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40 PAC-MAN 40TH ANNIVERSARY

40 YEARS OF PAC-MAN

Coded by Namco’s Toru Iwatani and released for location testing in Shibuya, Tokyo in May 1980 after 17 months of gruelling coding, Puck-Man, as it was then known, went down well with those that were able to play it. Encouraged by those

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