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<body bgcolor="#ffffff"> <h1><br> <br> <br> <img src="/images/download.gif" alt="Play Pacman for Free" height="42" width="26" align="absmiddle" border="0"> Play <b>Pac-man Online</b></h1> <table class="maintext" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="8" bordercolor="F1F1F1"> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top"> <p><b>Play Pac-man</b><br> Play the addicting game of Pac-man for free. Pac-man is a classic game that has maintained its popularity over the years.</p> <div align="center"> <p><object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,0,0" height="420" width="360"> <param name="movie" value="/games/pacman.swf"> <param name="quality" value="best"> <param name="play" value="true"> <embed height="420" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" src="/games/pacman.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="360" quality="best" play="true"> </object></p> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <h2>The History of Pac-man</h2> <h3><b>Pac-Facts b</b>y Doug Trueman</h3> <p>We've compiled a list of facts you probably never knew about Pac-Man. Some of these are also included later in this feature, but we thought it would be best if we assembled them into a list of small, bite-sized pieces.</p> <ul> <li>Pac-Man is the best-selling coin-operated game in history. Forget Street Fighter 2 and Tetris. In the game's debut year alone, over 100,000 Pac-Man machines were made and sold around the world. <li>Namco estimates that the original Pac-Man arcade title has been played more than ten <i>billion</i> times in its 20-year history. Namco's total Pac-Man revenues have reached $100 million... one quarter at a time. <li>Pac-Man was inspired by a pizza with a slice missing. Namco designer Tohru Iwatani went out for the evening with some friends and then dove for dinner. The rest is history. <li>1982 saw the debut of ABC's animated cartoon, The Pac-Man Show. It ran for two years as Pac-Man tried to save his friends and Pac-Land from the evil Mezmaron. <li>Jerry Buckner and Gary Garcia spoofed Ted Nugent's song Cat Scratch Fever and turned it into Pac-Man Fever. The song hit number nine. <li>Dozens of hacked versions of Pac-Man and Ms. Pac-Man exist. These games give the Pac character a speed bonus with the push of a button or more challenging mazes with complex series of turns. <li>It took eight people 15 months to complete the original Pac-Man arcade title. Four worked on the hardware, four worked on the software. <li>Pac-Man and his fellow Pacs travel 20 percent faster through mazes that have been cleared of dots than when they're eating. If you've got a ghost on your tail, head for open ground. <li>Pac-Man has been licensed to more than 250 companies for over 400 products. There are Pac-Man air fresheners, cereal boxes, flip phones, costumes, record books, and even a hot rod. <li>The business world has co-opted Pac-Man's name as a technique to protect against a hostile takeover. The defending company would instead swallow the larger company in a move known as the Pac-Man defense. <li>In July of 1999, Florida resident and die-hard Pac-Man fan Billy Mitchell achieved the first perfect score in Pac-Man (3,333,360) after playing for six hours straight. He beat all 256 screens eating every dot, fruit, and ghost (all four ghosts were eaten with each power pellet) - using only one Pac-Man! <li>The author of this article has a huge Pac-Man pillow on his sofa. He also inexplicably gained 50 pounds over the course of writing this feature. </ul> <p>Used with permission from CNET Networks, Inc., Copyright 2005. All rights reserved.</p> </body>