How a young game designer at Namco turned a simple idea about eating into a worldwide gaming icon. How each of Pac-Man’s ghosts has its own unique behavior that’s driven by early game logic. Why the ...

Pac-Man's iconic yellow pie-shaped chomper turns 45 today. The game was officially released on May 22, 1980 in Japanese arcades before launching in the United States in October 1980, according to the ...

Pac-Man turns 45 on May 22. Even if you weren’t around during the arcade’s heyday, you know Pac-Man. The little yellow circle has been munching dots and running from ghosts in a massive franchise that ...

Gaming history is defined by strange accidents and hidden origins. A physicist created the first digital tennis game in 1958.