Pac-Man

Pac-Man is an arcade game developed by Namco and first released in Japan on May 22, 1980. While Namco was it's creator, Midway released the arcade in North America. It was widely popular during its time, as most games during that time were either Pong copies or space shooters on the Atari 2600 like Space Invaders or Asteroids. It had a new genre of gaming, and is one of the longest-running video game franchises from the golden age of video games.

Gameplay
As this game was released in the early '80s, there was no storyline as no games had one yet. For gameplay, the player takes control of Pac-Man and had to eat all pac-dots in each level while avoid four ghosts trying to take down Pac-Man. The four Ghosts are Inky, Blinky,Pinky,Clyde, which are just their nicknames. When Pac-Man touches any of those ghosts, he will die. However, if Pac-Man eats a "Power Pellet", the ghosts will turn blue and Pac-Man will gain the ability to eat the four ghosts temporarily. The pellets are located near the four corners of the level. The enemies are located in a box at the middle of the maze and they will escape to hunt down Pac-Man. When the enemies are eaten, their bodies will disappear and they will become a pair of eyes as they return to the box. While eating the ghost, Pac-Man will gain points which will go up by 2000 depending on how many ghosts he eats. There is also fruit near the box, which can give more points. There are 256 levels, with the last level having a software bug and not being completed.

Characters
Pac-Man - The main character of the game, he has to eat all of the Pac-Pellets before the ghosts take him down.

Inky - His real name being Bashful, he is the blue ghost trying to take down Pac-Man.

Blinky - His real name being Shadow, he is the red ghost taking down Pac-Man.

Pinky - Her real name being Speedy, she is the pink ghost taking down Pac-Man.

Clyde - Real name is Pokey, he is the orange ghost whose nick name doesn't end with "ky'.

Trivia

 * Pac-Man (and this is 100% true) was inspired by a pizza pie missing a slice.
 * There is a rare glitch where Pac-Man can surprisingly go through ghosts.