Cutie Q
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Cutie Q is a 1979 block breaker/video pinball hybrid arcade game developed and published by Namco in Japan. The player controls a set of paddles with a rotary knob, with the objective being to score a
Japanese instruction card
Pac-Man
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Pac-Man, originally titled Puck Man in Japan, is a 1980 maze video game developed and published by Namco for arcades. It was released in Japan on May 22, 1980 and by Midway Manufacturing in North Amer
Cutie Q
…Namco's first "character game", thanks to its use of colorful and cute character designs, a choice that was a major influence on Iwatani's next project, Pac-Man. The title was derived from the band Creedence Clearwater Revival's 1968 cover of the song Susie Q, which Iwatani was a fan of. To lower manufacturing…
Creator of Pac-Man, Toru Iwatani, at the 2011 Game Developers Conference
Portable version (Handheld electronic game) by Japanese company Tomy
Pac-Man characters as street decorations in Barcelona, Spain
Pac-Man interactive exposition at The Art of Video Games