Guess who’s 30?
If you need a hint: go to google.com. The logo on the main search page has been replaced with a game of Pac-Man.
Yes, it’s been that long since the classic arcade game started. Does that make you feel old?
Pac-Man’s roots actually go back to Japan. A company called Namco Bandai released a game called Puck-Man on this day in 1980.
That title didn’t quite work out in the United States, but the game featuring the yellow, pizza-shaped character that tries to gobble up dots while not being eaten by multi-colored ghosts took off.
Thirty years later, Pac-Man has the highest brand awareness -- 94 percent -- of any video game character among American consumers, according to the Davie-Brown Index, used
Some Pac-Man facts to chomp on:
*The Guinness Book of World Records named Pac-Man as the best-known video game character on Earth.
*The ghosts are historically called: Blinky, Pinky, Inky and Clyde.
*Pac-Man is one of the longest running video game franchises, according to the History of Computing.
*It is one of only three video games that are on display at the Smithsonian in Washington (The other two -- Pong and Dragon's Lair.)
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