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About Pac-Man (Namco 1980)

Pac-Man, designed by Toru Iwatani at Namco in 1980, is the most iconic arcade game ever made. Its visual language — a saturated yellow disc chasing pellets through a cobalt-blue maze on deep black, hunted by four color-coded ghosts — codified the grammar of character-based gaming.

This system honors that grammar literally: pixel-precise sharp corners, saturated arcade-CMYK palette, chunky display type, and a deep-black field that lets yellow, cobalt, pink, cyan, orange, and red sing at full saturation. Populist, joyful, instantly readable from across the arcade.

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Origin
Japan (Namco) → global arcade canon
Era
1980 release; 30+ years of arcade canon; ongoing through 2024+
Key figures
Toru Iwatani · Namco · Bandai Namco
Movements
1980s arcade-video-game canon · character-based gaming · Japanese pop-design

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