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How Pac-Man Revolutionized Gaming (2020)
The original game is at the root of a rich design tradition, one that goes well beyond detailed graphics and fluid controls.
But unlike film’s metalanguage, which we’ve been discussing for a century, we are just starting to understand the fundamentals of video games — how their operations create meaning and shape our playing experiences. Spacewar!, developed at MIT in the early 1960s, featured two space ships that could (fatally) collide both with a star at the center of the screen and with missiles fired by the other player. As Dennis Lee, the director of brand marketing at the U.S. division Bandai Namco Entertainment, the company that created Pac-Man, told the radio show Marketplace: “ Eating is just a very universal, humanistic characteristic.
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