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Pac-Man

Distinct enemy personalities and interstitial cartoons: character enters the arcade.

Released 1980 Developer Namco Platform Arcade Genre Maze Era The home cartridge

Mechanics this game introduced

These are recorded as first appearing here. Each links to a full history of where the idea went next.

Narrative · 1980
Attract-Mode Premise
Attract-mode premise uses short non-interactive vignettes between rounds to establish character and situation, the fir…
Origin: Pac-Man

Mechanics it built on

Ideas Pac-Man inherited rather than invented — each traceable back through the ontology to a root.

Single-Screen Arena 1972Numeric Score 1972Lives and Continues 1978Wraparound Topology 1979

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