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>The point of the game was to attract girls >Gaming in the late 1970s was pretty much exclusively a men's club. Toru Iwatani, creator of the game, wanted to ch
by Oatseller 11y ago
>The point of the game was to attract girls
>Gaming in the late 1970s was pretty much exclusively a men's club. Toru Iwatani, creator of the game, wanted to change this, creating something that could appeal to both women and families, he said.
>"The reason I created Pac-Man was because we wanted to attract female gamers," he said at a panel during the 2011 Game Developers Conference. "Back then, there were no home games. People had to go to the arcade center to play games. That was a playground for boys. It was dirty and smelly. So we wanted to include female players, so it would become cleaner and brighter."
- Oatseller 11y agoUS Today has a few more facts http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/gaming/2015/05/22/pac-man-35/27771695/ http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/gaming/2015/05/22/pac-man...