According to the character's creator Toru Iwatani, the inspiration was pizza without a slice, which gave him a vision of 'an animated pizza, racing through a maze and eating things with its absent-slice mouth'. He is credited as the first video game mascot character and the first to receive merchandise. Pac-Man has the highest-brand awareness of any video game character in North America, becoming an icon in video games and pop culture. In Japan, he was originally titled 'Puckman' for his hockey puck-like shape, which was changed in international releases to prevent defacement of the arcade cabinets by changing the P into an F. The character was made to be cute and colorful to appeal to younger players, particularly women. The idea of Pac-Man was taken from both the image of a pizza with a slice removed and from rounding out the Japanese symbol 'kuchi', meaning 'mouth'. He also appears as a playable character in the Super Smash Bros. Pac-Man also has a voracious appetite, being able to consume vast amounts of food in a short timespan, and can eat his enemies by consuming large 'Power Pellets'. Pac-Man's most common antagonists are the Ghost Gang - Blinky, Pinky, Inky and Clyde that are determined to defeat him to accomplish their goals, which change throughout the series. He is the official mascot of Bandai Namco Entertainment. Created by Toru Iwatani, he first appeared in the arcade game Pac-Man (1980), and has since appeared in more than 30 licensed sequels and spin-offs for multiple platforms, and spawning mass amounts of merchandise in his image, including two television series and a hit single by Buckner & Garcia. Pac-Man is a fictional character and the titular protagonist of the video game franchise of the same name. Unknown ( Pac-Man World, Mario Kart Arcade GP and sequel)ĭuncan MacLaren ( Pac-Man: Adventures in Time) ĭebi Derryberry ( Street Fighter X Tekken, Pac-Man Party) Įrica Mendez ( Ghostly Adventures game and sequel)

Pac-Man, as he appears in Super Smash Bros.

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