Pac-Man 99
2021 video game
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| 2023 | 7-Eleven launched a comprehensive Pac-Man themed marketing campaign, including branded coffee (Clyde's Coffee Blend), Slurpee flavors (Blinky's Cherry & Inky's Blueberry Raz), and a special Pinky's Strawberry White Chocolate Cappuccino. |
| 2022 | Plans for a live-action Pac-Man film are revived at Wayfarer Studios, based on an idea by Chuck Williams. |
| 2021 | Announced during Nintendo Direct that Hamster Corporation would release Pac-Man for Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4 as part of its Arcade Archives series. |
| 2020 | A Pac-Man-themed downloadable content package was released for Minecraft to commemorate the game's 40th anniversary. |
| June 18 2020 | Guinness World Records reversed its previous decision and reinstated Billy Mitchell's 1999 Pac-Man perfect score performance. |
| 2018 | The film Relaxer features Pac-Man as a central plot element, focusing on a character attempting to beat the game before the year 2000 problem. |
| 2018 | Guinness World Records initially announced it would no longer recognize Billy Mitchell's first perfect Pac-Man score. |
| 2017 | Pac-Man is referenced and makes an appearance in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 and the Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy video game. |
| April 1 2017 | Google created a playable Pac-Man game on Google Maps as an April Fools' Day joke. |
| August 21 2016 | During the 2016 Summer Olympics closing ceremony, Pac-Man and the ghosts were featured in a video segment racing and eating dots on a running track, promoting Tokyo as the 2020 Summer Olympics host. |
| 2015 | Pac-Man appears in the film Pixels, with creator Toru Iwatani portrayed by Denis Akiyama and making a cameo as an arcade technician. |
| 2015 | The Strong National Museum of Play inducted Pac-Man into its World Video Game Hall of Fame. |
| 2013 | The iOS version was rebranded as Pac-Man + Tournaments, featuring new mazes and leaderboards. |
| 2012 | Pac-Man was inducted into the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City as part of the initial selection of fourteen video games. |
| 2010 | Pac-Man is referenced by name in the film Scott Pilgrim vs. the World. |
| June 3 2010 | At the NLGD Festival of Games, Toru Iwatani officially received the Guinness World Records certificate for Pac-Man's coin-operated arcade machine record. |
| May 21 2010 | Google created a playable Pac-Man logo on its homepage to celebrate the game's 30th anniversary, estimated to have been played by over 1 billion people. |
| April 2010 | Soap Creative, Microsoft, and Namco-Bandai launched World's Biggest Pac-Man, a multiplayer browser-based game with user-created, interlocking mazes. |
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