Pacman makes his first appearance in
arcades in 1979 in Japan under the title Puck Man, derived from
Japanese PakuPaku which denotes the action of opening and closing the mouth.
The game, created by Tohru Iwanati for the Japanese company Namco, made his
Release 22 May 1980 in Japan and has a legendary success soon
with 100,000 units sold that year.
In 1981, MS Pacman made his exit to attract players, the majority
Instead of players being male. In 1982, Super PacMan and More
PacMan that are emerging. These two extensions are marked
by the introduction of the random factor, and replacement of the pellets
with fruit. Then Pac and Pal, Junior Professor PacMan and PacMan
make their appearance in 1983. Professor PacMan will be a flop because
only 400 terminals will be produced. The flop continues the following year
with the launch of Pacland, inspired the TV series that offers nothing
interesting to do to players. This is the end of the era PacMan after 4
years that have marked the history of gaming.
In 1988, PacMan is slowly coming back on the market with the release of
PacMania available on Megadrive and NES. Namco is trying to innovate
out this 3D game including giving the possibility to PacMan
jump, but the game has a lot of bugs, including
unable to drop some pills or ghosts
appear to be more than 4. Back to 2D in 1993 with the release of
PacAttack Gameboy, a fun mix of Tetris and PacMan. The
game is to stack the ghost block for our heroes
eat.
New flop in 1994, PacMan 2, which is the result of PacMan, with
a very limited gameplay.
1995 will be the year of release of Pac-in-time, on a platform game
Gameboy as there are dozens. We must collect a certain
enough pellets to move up the levels.
The most prominent PacMan World, released in 2001 on the Playstation, which
all the gameplay of Mario in 3D platform game with 36 levels
to the key. MS Pac Man Maze Madness and PacMan Fever are also
appeared the same year on the Playstation, the game in MPMM laby
Fever in 3D and multiplayer combat, where there are other
Namco game characters. 2001 was a great year of success
yellow for Camembert.
In 2002, Pac Man World 2 is released on Gamecube and Playstation 2, very good
3D platform game yet, but the principle remains unchanged, which
gives a repetitive aspect to the universe that surrounds our heroes, right or
Namco should innovate! It will be followed World 3 in 2006.
In 2005, Pac-Pix and Pac'n'roll out on Nintendo DS. In pix, it must
draw it down PacMan ghosts and roll has several
3D maze levels.
Finally, PacMan Party, was released in 2010 on Wii, and is composed of 50
mini-arcade games, to celebrate 30 years of Pacman.