The key to any good arcade port is authenticity – the game should feel as identical ... would scrape a disassembled version of the original Pac Man Z80 code, look up the equivalent 6809 CPU ...

The first Pac-Man machine was placed in a cinema in the trendy Tokyo district of Shibuya. It would go on to become the most successful arcade game of all time. The hero – shaped like a mouth ope ...

In the original Pac-Man (released in October 1980 as an arcade game in Japan), the ghosts, also known as the "Ghost Gang," each had unique AI traits that contributed to the game's enduring appeal.

As one of the more iconic bugs in gaming history, reaching level 256 in the Pac-Man arcade game would cause half of the screen to be rendered in a jumbled mess. The left of the screen would appear ...