Video games, and goodbye to the father of Pac-Man: died Masaya Nakamura – Messenger

It was the era of the Atari, the first console and video games we used to play in the cabinets of the bar next to the pinball machine. It was in the early ’80s, those of the dawn of video games. Died at 91 years of age the entrepreneur japanese Masaya Nakamura, the “father” of the video game Pac-Man, the most popular and iconic of all times, among the most popular in the world. This was announced by the group Bandai-Namco, the fact that the death dates back to January 22. Nakamura had founded in 1955 his company, which later became the Namco, who in 2005 merged with the japanese giant of the games Bandai. In 1980 he launched Pac-Man, conceived by the author of the game Tohru Iwatani, who gave life to the small yell ow ball eater of dots, and fruit, fleeing from the ghosts.

Nakamura chose the word “Cap” to represent the “munching” Pac-Man of its prey. The yellow ball came out on the market at a time when there were few video games competitors, from Space Invaders, but it is estimated that it has been played over ten billion times, becoming an icon of popular culture. Pac-Man, the extremely voracious yellow ball icon of Arcade games, in may 2015, she celebrated 35 years. Birthday, Sony Pictures celebrated with events around the world, from Tokyo to Chicago, from New York to Paris. In July of the same year, the output of Pixels, the 3d film directed by Chris Columbus Adam Sandler, Peter Dinklage, Josh Gad, and Michelle Monaghan, distributed by Warner Bros. Entertainment Italia.

Pac-Man is a game from the operation really very simple: the player must control a yellow ball that opens and closes the mouth called Pac-Man, and let her eat all of the dots present neatly in the maze drawn on the screen, once all the dots you advance to the next level then it is not an exact copy of the previous one. To hinder the player there will be ghosts, which every time will be able to touch Pac-Man will lose one of three lives of the player. Finished making the screw, it ends the game. To facilitate the task to the player, in the four corners of the maze there are four special pills, called power pills), eating which the player can take revenge and make it vulnerable for a few seconds, the ghosts can be eaten by Pac-Man. Once eaten, the ghosts will return to the base (at the center of the labyrinth) where you regenerate and return to hunting Pac-Man. Everything that Pac-Man can eat during the game is recorded in points. Reached 10,000 you get an extra life.