Pac-Man (Japanese: ????? , Hepburn: Pakkuman ) is a fictional character of the protagonist of the game franchise of the same name by Namco, first introduced in the Japanese arcade game Pac-Man on May 22, 1980, in Japan, later released in America United in October of the same year. Since then, he has appeared in over 30 officially licensed game games, as well as in many illegal cloning and pirates, spawning a variety of Pac-Man items with his image, as well as television series. Pac-Man became a worldwide social phenomenon and Bandco Namco mascot since it appeared in 1980.
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Character design
The origins of Pac-Man are disputed. According to the creator of the character T? Ru Iwatani, inspiration is a pizza without slices, which gives him the vision of "animated pizza, racing through the maze, and eating something with his mouth that does not exist." However, he claimed to say in a 1986 interview that character design also derived from simplifying and rounding Japanese characters for mouth, kuchi . The character name comes from spikes ( ???? ) , the Japanese word onomatopoeic to devour something. The original character name is written in English as "Puck-Man", but when Namco localizes the game for the United States, they turn it into "Pac-Man", for fear that the vandal will turn P in Puck into F.
The arcade art on the original Pac-Man describes it as a yellow circle with big mouth and hands, feet, eyes, and long nose. In the game Pac-Man is represented as a two-dimensional sprite of a simple yellow circle with the mouth. 1984 Pac-Land is the first game (lot) that uses its arcade art in the game. Recently Pac-Man emerged as a full three dimensional polygonal model. His design underwent two minor changes to the art of the Puck-Man cabinet over the years, the first of which made his nose smaller in the 1990s and the second changed his eyes and shoes in 2010.
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Appearance
In the video game
Pac-Man first appeared in the original action game of the same name. Despite Pac-Man's inherited Pac-Man, Pac-Man itself will not appear again until the release of the 1982 arcade Super Pac-Man , which introduced the change to Super Pac-Man (Pac-Man increases in size and immunity). Then the arcade games include Pac-Land , Pac-Mania and Pac-Man Arrangement , a remake of the original Pac-Man . Pac-Man World was released in 1999 on the PlayStation, and introduced new abilities to it (reminiscent of Mario and Sonic the Hedgehog abilities). This game greatly contributes to the series as well as the characters and spawned two sequels and spin-offs as well. Pac-Man World 2 features Pac-Man in an adventure to save Pac-Land from an ancient spirit known as Spooky. Pac-Man World 3 was released in 2005 to celebrate Pac-Man's 25th birthday. In Pac/n Roll, the young Pac-Man is being trained by a great Pac-Master.
Several spin-offs have been released, such as Pac-Man World Rally racing game. Midway Games sets a spin-off titled Ms. Pac-Man (featuring Pac-Man's wife of the same name), created without Namco's consent. Pac-Man appeared on Street Tekfighter X Tekken as a playable guest fighter, riding a gigantic Mokujin robot, and on Everybody's Golf 6 as a playable guest golfer (via DLC). Pac-Man has also appeared on all three Mario Kart Arcade GP installments as a racer that can be played along with Ms Pac-Man.
Pac-Man is also a playable character in Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U , developed by Sora Ltd. and Bandai Namco Games. Train the classic design used in art for the original game and in the Pac-Man World trilogy, Pac-Man moveset is based on Pac-Man's earliest games and various other Namco. arcade titles, such as deploying Power Pellet and dashing afterwards, summoning fire hydrants from Pac-Land, or jumping on the trampoline of Mappy . An Amiibo figure released from Pac-Man also allows Pac-Man elements to appear in compatible Nintendo titles, such as Mario Kart 8 and Super Mario Maker >. Pac-Man is set to return at Super Smash Bros. Ultimate .
Other appearances
"Pac-Man Fever", a hit single named after the character, reached number nine on the Hot 100 Billboard in the US in March 1982 and was certified Gold by the RIAA in the same month. In the late 2000s, a feature film was reportedly under development. The character is the main mascot of the Pac-Man Land children's play area located at Six Flags Over Texas from 1983-1985, before being converted into Looney Tunes Land.
Pac-Man starred in the 1982-1983 Pac-Man cartoon voiced by Marty Ingels. In the series, Pac-Man works to keep Mezmaron and the Ghost Monster find the Power Pellets Forest.
In 2010, computer-generated animated series are reportedly under construction. It was later revealed as Pac-Man and Ghostly Adventures , which aired on Disney XD in 2013. The series revolves around a Pac-Man teenager (aka Pacster or Pac), who protects Pac-World from ghosts with his high school friends.
Karakter telah membuat banyak penampilan cameo di berbagai serial kartun televisi dan film, termasuk Tron , Tiny Toon Adventures (episode "Gang Buster" dan "Buster and Babs Go Hawaiian" ), The Simpsons (episode "Homer dan Ned Hail Mary Pass"), Futurama (episode "Anthology of Interest II" disuarakan oleh David Herman), South Park (Episode "Imaginationland Episode III"), Digambar Bersama (episode "Gay Bash" dan "Nipple Ring-Ring Goes to Foster Care"), Family Guy (episode "Stuck Together, Torn Apart", "Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story", dan "Candy, Quahog Marshmallow"), Annoying Orange (episode "Pacmania"), Ayam Robot (episode "Tubba-Bubba Sekarang Hubba-Hubba" dan "Fool's Goldfinger"), Mad ,, Penjaga Galaxy Vol. 2 , dan Wreck-It Ralph .
Pac-Man also appears, in larger roles (including prominent ones featured in promotional posters), in the 2015 movie Pixels among the arcade game characters that aliens release as monsters on Earth. The Creator, T? Ru Iwatani, also appeared in the film as a repairman Electric Dreams Factory Arcade while Denis Akiyama described the movie T? Ru Iwatani who tried to argue with Pac-Man only to get his right arm embedded when bitten by Pac-Man.
In Japan, tokusatsu movie 2016 Kamen Rider Heisei Generations: Dr. Pac-Man vs. Ex-Aid & amp; Ghost with Legend Riders introduced a Pac-Man-like character named Dr. Pac-Man played by Shir? Sano.
Characterization
Pac-Man is often portrayed as a family man, as a result of some spin-offs from his games starring in family members. She is often seen married to Ms. Pac-Man, and father of one or two children. In many incarnations he also has a pet dog, named Chomp-Chomp in his most famous depictions in cartoons and Pac-Land. They are often seen living inside a house that is shaped like a Pac-Man's face with a window for eyes and a door in place of his mouth. In the cartoon series, the house is painted white, while often in the game it is painted yellow. Pac-Man and Ghost Adventure , a new cartoon of 2013, describes Pac-Man as a high school student who goes to school with Cylindria and Spiral friends.
In the cartoon series Hanna-Barbera, she dubs Ms. Pac-Man "Pepper", Baby Pac-Man is a boy (in the game, she is a girl with a bow just like her mother) and she also has a pet cat named Sourpuss. The second season of the cartoon introduces Pac-Man Jr. as the greaser who is actually Pac-Man's niece, and Super Pac-Man who is not Pac-Man himself, but a separate character that comes after hacking the zipper in the open sky. Pac-Land marks the first official use of Ms. Pac-Man and Pac-Baby in the Namco title.
Pac-Man itself is often characterized as a person who likes to have fun and likes to have fun, often with a voracious appetite, who likes adventure but often prefers quiet family life. The title of his first platform, Pac-Land, which illustrates he often rests between levels on signs that read "Rest Time" while ending a three-level bow with his return to his home, leading to a cutscenes where he is seen sitting with his family at dinner and sleeping in his bed. Pac-Man began with Pac-Man doing the task for his family, with various game elements that caused him to suddenly change his mood from happy, sad, angry, silly, and even scaly. It culminates with the Ghost Witch plot to create a monster made from chewed chewing gum that sparked a heroic sense in Pac-Man causing him to search for a witch and stop his plot. The Pac-Man World series describes Pac-Man as generally happy, though a little sarcastic, protects his family, and finally his entire world from an evil ghost named Orson and his plan to take Pac -Land from the spectral zone, where The ghost of the game is said to originate.
Pac-Man's work varies from game-to-game. In the Hanna-Barbera animated series he is said to be the protector of Power Pellet Forest, whose main villain Mezmaron hopes to infiltrate and steal electric pellets for energy to use in his evil scheme. In the game, he is often portrayed as having no job, but is recognized throughout Pac-Land as a hero who constantly outranks them from ghostly threats. Pac-Man World shows that he has a job, because he is seen walking home from work with a lunch box in hand, but never determined exactly what his job is. Pac-Man and Ghost Adventure describe Pac-Man as a student.
Pac-Man has had numerous arch-rivals for years. The mysterious Mezmaron, the villain of the Hanna-Barbera series, uses the five main "ghosts" (as it is called in the television series) of the game - Inky, Blinky, Pinky, Clyde and Sue - as accomplices in his plan to steal electric pellets from the forest Power Pellet. The second Nemesis, Ghost Witch, appeared on Pac-Man 2 and Pac-In-Time, also using the five main ghosts of the game as a henchman. In the first game, he tried to take over the city Pac-Man by creating a monster of chewing gum that has been chewed before. In the second, he tried to get rid of himself from Pac-Man by throwing it into the warp-time. The main culprit of Pac-Man World is Orson, an ordinary ghost who is also an inventive genius. Orson was a villain in the first title, but assisted Pac-Man in the third game against a greater threat to both, Erwin. Spooky, the ghost had once disappeared by Pac-a-Lot, who was released (albeit unintentionally) by Blinky, Inky, Pinky and Clyde. In Pac-Man and Ghost Adventure, the villain is Bethrayus, the brother who died from President Spheros.
Pac-Man's relationship with the four original ghosts that appear in his game is usually one of the friendliest antagonisms. In almost every game and cartoon Pac-Man sees ghosts as a nuisance and not a threat, and often has a useful pellet force to send their bullying attempts in an instant. The ghosts in turn are often described as rude, abusive, and bullying but are ultimately clumsy and useless in their attempts to get better from Pac-Man. At Ghostly Adventures , the ghost girl Pinky has a crush on Pac.
What happened to Pac-Man when he was caught by varied ghosts. The cartoon states that if the ghost "chews" Pac-Man, he will lose his skull for a while. However, after seeing it too graphically for children, the later season even stated that Pac-Man will weaken temporarily after chewing. Pac-Man 2 indicates that Ghost is really adept at scaring Pac-Man, often by making funny faces, and Pac-Man is powerless against them unless he has Power Pellet. Pac-Man World just shows that when Pac-Man touches ghosts, it's like those who come to hit each other. The 2011 cartoon pilot shows that Pac-Man can actually eat ghosts without the help of pellet-power, but if he does a ghost turns into a bland goo in Pac-Man's mouth that he prefers not to eat.
Reception
Since the release of Pac-Man in 1980, Pac-Man has become a social phenomenon and became an icon of the video game industry, as well as popular culture. According to Davie-Brown Index (DBI), Pac-Man has the highest brand awareness of every video game character among American consumers, recognized by 94 percent of them (surpassing Mario and Sonic). Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto even stated that Pac-Man is his favorite video game character. Pac-Man is the first character to be sworn in the International Video Game Hall of Fame Twin Galaxies in 2010. In 2012, GamesRadar puts it as the 73rd "most memorable, influential and evil" protagonist in the game, commenting: "Simple Toru Iwatani , iconic, timeless character designs have seen Pac-Man survive for over 30 years and become an established visual steno for games and gaming cultures around the world. "
Cultural impact
Pac-Man's defense term in mergers and acquisitions refers to hostile takeover targets that try to reverse the situation and take over the would-be acquisition candidate instead, a reference to Pac-Man Power Pellet. Filipino boxer Manny Pacquiao was nicknamed "Pac-Man", as did American soccer player Adam Jones.
References
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