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    You can pay your last respects one quarter at a time (Masaya Nakamura)

    Founder of Namco and "Father of Pac-Man" Masaya Nakamura has died at the age of 91.

    The title comes from Alan Jackson's song "Prop me up beside the jukebox", but seemed appropriate for a video game pioneer.
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    I think that was actually Joe Diffie...

    Makes me wanna play some Pac-Man now...
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      Did you know that the original name for Pac-Man was Puck-Man? You'd think it was because he looks like a hockey puck but it actually comes from the Japanese phrase "Paku-Paku" which means to flap one's mouth open and closed. They changed it because they thought Puck-Man would be too easy to vandalize, you know, like people could just scratch off the P and turn it into an F or whatever.
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        Quoth Mr Hero View Post
        Did you know that the original name for Pac-Man was Puck-Man? You'd think it was because he looks like a hockey puck but it actually comes from the Japanese phrase "Paku-Paku" which means to flap one's mouth open and closed. They changed it because they thought Puck-Man would be too easy to vandalize, you know, like people could just scratch off the P and turn it into an F or whatever.
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          May he rest in peace. Heads out to find a Ms PacMan unit with the speed set to maximum

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