Today is the 35th birthday of Pac-Man

On may, 22, 1980 Pac-Man, one of the most successful arcade games ever was first published, so important that the image of Pac-Man is often used as the icon that represents the whole videogames’world. It is said that the idea of Pac-Man was conceived by Tohru Iwatani while eating a pizza: in fact, Pac-Man is similar to a pizza without a slice. The arcade was marketed for 7 years and during that time it sold more than 300,000 cabinets, without counting the copies of the convertions for almost every computer and game console of that time and the releases published in the last years. In other words, 35 years old and still remaining on the forefront: happy birthday, Pac-Man!