will endeavor to find the book so I can get the details on the interview and see if I can include some facts and quotes from it...