22 May 2010

http://www.joyamo.com/news/

While the king of search engine Google has its own logo transforming into a real arcade game, during the thirty years of PacMan game site online JoyAmo.com has created a special tournament to be held among all members the site.

From May 22 to 25, in fact, all users can participate in the free special Sit & Go tournament with a chance to play 5 games to remake the game that drove him crazy generations.
The points scored in five matches will be added together and who have achieved the best performance will be named king of the community well and will get 10,000 tokens reward (the virtual currency of the site)

To participate in the tournament just free access to the dedicated page and register. Click here to enter

But now we talk a bit 'in the history of Pacman. Created by Tohru Iwatani, Namco programmer, and published for the first time by Midway Games in 1980 using arcade arcade, Pac-Man soon gained great popularity and subsequent years, under the label "Namco", were gradually published several versions for almost all consoles and computers, keeping up to its reputation today as a classic gaming.

The origin of Pac-Man is quite unique. It appears that the idea to Tohru Iwatani said during a dinner with some friends watching a pizza that had been removed a slice. Fourteen months after that dinner, namely 22 May 1980, thanks to a development team of eight technicians, divided equally between hardware and software, and led by Shigeo Funaki, which includes the musician Toshio Kai, was born the first Pac- Man

Brazil, the game is called by the boys Like-Like. This name means "eat, eat." In Spain, however, the game is called Comecocos (Eat ghosts).