Back in 2010, Control invited Pac-Man creator Toru Iwatani to come and speak at a conference in The Netherlands. On a bus trip during his visit, he pulled out an innocent looking folder. Innocent, it was not. The folder contained the original sketches for his revolutionary game. As it turned out, this is the very first photograph of these sketches. Inspiring, aren’t they?
Iwatani showing Pac-Man sketches for the first time. (c) CONTROL500
Iwatani showing Pac-Man sketches for the first time ever. (c) CONTROL500
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Although Pac-Man made his debut in 1980, it wasn’t until Presidents Day weekend, 1982 when I was first inuedotcrd to Pac-Man! Obviously I was not into arcade/video games prior to then! Anyway, I was on a ski trip in the Pocono Mountains (Pennsylvania) with my church’s high school youth group, and the hotel we stayed at had a small arcade which of coarse, had Pac-Man! After watching several kids play and giving it a try myself, I right away became a fan of Pac-Man! I’ve always loved that catchy tune at the beginning of the game! Coincidentally, just a few days after returning home from the ski trip, I was up in my bedroom listening to the radio, when I first heard Buckner and Garcia’s Pac-Man Fever! It seemed that Pac-Man peaked in popularity in 1982. It was then that the Atari 2600 version of Pac-Man was released, along with several hand-held/tabletop versions. At one point, almost everywhere you looked you saw something with Pac-Man on it t-shirts, mugs, towels, watches, cereal, ice cream/popsicles, candy, among countless other items! For Christmas 1982, I got one of those tabletop Coleco Pac-Man games!