History of Pac-Man

Series Summary

The Namco arcade game Pac-Man is one of the most popular games ever. Millions of people have experienced the thrill of trying to out-maneuver Shadow, Speedy, Bashful, and Pokey. Still others know the sweet victory of eating those ghosts with Pac-Man's mighty mouth. Though most people feel that the fun of the game is in the challenge of hand eye coordination in eating all the fruit, pellets, and power pellets, there are many who feel that the challenge is not lost by using patterns to achieve a perfect score. Trick patterns have been developed to defeat the ghosts no matter what. If you would like to learn these trick patterns and techniques for winning Pac-Man, you can learn for free and online from one of our experts.

In this free how-to video series, learn from gaming expert Leo Daniels how to play the arcade game Pac-Man. Leo will show you how to score the most points in Pac-Man, how to play Pac-Man with trick patterns and techniques for running through ghosts unharmed, how to play Ms. Pac-Man with trick patterns, how to play Jr. Pac Man and Pac-Man Plus.

Video Transcript

"Hi! Leo Daniels, world champion video game and pinball player, here for Expert Village. After we did our pinball segment a little while ago, I got several e-mails on Pac-Man. I was actually surprised since Pac-Man is almost 30 years old now. Several of your sent in e-mails asking for the Pac-Man patterns and was asking questions basically about Pac-Man, so here we are. We're going to talk about Pac-Man, the different variations of Pac-Man, Ms. Pac-Man, Pac-Man plus, Super Pac-Man, and even Junior Pac-Man all are on this one cabinet. We'll talk a little bit more about that later. I'll give a little history on Pac-Man. The original Pac-Man came out in 1980. One of the biggest maze games of all times. Followed by Ms. Pac-Man in 1981, late '81. Then a whole slew of Pac-Man games came out like Junior Pac-Man, Pac-Man plus, Super Pac-Man, Professor Pac-Man. Even in the early 80s there was a video pinball called Baby Pac-Man, which integrated pinball and video all in one. We'll talk a little bit more about that and get in more about actually playing the games here."