Who invented Pac-Man and when?

PacMan was invented by twenty-seven-year-old Turn Iwatani in 1980.

Iwatani worked for Namco Limited of Japan, a producer of video games and computer software.

Pac-Man is an icon of 1980s pop culture, and is considered universally as a classic video game.

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