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While a nascent games industry was laser focused on emulating the success of Taito’s Space Invaders, one designer tried to make something completely different - and ended up creating our second design icon: Pac-Man.
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Extra Footage
Tokyo Landscapes | Bolo Bellheimer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BnMipDBx2I
The Ultimate Early 80s Arcade Tribute | Patrick Scott Patterson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWevidSFyjY
Pinball Machine, 1970s USA | thekinolibrary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzaY67xomrg
80s Japan - Video Arcade | NichiBeiTrader
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Yjv3EVEfzE
Happy Birthday Pac-Man: A look at news coverage in 1982 | Patrick Scott Patterson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6O1dYCz1rAE
Professor Toru Iwatani Gamelab Legend Award Interview | Gamereactor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47g7TVIVRbA
Traffic, Busy Streets, Shibuya Crossing | thekinolibrary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsSMlZRRrrw
Manhattan, New York 1980 | Mackenzie Rough
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6blCkVMwERc
Buckner & Garcia - Pacman Fever | EDUARDO ANDRES CONTRERAS NOBIZELLI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrwnAdqBCg0
1984 Pac-Man Cereal Commercial | xntryk1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9cb96jMi5c
Pac-Man Atari commercial compilation | Toy lover
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00i4taTqOmQ
When Pac-Man was King - CBS Evening News | Shatner Method
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6iV1CkCnWk
Music used in this episode
Sun Bleach - Lifeformed (https://lifeformed.bandcamp.com/album/fastfall-extras)
Various - Lee Rosevere (https://leerosevere.bandcamp.com)
Pac-Man Fever - Buckner & Garcia
Wreck-It Ralph © Disney
Tom and Jerry © Warner Bros
Popeye © Turner Entertainment
Little Ghost Q-Taro © TV Asahi
Casper the Friendly Ghost © DreamWorks
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World © Universal Pictures
Pac-Man © Warner Bros
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