Pac-Man (disambiguation)
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Pac-Man
is a popular 1980 arcade game by Namco and the name of its titular character.
Pac-Man may also refer to:
Pac-Man is often used as a nickname to refer to the following people:
Pac-Man
is an arcade game developed by Namco and licensed for distribution in the United States by Midway, first released in Japan on May 22, 1980. Immensely popular from its original release to the present day, Pac-Man is considered one of the classics of the medium, virtually synonymous with video games,...
is a popular 1980 arcade game by Namco and the name of its titular character.
Pac-Man may also refer to:
- Pac-Man (Atari 2600)Pac-Man (Atari 2600)In 1982, Atari Inc. released a port of Namco's hit arcade game Pac-Man for its Atari 2600 video game console. Like the original arcade version, the player controls the titular character with a joystick...
, a famous 1982 port of the arcade game for the Atari 2600 - Pac-Man (series), the original game and its sequels and spinoffs
- Pac-Man (TV series)Pac-Man (TV series)Pac-Man is an animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera based on the video game Pac-Man by Namco, which premiered on ABC and ran from 1982 to 1983. During the first airing of the show, the large number of advertisers sponsoring it caused commercial breaks to be double their normal length...
, the short-lived cartoon series - Pac-Man (album)Pac-Man (album)Pac-Man is a 1992 EP by electronic music artist Richard D. James, released under the pseudonym of Power-Pill. The tracks on the album are remixes of the musical themes in the Pac-Man arcade game....
, the 1992 EP produced by Aphex Twin (Richard D. James) under the Power Pill alias, which sampled heavily from the game's audio - "Pacman", an unreleased song by "Weird Al" Yankovic"Weird Al" YankovicAlfred Matthew "Weird Al" Yankovic is an American singer-songwriter, music producer, accordionist, actor, comedian, writer, satirist, and parodist. Yankovic is known for his humorous songs that make light of popular culture and that often parody specific songs by contemporary musical acts...
, and a parody of The Beatles' song "Taxman" - Pacman frog, the name given to several varieties of frog with large mouths and abdomens
- Pacman Nebula, a region of space formally known as NCG 281
- Lilac chaserLilac chaserLilac chaser is a visual illusion, also known as the Pac-Man illusion. It consists of 12 lilac , blurred discs arranged in a circle , around a small black, central cross on a grey background...
, an optical phenomenon also known as the Pacman illusion - Pac-Man defensePac-Man defenseThe Pac-Man defense is a defensive option to stave off a hostile takeover in which a company that is threatened with a hostile takeover "turns the tables" by attempting to acquire its would-be buyer....
, a legal strategy where a smaller company fights off a takeover by purchasing the larger company - Pacman (package manager), the package management system of Arch Linux
- slang for a coin acceptor
- The codename of a covert propaganda operation undertaken by the South African military to discredit the anti-apartheid movement by the International Freedom FoundationInternational Freedom FoundationThe International Freedom Foundation , was a self-described anti-communist group established in Washington, D.C. founded in 1986 by former lobbyist Jack Abramoff. Its purported aim was to promote individual and collective freedoms worldwide: freedom of thought; free speech; free association; free...
- Operation Pacman, a campaign enacted by the New Zealand Ministry of Fisheries in 2002 to apprehend illegal paua and rock lobster poachers
- Team PacmanTeam PacmanTeam Pacman was a heel professional wrestling tag team in the Total Nonstop Action Wrestling promotion. The team, originally consisting of National Football League player Adam "Pacman" Jones and his partner Ron "The Truth" Killings, held the TNA World Tag Team Championship once, but when Jones'...
, a wrestling team
Pac-Man is often used as a nickname to refer to the following people:
- Manny PacquiaoManny PacquiaoEmmanuel "Manny" Dapidran Pacquiao, PLH is a Filipino professional boxer and politician. He is the first eight-division world champion; having won six world titles, as well as the first to win the lineal championship in four different weight classes. He was named "Fighter of the Decade" for the...
(born 1978), Filipino boxer and politician - Adam Jones (American football)Adam Jones (American football)Adam "Pac-Man" Bernard Jones is an American cornerback and return specialist who is currently playing for the Cincinnati Bengals. He was drafted in the first round with the sixth-overall pick in the 2005 NFL Draft by the Tennessee Titans. He played college football at West Virginia.Jones has also...
(born 1983), National Football League player - MC PacMan, a member of Portuguese hip-hop group Da WeaselDa WeaselDa Weasel was a Portuguese hip-hop band from Almada, fronted by MCs Pacman and Virgul. They were one of the oldest hip-hop projects in Portugal, having been created in 1993 and terminated in 2010, and notorious for being a full session band, instead of relying on a DJ and samples...
- Danny McGavin, a fictional police officer portrayed by Sean Penn in the 1988 film ColorsColors (film)Colors is a 1988 police procedural crime film starring Sean Penn and Robert Duvall and directed by Dennis Hopper. The story takes place in South Central Los Angeles, and is about Bob Hodges , an experienced LAPD Community Resources Against Street Hoodlums Police Officer III, and his rookie partner,...