30 Jan
2017
30 Jan
'17
11:01 p.m.
A sad day: The father of Pac-Man, Masaya Nakamura, passed away. I
remember playing this on very early microcomputers.
Happy computing!
Murray :)
31 Jan
31 Jan
12:28 a.m.
A sad day: The father of Pac-Man, Masaya Nakamura, passed away. I
remember playing this on very early microcomputers.
How about some credit where credit is due, and not rewriting history
willynilly. Toru Iwatani was the designer (not Nakamura) of Pac-Man,
Shigeo Funaki did the code and Toshio Kai the music. Nakamura was
simply the man behind the company, not the father of Pac-Man.
2:20 a.m.
A sad day: The father of Pac-Man, Masaya Nakamura,
passed away. I
remember playing this on very early microcomputers.
On Mon, 30 Jan 2017, Alfred
M. Szmidt wrote:
How about some credit where credit is due, and not
rewriting history
willynilly. Toru Iwatani was the designer (not Nakamura) of Pac-Man,
Shigeo Funaki did the code and Toshio Kai the music. Nakamura was
simply the man behind the company, not the father of Pac-Man.
According to Wikipedia (usual unreliable source), it was Midway, who
changed the name from Puck Man to Pac-Man in 1980. (an expectation that
vandals would chnge the 'P' to an 'F')
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