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While a nascent games industry was laser focused on emulating the success of Taito’s Space Invaders, one designer tried to make something completely different - and ended up creating our second design icon: Pac-Man.

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Q&A: Pac-Man Creator Reflects on 30 Years of Dot-Eating | Wired
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The Pac-Man Dossier | Gamasutra
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Pac-Man Interview with creator Toru Iwatani at GDC 2011 | YouTube
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GO3: Kojima Talks Metal Gear History, Future | Gamasutra
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Learn More

Pac-Man Creator Toru Iwatani Biograph | Pac-Man Museum
pacmanmuseum.com/history/Toru-Iwatani.php

Postmortem: Pac-Man, Iwatani's rhapsody in yellow | Gamasutra
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Toru Iwatani: Pac-Man and the real life of games design | Financial Times
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Toru Iwatani - Mechanics of Pac Man | YouTube
youtube.com/watch?v=2rck2DWvons

Extra Footage

Tokyo Landscapes | Bolo Bellheimer
youtube.com/watch?v=5BnMipDBx2I

The Ultimate Early 80s Arcade Tribute | Patrick Scott Patterson
youtube.com/watch?v=nWevidSFyjY

Pinball Machine, 1970s USA | thekinolibrary
youtube.com/watch?v=gzaY67xomrg

80s Japan - Video Arcade | NichiBeiTrader
youtube.com/watch?v=4Yjv3EVEfzE

Happy Birthday Pac-Man: A look at news coverage in 1982 | Patrick Scott Patterson
youtube.com/watch?v=6O1dYCz1rAE

Professor Toru Iwatani Gamelab Legend Award Interview | Gamereactor
youtube.com/watch?v=47g7TVIVRbA

Traffic, Busy Streets, Shibuya Crossing | thekinolibrary
youtube.com/watch?v=dsSMlZRRrrw

Manhattan, New York 1980 | Mackenzie Rough
youtube.com/watch?v=6blCkVMwERc

Buckner & Garcia - Pacman Fever | EDUARDO ANDRES CONTRERAS NOBIZELLI
youtube.com/watch?v=ZrwnAdqBCg0

1984 Pac-Man Cereal Commercial | xntryk1
youtube.com/watch?v=H9cb96jMi5c

Pac-Man Atari commercial compilation | Toy lover
youtube.com/watch?v=00i4taTqOmQ

When Pac-Man was King - CBS Evening News | Shatner Method
youtube.com/watch?v=m6iV1CkCnWk

Music used in this episode

Sun Bleach - Lifeformed (lifeformed.bandcamp.com/album/fastfall-extras)
Various - Lee Rosevere (https://leerosevere.bandcamp.com)
Pac-Man Fever - Buckner & Garcia

Wreck-It Ralph © Disney
Tom and Jerry © Warner Bros
Popeye © Turner Entertainment
Little Ghost Q-Taro © TV Asahi
Casper the Friendly Ghost © DreamWorks
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World © Universal Pictures
Pac-Man © Warner Bros

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