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Pac-Man Makes Guinness Book

Posted by Zonk on from the wakka-wakka-woot dept.

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!"

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  1. Good for pacman by FidelCatsro · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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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  2. Guinness Book of Records sold out long ago by bazmail · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.