Gallery: Pac-Man Turns 35 Today. So Here, Have Some Nostalgia
Bob Olsen/Toronto Star via Getty Images01More than a toy: This telephone designed to look like Pac-Man not only works but features one-button
Before texting, kids had to talk to their friends via a device called a "telephone." This *Pac-Man* shaped one is an undeniably cool piece of retro technology that was probably agonizing to press up against one's head for any length of time.
Gary Null/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank02The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
On *The Tonight Show*'s June 10, 1982 episode, Pac-Man devoured host Johnny Carson. RIP.
Tony Korody/The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images03Teenage boy sitting in mouth of giant sc
The caption that accompanied this classic image read simply, "Teenage boy sitting in mouth of giant sculpture resembling Pac-Man character."
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How many obsolete 1980's concepts can you find in this photo? We count 4: *Pac-Man* gum, Strawberry Shortcake, burgers in styrofoam containers, and the U.S. Postal Service.
ClassicStock / Alamy051980s TEEN GIRL WEAR BASEBALL CAP PLAYING MS PAC MAN VIDEO GAME IN ARCADE
*Pac-Man* designer Toru Iwatani created the game in hopes that more women would play, and succeeded not just in Japan but on a global scale.
Roger Ressmeyer/CORBIS06People Playing Pac-Man Video Game
David Sudnow, author of an early book on videogame culture called *Pilgrim in the Microworld*, plays a cocktail-style *Pac* machine in Berkeley, California on April 8, 1982.
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Pop music duo Buckner and Garcia had a surprising hit with their novelty song "Pac-Man Fever," which peaked at #9 on the Billboard Hot 100 in March 1982 and sold over a million copies that year.
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