A Look Back @ Pac-Man’s Early Years

By
Mr Toffee
— Thursday, June 24th, 2010 @11:17 AM
Posted in Retro

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While on a trip to Holland for a Festival of Games exhibition, Toru Iwatani (the original creator of Pac-Man) showed off a folder filled with the first designs of Pac-Man and the famous maze drawn on graph paper. Needless to say, these are very fascinating. What we’re seeing here is a blueprint to one of the most important creations in videogame history. While it looks simple when it came out, there’s a lot of conceptual changes put into its inception; from the maze layout right to the pixels and look of our little dot-muncher.

You also have to wonder how many iterations the maze went through before what people got in 1980. The amount of paper Iwatani and co. burnt through for the perfect maze was damaging for the environment, but the end result was definitely what put Pac-Man onto the pop culture map.

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1 Response to “A Look Back @ Pac-Man’s Early Years”

  1. Edward Elric says:
    June 24, 2010 at 5:10 pm

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