The Paley Center for Media in NYC is celebrating 45 years of Pac-Man with a limited time exhibit celebrating his enduring ...

Nostalgia for so-called “retro games” has been kicking around since the late ’90s, so it might seem shocking that the best-selling home video game for much of the 1980s didn’t get an official ...

CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The ...

Jake Peterson is Lifehacker’s Tech Editor, and has been covering tech news and how-tos for nearly a decade. His team covers all things technology, including AI, smartphones, computers, game consoles, ...

2022's Pac-Man World Re-Pac rebuilt the 1999 PS1 classic from the ground up and cleaned up a lot of the original game's rough edgeswhile delivering graphics that went far beyond even what was imagined ...

Pac-Man Mega Tunnel Battle is an always online multiplayer game, due to its nature as a battle royale experience, and remained so in both its Stadia and console/PC releases. Up to 64 people all ...

The original Pac-Man World series was a sixth-generation hit that saw three 3D platformers hit the market and manage to stand out in a crowded field thanks to expanding on the Pac-Man universe and put ...

This Pac-Man game was created as a learning project following a YouTube tutorial. The project helped me practice Java fundamentals, object-oriented programming (OOP), and GUI development using the ...

On the Thursday, Sept. 25, 2025 episode of The Excerpt podcast: When Pac-Man first made its way into arcades back in 1980, it took the gaming industry by storm. Chris Morris, an independent journalist ...

A simple circle colored yellow with a piece taken out, and four colored “ghosts,” sparked a cultural phenomenon in 1980 that remains 45 years later. Even if you’ve never played PAC-MAN, the ...

Pac-Man first gobbled power pellets in arcades back in 1980, and the little yellow hero is still hungry. To mark the milestone, Atari and Bandai Namco created the Atari x Pac-Man Collection, a lineup ...

Celebrating his 45th birthday this year, the yellow eating machine revolutionised video games – and has even been used in science. What has made him and his adventures so addictive? The iconic ...