A Legend Is Born
The company Namco gets the credit for developing the most popular arcade game of all time. Toru Iwatani designed the game over the short time of 18 months (yeah back then one guy could write a game on his own, imagine that today?). Iwatani drew inspiration for his game via a famous Japanese phrase known as 'Paku-Paku Taberu'. This odd sounding name (odd only because it's not English of course) is symbolic of the noise made when one opens and closes their mouth rapidly. After a short 18 months, the game was complete and launched as 'Puck Man'. Strangely enough, it was NOT a big success after launch.
Namco and Iwatani may have developed 'Puck Man' in Japan, but it was Midway who marketed to the United States and saw sales fly through the roof. Nobody had ever seen a game like it before. Renamed to Pac-Man in the US, it became an instant hit. It caught everyone by surprise and even the so called experts overlooked Pac-Man while reviewing arcade games (don't the experts always do things like that?). Keep in mind that we're talking Arcades here not consoles. Atari came after this.
The company Namco gets the credit for developing the most popular arcade game of all time. Toru Iwatani designed the game over the short time of 18 months (yeah back then one guy could write a game on his own, imagine that today?). Iwatani drew inspiration for his game via a famous Japanese phrase known as 'Paku-Paku Taberu'. This odd sounding name (odd only because it's not English of course) is symbolic of the noise made when one opens and closes their mouth rapidly. After a short 18 months, the game was complete and launched as 'Puck Man'. Strangely enough, it was NOT a big success after launch.
Namco and Iwatani may have developed 'Puck Man' in Japan, but it was Midway who marketed to the United States and saw sales fly through the roof. Nobody had ever seen a game like it before. Renamed to Pac-Man in the US, it became an instant hit. It caught everyone by surprise and even the so called experts overlooked Pac-Man while reviewing arcade games (don't the experts always do things like that?). Keep in mind that we're talking Arcades here not consoles. Atari came after this.
Number Maze Mac Game Online Play
- Cool Math Games You'll find these free online mazes get a little tougher and are perfect for kids in grades 1-3. Medium Maze #1: Use your mouse as a pen to get from the start to the finish of this online maze. Medium Maze #2: Another intermediate online maze where you'll need to get to the finish by using your mouse.
- Q: Can I play tank games with friends? A: It depends on the game. With online games you can. Q: How many players can play in such kind of games? A: In modern games there are no restrictions on the number of users in the game. Though since these games are session games, in most cases the limit is 30 players in one session.
Number Maze Game
Kind of like a 'Candy Crush' game for math gamers, 2048 is a highly stimulating, interactive, sliding-tile brain teaser game where you combine together pairs of identical number tiles in order to continuously double them up – with the overall goal of creating a tile of the number 2048.