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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: BlueStateSaint on January 30, 2017, 12:07:24 PM
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Bummer. I would have loved to have learned the patterns to that game . . . We all have to go sometime.
'Father of Pac-Man' dead: Masaya Nakamura, founder of Namco, dies aged 91
Masaya Nakamura founded the Japanese video game company behind the hit arcade game Pac-Man
BySophie Curtis,
12:47, 30 JAN 2017
Updated16:38, 30 JAN 2017
Masaya Nakamura, founder of the company behind hit Japanese arcade game Pac-Man, has died at the age of 91.
Nakamura reportedly died on January 22. Namco confirmed his death on Monday, but did not comment on the cause of death or other personal details, citing his family's wishes.
Having attended technical university in Yokohama, Nakamura founded Namco in 1955. The company started out running children's rides with two mechanical horses on the roof of a department store.
It went on to pioneer games arcades and amusement parks.
Namco's first original video game was Gee Bee, in 1978. It was followed by Galaxian in 1979 - which revolutionised the industry as the first video game to use RGB colour graphics.
However, it was Pac-Man, released in 1980, that came to define Namco's legacy, going on to become a fixture in popular culture.
The Pizza Hut that we all seemed to go to after high school basketball games had a Pac Man 'table.' I almost never got in to play it.
The rest of the article is here: http://www.mirror.co.uk/tech/father-pac-man-dead-masaya-9720575
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I liked Galaga better than Pac-Man.
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Used to spend lots of money at the arcades playing PacMan back in the early 80's.
It had the best graphics and sound ::)