Excerpt:
The world was created in six days. On the seventh day there was Pac-Man.
OK, so it's not that extreme. But it does feel that way. Pac-Man goes back further than almost any other game in history. If you've never played Pac-Man (or one of its clones), you'll be hard-pressed to call yourself a "real" gamer. Now that I've insulted scores of video-game addicts around the world, I can sit back, relax, and wait for the flames to pour in.
Annotation:
This site is devoted to the history of the Pac Man video game. Eight of the ten pages detail the development of Pac Man software programs between 1980 and 2001. These pages include a little information about the dozens of games that were released over these two decades and most include thumbnail images of the various games. Two other pages are reserved for an interview with an expert Pac Man player and a page of images of Pac Man spin offs in popular culture - Pac Man became an automobile, a cereal, a deck of cards, an ashtray . . .. This site is mostly entertaining and not deep scholarship, however, historians of video games in popular culture may find the information here to be useful.