But if you haven't played one since Pac-Man, it can be a bit confusing.
Classic arcade games, such as Pac-Man and Space Invaders, are particularly well suited to mobile play.
"If someone is young and wasn't around when 'Pac-Man' was played, then it isn't nostalgia, " she said.
The Tournaments mode, where players can enjoy playing the classic PAC-MAN with never-before-seen mazes, is a perfect fit for this micro-transaction ecosystem.
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While an undergrad, he reportedly began importing early prototypes of Pac-Man and Space Invaders, renting them to bars and Bay Area bars and restaurants.
Back in the day, games like Pong, Ms. Pac-Man and Donkey Kong introduced the first generation of gamers to the magic of interactive entertainment.
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Corporations are not people, except in certain legal circumstances in America that has helped create a PAC-MAN world of high rollers bankrolling their preferred candidate.
There are artificial tornadoes in glass tubes, a creepy video art installation, a cooperative Pac-Man game, and a place to send text messages to fish.
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Favre played video games back in the day such as Pong and Pac-man, but he says he's seen gaming come a long way since then.
Not since the days that Pac-man and Frogger graced arcades has such a wide swath of the population been interested in gaming, industry observers say.
To challenge him to a rousing debate on marketing attribution, a nostalgic game of Pac-Man or one-on-one hoops, connect with him on LinkedIn.
Staying up until 1 a.m. and playing together to accomplish a goal, no matter how mindless or destructive, is pretty revolutionary for guys raised on Pac-Man.
With electrodes fixed to his skull, Mr Styffe fixed his mind on game characters, such as a juggler or a Pac-Man-like blob fleeing ghosts in a maze.
Over half of the clients who order machines during that holiday are female, which actually harkens back to the early days on Pong and Pac-Man, before games became too complex.
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As Pacquiao has ascended into one of the planet's most compelling athletes, so has the reputation of the 51-year-old Roach, Pac-man's soft-spoken engineer in the corner, counseling wisely behind black-rimmed eyeglasses.
While the Internet has held my hand through my adult life, my childhood was devoid of doodads (unless you count the portable Pac-Man console my brother and I used to fight over).
And in addition to PPO3, Fong says that the company will release more of its own online casual games this year, including a Pac-Man and Ms. PacMan game on UniteSDK coming out this month.
Nintendo's conference was like a retirement home for classic game developers as Toru Iwatani, the brains behind Pac-Man, played on-stage against Mario wunderkind, Shigeru Miyamoto, who is currently working on an all-new Pac-Man title.
Videogame developer Namco Bandai needs help redesigning Pac-Man.
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But a bank-breaking bout between Pac-Man and Money?
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Many a job was neglected for employees in their cubicles and for college students, classes either skipped or attended, but with a laptop in tow as the world caught on to that sweet, sweet Pac-Man fever.
Aside from being a bit weirded out by a talking Pac-man lookalike and a hump-backed eraser, we're not so sure that Big Brother being right there on your cellphone at all times is actually a perk.
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Communities of graying gamers have sprouted up world-wide as generations reared on Pong and Pac-Man have become addicted to the latest iterations of Halo and Call of Duty, but are no longer as fast with their trigger fingers.
People who can explain how Ms Pac-Man was only a feminist gaming icon after the fact, a bootleg dressed up as filler between the original arcade game and Super Pac-Man, taking advantage of the numerous female competitors at arcade tournaments.
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For those less concerned with productivity, you'll be please to know that the Loox also comes pre-loaded with versions of Pac-Man and other retro games -- which we're sure will be the tipping point for more than a few of you.
The games were Space Invaders, Asteroids, Missile Command, Pac-Man, Robotron, Tempest, Centipede, Defender, Joust, and Galaga, which I did become passably proficient at and which, if I see it now, in a pizzeria or an airport, still inspires me to hunt for change.
While the lumbering relics of the computing past are torn up for scrap--or, if they're lucky, stashed away in a museum--games such as Pac Man or Galaga are endlessly recycled for use in online services, such as X-Box Live, or on mobile phones and handheld devices.
Others sites will offer pay-per-play classic games such as Asteroids and Pac Man, and others will offer cinema and theatre tickets or ring tones and icons.
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