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==References== {{reflist|refs= <ref name="salon">{{cite news |last=Green |first=Chris |date=June 17, 2002 |url=http://www.salon.com/ent/masterpiece/2002/06/17/pac_man/print.html |title=Pac-Man |work=Salon.com |access-date=February 12, 2006 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051225025334/http://www.salon.com/ent/masterpiece/2002/06/17/pac_man/print.html |archive-date=December 25, 2005}}</ref> <ref name="timemag">{{cite news |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,921174,00.html |title=Pac-Man Fever |work=Time Magazine |date=April 5, 1982 |access-date=October 15, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110122151527/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0%2C9171%2C921174%2C00.html |archive-date=January 22, 2011 |quote=Columbia Records' Pac-Man Fever ... was No. 9 on the Billboard Hot 100 last week. |url-status=dead}}</ref> <ref name="Ultimate History">{{cite book|last=Kent |first=Steven L. |author-link=Steven L. Kent |title=The Ultimate History of Video Games: The Story Behind the Craze that Touched our Lives and Changed the World |date=2002 |publisher=Random House International |location=New York |isbn=978-0-7615-3643-7 |oclc=59416169 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PTrcTeAqeaEC |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160624183529/https://books.google.com/books?id=PTrcTeAqeaEC&printsec=frontcover |archive-date=June 24, 2016 }}</ref>{{rp|page=143}} <ref name="CNN-Morris">{{cite news |title=Pac Man turns 25: A pizza dinner yields a cultural phenomenon β and millions of dollars in quarters. He also loved to eat a lot of pellets. |date=May 10, 2005 |author=Chris Morris |publisher=CNN |url=https://money.cnn.com/2005/05/10/commentary/game_over/column_gaming/index.htm |access-date=April 23, 2011 |quote=In the late 1990s, Twin Galaxies, which tracks video game world record scores, visited used game auctions and counted how many times the average Pac Man machine had been played. Based on those findings and the total number of machines that were manufactured, the organization said it believed the game had been played more than 10 billion times in the 20th century. |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110515011836/http://money.cnn.com/2005/05/10/commentary/game_over/column_gaming/index.htm |archive-date=May 15, 2011}}</ref> <ref name=nlgd>{{cite web |author=Martijn MΓΌller |title=Pac-Man wereldrecord beklonken en het hele verhaal |url=http://www.ng-gamer.nl/game-nieuws/11117_pacman-wereldrecord-beklonken-en-het-hele-verhaal/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120227102904/http://www.ng-gamer.nl/game-nieuws/11117_pacman-wereldrecord-beklonken-en-het-hele-verhaal/ |archive-date=February 27, 2012 |language=nl |publisher=[[NG-Gamer]] |date=June 3, 2010 |access-date=November 3, 2015}}</ref> <!-- Unused references: <ref name="upi">{{cite web |url=http://www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/2010/05/22/Pac-Man-still-going-strong-at-30/UPI-74821274544243/ |title=Pac-Man still going strong at 30 |publisher=UPI.com |date=May 22, 2010 |access-date=May 22, 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121022110136/http://www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/2010/05/22/Pac-Man-still-going-strong-at-30/UPI-74821274544243/ |archive-date=October 22, 2012}}</ref> <ref name="wired">{{cite news |url=https://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2007/10/dayintech_1010 |work=Wired |title=Oct. 10, 1979: Pac-Man Brings Gaming into Pleistocene Era |date=October 10, 2007 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131207034222/http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2007/10/dayintech_1010 |archive-date=December 7, 2013}}</ref> <ref name="gamespotsyn">{{cite web |url=http://www.gamespot.com/ds/action/pacnroll/review.html?tag=rvwBody |title=Pac 'n Roll Review |publisher=GameSpot.com |date=August 23, 2005 |access-date=May 22, 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110628234503/http://www.gamespot.com/ds/action/pacnroll/review.html?tag=rvwBody |archive-date=June 28, 2011}}</ref> <ref name="video game explosion">{{Cite journal |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=to5zEwOC9BcC&pg=PA74 |title=The video game explosion: A history from PONG to PlayStation and beyond |isbn=978-0-313-33868-7 |last=Wolf |first=Mark J. P. |year=2008}}</ref> <ref name="gamerevolution">http://www.gamerevolution.com/features/13510-world-of-warcraft-leads-industry-with-nearly-10-billion-in-revenue {{Bare URL inline|date=May 2022}}</ref> <ref name="Early, Chas; bt.com">{{cite web |url=https://www.home.bt.com/news/on-this-day/may-22-1980-iconic-video-game-character-pac-man-makes-his-first-appearance-11363982439694 |title=May 22, 1980: Iconic video game character Pac-Man makes his first appearance |author=Early, Chas |publisher=bt.com |date=May 21, 2019 |access-date=June 16, 2019}}</ref> <ref name="bandainamco">{{cite web |url=http://www.bandainamcogames.co.jp/bnours/hotnews/index.php?id=21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071230012914/http://www.bandainamcogames.co.jp/bnours/hotnews/index.php?id=21 |archive-date=December 30, 2007 |title=Bandai Namco press release for 25th Anniversary Edition |language=ja |quote={{lang|ja|2005εΉ΄5ζ22ζ₯γ§ηθͺ25ε¨εΉ΄γθΏγγγγγγ―γγ³γ}} ("Pac-Man celebrates his 25th anniversary on May 22, 2005", seen in image caption) |author=Namco Bandai Games Inc. |publisher=bandainamcogames.co.jp/ |date=June 2, 2005 |access-date=October 10, 2007}}</ref> <ref name="wired_namcodispute">{{cite news |url=http://archive.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2007/10/dayintech_1010 |title=Oct. 10, 1979: Pac-Man Brings Gaming into Pleistocene Era |quote=[Bandai Namco] puts the date at May 22, 1980 and is planning an official 25th anniversary celebration next year. |first=Tony |last=Long |work=Wired |date=October 10, 2007 |access-date=October 10, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140911050643/http://archive.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2007/10/dayintech_1010 |archive-date=September 11, 2014}}</ref> <ref name="classicgaming">{{cite web |url=http://classicgaming.gamespy.com/View.php?view=Articles.Detail&id=249 |title=Pac-Man: The Phenomenon: Part 1 |author=Goldberg, Marty |publisher=Arcadegaming.us |date=January 31, 2002 |access-date=July 31, 2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071016203822/http://classicgaming.gamespy.com/View.php?view=Articles.Detail&id=249 |archive-date=October 16, 2007}}</ref> <ref name="Brill-120">{{Cite book |title=America in the 1980s |author=Marlene Targ Brill |publisher=[[Lerner Publishing Group|Twenty-First Century Books]] |year=2009 |isbn=978-0-8225-7602-0 |page=120 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NjmhJKkoKW0C&pg=PT120 |access-date=May 1, 2011 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160418054516/https://books.google.com/books?id=NjmhJKkoKW0C&pg=PT120 |archive-date=April 18, 2016}}</ref> --> }}
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