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Pac-Man Makes Guinness Book
phresno writes "As a gaming icon, everybody loves Namco's Pac-Man. The arcade machine sold over 293,000 units in just eight years of its initial release and is fondly remembered even 25 years later. The success of Pac-Man has awarded it not only pop culture status, but a spot in the Guinness Book of World Records. Long live Pac-Man!"
I loved Pac-man , it was one of the first games i ever played and got hooked on it .
Everything about it was just brilliant at the time , it was stylisticly wonderfull and pac-man has rightly so earnt its place amongst our cultural iconography.
Though i wonder why it took the guinness book people so long to recognise Pac-man.
*hums level up noise*
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Ms PacMan was a better game , in the same way that Super mario Bros 3 was better than Super Mario brothers.
The reason the cred goes to PacMan is that without it Ms PacMan would have probably been what PacMan was.
Definantly though , Ms PacMan was one sequal that really did improve upon the origional , They learnt the leassons from PacMan and build upon its strength to build a far better game . unlike many sequals we see nowadays which add little more than a slick of paint and some mior tweaks and end up forgetting why the game was fun in the first place
The only things certain in war are Propaganda and Death. You can never be sure which is which though
I stopped buying that book ever since i saw highly dubious catagories creeping in like "The shortest instruction manual for a computer" which was "awarded" to the iMac a few years ago.
An obvious advertisemsent.