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Pac-Man is a single player survival survival game. It was developed by Namco and was released on May 22, 1980. It received mostly positive reviews from both critics and players.

Pac-Man is a 1980 maze action video game developed and released by Namco for arcades. It is considered one of the classics of the medium, virtually synonymous with video games, and an icon of 1980s popular culture. Players control Pac-Man, who must eat all the dots inside an enclosed maze while avoiding four colored ghosts. Eating large flashing dots called Power Pellets causes the ghosts to tempo…

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Looking for games like Pac-Man? Here are top survival survival recommendations, selected from player-similarity data — start with Pac-Man, RandomPac or Pac-Mazing.

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Pac-Man is a survival survival game.

Pac-Man was released on May 22, 1980.

Pac-Man was developed by Namco.

Pac-Man has received mostly positive reviews from players. Most players disliked Pac-Man for its grinding.

Pac-Man is a single player game.

Similar games include Pac-Man, RandomPac, Pac-Mazing, Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures, qrth-phyl and others.