Wednesday, April 29, 2015

THE SORDID ORIGIN OF "PAC-MAN"


The pronunciation for the Japanese word for "munch" is "puck." The U.S. version of the "Pac-Man" video game was going to be named "Puck-Man" based on the fact that the main character proceeds around the screen munching everything. This designation was changed to the current version of "Pac-Man" out of the bizarre belief on the part of the makers of the game that some American teenagers would intentionally mispronounce the original version of the name.

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